• Gift Membership
  • Sign In
  • Become A Member
  • Home
  • Common Ground
  • The Latest
  • Members-Only
  • Video
  • Eco India
  • The Reel
  • Magazine
You are currently on the AMP version of Scroll

The AMP version of Scroll does not offer all of our membership benefits. To unlock your full benefits, please switch to the main website.

Get the app
ANDROID iOS
Eco India

Eco India: Can growing your own vegetables be therapeutic?

In each of Kerala's 14 districts over 20,000 home farms have sprouted owing to decreasing availability of locally produced nutritious foods.

Scroll Staff
Jul 31, 2022 · 08:55 am
Get the app
ANDROID iOS

You’ve read Scroll.

Now help sustain it

Scroll is funded by readers, not corporate owners. If you believe our work matters, support our newsroom. Become a member today!

Membership Benefits
No ads
Evening Edition newsletter
Members-only events
Weekly Edition newsletter
Merchandise
Help design new products
Editorial meet-up invitation

We’re not driven by clicks or corporate interests – just honest, independent reporting. Keep us going. Support Scroll today!

Membership Benefits
No ads
Evening Edition newsletter
Members-only events
Weekly Edition newsletter
Merchandise
Help design new products
Editorial meet-up invitation
We welcome your comments at letters@scroll.in.
  • eco india
  • urban farming
  • grun agro

Related

Eco India, Episode 323: What does survival mean for those living on the climate frontlines

Video

  • How heat affects you depends on your pincode

    Yesterday · 06:05 pm
  • Does Abhijeet Dipke’s popularity signal a new age of Dalit leaders?

    Jun 05, 2026 · 07:47 pm
  • Eco India, Episode 323: What does survival mean for those living on the climate frontlines

    Jun 02, 2026 · 05:45 pm

Latest

  • Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez granted bail

    18 minutes ago
  • Bengal to remove ‘dham’ from Digha Jagannath temple name

    19 minutes ago
  • TMC’s Sushmita Dev resigns as Rajya Sabha MP, quits party

    An hour ago

The Reel

  • ‘Alpha’ teaser: Alia Bhatt plays the first of an elite assassination squad

    3 hours ago
  • Bimal Roy’s ‘Do Bigha Zamin’ and the never-ending race against poverty

    4 hours ago
  • Watch: In ‘Enola Holmes 3’, a wedding is complicated by the kidnapping of Sherlock Holmes

    Yesterday · 06:16 pm

Magazine

  • The Indian freedom fighter who ended his career as a captain on ‘Star Trek’

    Jun 06, 2026 · 11:30 am
  • Judi Singh was the ‘velvet voice’ of Canadian jazz – until history left her behind

    May 30, 2026 · 11:30 am
  • The Muslim maestro at the heart of a Hindu temple tradition

    May 28, 2026 · 11:30 am