• Fair Trade As We Do It: the Story of Jumbo Nuts

    Fair Trade As We Do It: the Story of Jumbo Nuts


    Fair Trade Alliance Kerala, the small-farmer collective I work for, is recapturing the homestead farming traditions of Kerala. Our goal is to grow to about 10,000 farming families stewarding about 40,000 acres of farmland, creating conditions that are akin to a tropical rainforest in crop diversity and biodiversity.

  • Saving seeds to build bonds in our community

    Saving seeds to build bonds in our community


    In life, it’s easy to take short cuts, but if you take time to do things a different way, what develops may surprise you.