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Pacha Manga Pachadi This one is bound to be a pleasant surprise if you’ve never tried it before. We have a Mango tree that gives fruit that aren’t particularly sweet nor tasty as fruit in the regular sense. So instead, we pick them before they ripen i.e. when they have grown to size, but are…

Amorphophallus paeoniifolius The Elephant Foot Yam is known as ‘Karunai Kizhangu’ in Tamil, or ‘Suran’ in Hindi. It is a large, round tuber which thrives in tropical climates and is much revered and popularly consumed in most parts of India for its nutritive value. It gets its name from the fact that the whole yams…

Cucumber seeds are fairly easy to obtain and store, and hence, are a good start to your Road Back to Nature. firstly you must wait till the cucumber to ripen on the plant, when it is ripe-You simply need to cut the fully cucumber vertically in half, and remove the seeds from the centre (the…

If one has ever wondered what one could do to swiftly improve one’s immune system, and keep it well prepared for responding to possible viral attacks, there is hardly any natural dietary supplement better for that purpose than Amla juice. In fact, according to one review, after the Barbados Cherry, Amla is the second richest…

Valuing traditional recipes obviously allows us to reap the rewards of millenia of culinary evolution. This recipe has emerged from this Bioregion with what grows here, and what is suitable for the climate here. Kara Kuzhambu has a history in that traditionally there were no fridges, and the use of Tamarind preserved the food up…

Sambar Vengayam Over time, Onions have become one of the most used vegetables in popular, mainstream Indian cuisine, but those who know it, know how much more flavourful the smaller bulbs, or shallots are. And the superior flavor is not the singular advantage, it is also about the ease with which one can begin cultivating…

At Solitude Farm we dry Neem leaves, grind them into a powder and bottle it for sale – ready to use. Having the powder handy makes it easy for people to consume and use Neem on a daily basis. Use Neem powder internally for cleansing and purifying your stomach and intestinal tract, and to help…

Basella alba Another plant that can get you growing your own food very quickly is the Basella spinach or Malabar spinach. Known as Pasalai Keerai in Tamil, it is a very tasty spinach indeed! Native to the Indian subcontinent, Malabar spinach is a creeper with very big, viscous leaves and a soft stem. We know…

Capsicum annuum The Kanthari chilli, or Bird’s Eye chilli, is listed as one of the top 10 spiciest chilis in the world. It is highly aromatic, very spicy, and very delicious, and yet it is a weed! We have many plants of this kind on the farm which have emerged on their own, and their…

We have a lot of Papaya trees at Solitude, that bestow us with beautifully ripe and sweet papayas during the season. This papaya smoothie is yet another simple and alternate way of consuming papayas that are rich in Vitamin A and Vitamin E. Simply, wash, deseed and chop the papayas. Add this to the blender…