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08/10/2026

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Mr. Chakkochan built a cooperative that supplies half of Europe and still thinks the work is ordinary.

What stayed with us was not the scale of it. It was the table afterwards — food grown twenty steps from where it was cooked, served by a family who treated the camera as an inconvenience and the guest as the point.

Wayanad has been eating its medicine for generations. Not as a practice. As a Tuesday.

The Living Archive — EP5 of Secrets of the South, out now.
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28/09/2026

A farmer in Wayanad can walk you past a hedge and name four plants in it that treat the human body.

Most farms clear that hedge.

Vanamoolika grew a cooperative around it.

The Living Archive — EP5, out now on YouTube.
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Most of what gets called sustainable is a matter of material choice — mud instead of concrete, cotton instead of polyest...
15/09/2026

Most of what gets called sustainable is a matter of material choice — mud instead of concrete, cotton instead of polyester, small-batch instead of mass-produced. On the banks of the Nila, a farmer offered a harder standard: sustainability is not what you build with, it is whether the value of local labour is allowed to stay local.

Gram Swaraj, in his account, is the test of it. A village either exercises its independence daily or hands it away.

Guest of the Land — essay up on Substack, link in bio.

Some places you enter. Some places receive you.Shoranur, on the banks of the Nila: a gate, a garden, Ambrose and Mini se...
09/09/2026

Some places you enter. Some places receive you.
Shoranur, on the banks of the Nila: a gate, a garden, Ambrose and Mini setting a table for whoever arrives.

EP04 Shared Ground, streaming now on youtube.com/

04/09/2026

A note from FARMER'S SHARE, on the banks of the Nila.
Ambrose Kooliyath does not consider humans separate from nature. Not as metaphor, as biology. Humans belong to their ecosystems, and their role is to help those systems survive.

EP04: Shared Ground on YouTube: youtube.com/ 🤍

02/09/2026

A minute inside Farmer’s Share, Shoranur.
A farm, a studio, a papermill, a paddy field — all held in one backyard.

Watch the full episode on youtube.com/ 🤍

Ambrose Kooliyath will tell you Farmer’s Share cannot be replicated.Every place has its own ecology, its own needs, its ...
30/08/2026

Ambrose Kooliyath will tell you Farmer’s Share cannot be replicated.

Every place has its own ecology, its own needs, its own way of being tended, what works on the banks of the Nila will not work anywhere else.

This, for him, is what sustainability actually means.

EP04: Shared Ground. Watch now on youtube.com/ 🤍

29/08/2026

Nila river. Shoranur. A gate that doesn’t quite tell you what you’re walking into.

Ambrose and Mini Kooliyath work with the farmers nearby — paddy cultivation, fair prices at harvest, food and labour and knowledge kept rooted where they belong. What the potters shape, the papermakers sit beside. Nothing here is trying to scale.

EP04: Shared Ground. Out now.

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