What Fruits and Vegetables Teach Us

 Maybe we can learn from 

- a Pumpkin how to be well-rounded.

- a Brinjal (eggplant), that Purple can drive away the blues

- a Custard Apple (Seetaphal), that you can be sweet in spite of having Pock marks

- a Bitter Gourd on how to survive and thrive by combining with an onion to drive away your bitterness

- an Orange on how to be sweet and tangy at the same time, just like Life.

Maybe you can add a few more.. 

Offsite at Jain Irrigation Jalgaon

 We went for an offsite with colleagues from the Prestige group. Destination was a 6 hour ride by bus to Jain Hills, Jalgaon, where the pioneers of drip irrrigation and other agriprocessing methods are located. Very fruitful -literally. They process fruits, and spices too. Pics from the outing and plant visits..

Gandhi Teerth on the campus is a tribute to the Mahatma..

Morning walk..

Breakfast..

Tour-fruity!

Plant tissue culture..

Bhavarlal Jain the founder, in pic behind us

We also found our Spice Girls in the process! Last pic, above!

Guava Chronicles

 The guava tree in my Indore home has been pretty bountiful this year, maybe as a farewell to me. Anyway, here are some shots, along with a Guava thief caught red-handed :) 

Organic Food Mela

Went to an organic food mela (gathering) that happens in Indore every Sunday, thanks to a friend in the know. For anyone interested, it is just off the bypass, close to Vidyasagar college. Good time to go there is around 9.30 am, though it is on for a couple of hours after that too.

Organic vegetables are available, from growers who travel some distance to be there. There are also packaged organic products such as spices and grains, honey, etc..in an indoor display. A band also played a range of songs while we were there, some good and some not so. But the ambience is nice, and you can always have some breakfast (poha, thalipeeth, bhajiya) and tea, or cane juice. And some home-made goodies. Or exotic juices. In fact, you could go there just for the food, though the range is limited.

I think the fruits range sold can be improved to include some more seasonal ones (we got some Ber, which were nice), but otherwise a nice place to chill out for an hour or so.