Nature Inspires - Chiguru Ecospace

25/09/2026

Namaste Friends,

Happy to inform you all that we are conducting this month's *Sasyanveshana* workshop to understand wild, uncultivated and nearly forgotten edible food diversity at our farm near TGHalli Dam just off. Magadi Main road(about 30 kms from Bangalore) during coming Sunday, 27th Sept.

This place-based knowledge is significant amidst the growing concerns of climate change and challenging food security.

Those interested may register for an insightful foraging and learning experience that can transform our perspective about common weeds and elevate our health towards holistic wellbeing😇.

Here's the link to Register for the workshop..
https://forms.gle/w2MMxpNTFLjxMbxK7

Special request to participate with children so that they too understand the abundance of food and resources that naturally exists around us as gifts of Nature.

15/09/2026

Our September month's Sasyanveshana workshop is happening on Sunday, 27th.
Please register yourself or share details amongst your circles 🙏

Link to register is : https://forms.gle/w2MMxpNTFLjxMbxK7

14/09/2026

25/08/2026

Green Gold Hands Working Together To Heal Our Planet 🙏

Participants of Climate Smart Villages and Livelihood Training at KGF - Kyasamballi village

Look at their beautiful bangles... I just ❤️ them.

Happy to announce, Nature Inspires India, is conducting training on setting-up and maintaining community nurseries and composting units in 5 remote villages of KGF Taluk, Kolar District

08/07/2026

Drumstick(Moringa oleifera) Leaves or ನುಗ್ಗೆ ಸೊಪ್ಪು is one of the easiest available wholesome meal.

Once a humble food source for most rural communities is now ruling international nutraceutical arena.

We can incorporate this wonderful gift of nature in various ways in our diet. Yesterday we had made Patrode, a tasty dish from the Coastal and Malnad regions of Karnataka. It tasted heavenly😍

25/06/2026

Friends, this Saturday, 27th June BDA is preparing to create history... A Guinness World Record for planting the largest number of saplings(15 lakhs) within the shortest period(12 hours)!! ...and they sure will do it without any doubt

but..... 🤔

Being a naturalist, passionate about trees and having executed many tree planting projects (of smaller scale ofcourse), I have a few concerns from this event.

Let me explain -
1. The statistics being listed seem way too optimistic and ecologically dangerous. Planting in 244 acres, 15 lakh saplings. Nature often doesn't like such sudden interventions.
2. Anyone with practical experience of planting a sapling and growing it into a full-blown tree would know the process, effort and time involved. It just doesn't match with this plan.
3. This initiative expects over 300 organisations to "adopt/care" for roughly an acre each with 7500-8000 saplings for 3 years. We members of RRNagarICare having done plantation of a few thousand saplings with complete support from the forest department and active volunteers often struggle to see plants thrive. Not sure how these "organisations" can achieve it.
4. With risk of El nino now and hot Summers later, watering would be a major task. 15 lakh saplings X a minimum of 5 litres of water a week. God knows how they would manage😳
5. The advertisement claims to plant Native saplings in a Miyawaki setup. Where do we have them??? Thanks to our Sanjeevini initiative, I am in touch with some of the committed individuals growing a few native species across the state on a small scale. A few of them I hear have rejected to provide saplings to this project fearing loss of their precious plants. Our forest department nurseries never go beyond 20 to 30 species that too mostly exotic! So, don't be surprised to see many Mahagony or commercial varieties in the lot.
6. There's a mention of Tabebuia being planted along Major Arterial Road. When did Tabebuia become a Native plant??
7. We did similar activity during 80s in Bangalore and brought in African tulips, Copper pods, Jacaranda and other structurally fragile varieties as avenue trees. These are now falling all over the place with slight wind and rain.
8. BDA claims the event is being planned under careful guidance of experts. Nearly every expert I know of on this subject have tried to voice their concern stating it a disaster, Wonder which "experts" are guiding this thoroughly unscientific task🤔.
I can go on and on to prove this project isn't viable financially and ecologically but will stop here.

There couldn't have been some hope if this planting was done in stages with clear local responsibility. Maybe by creating a local tree care group

But... now for me this project just seems to be a PR activity, which the government will utilise as an achievement for years to come and for selective individuals to become rich quick. And ofcourse the timber mafia would love to see all those Mahagony trees grow quietly under public care😏

I feel sad thinking about those helpless saplings for they sit somewhere today not yet knowing what their life is going to be soon. It's like an animal picked to sacrifice.

I hope they find ways to survive on their own🙏🏼

For reasons stated above, I have decided NOT to participate in this event. Can't digest this mass killing of saplings😞

21/06/2026

At least 12 NEET-UG aspirants died by su***de between the cancellation of the initial exam on May 12 and the re-examination today, on June 21, 2026!!!

This disturbing fact has been haunting me for days each tme I hear about a new incident being reported from some part of the country as casual as any ordinary news.

So, I am penning this message as a father, a parent, and one who genuinely love being with children and celebrating their real childhood. My request is NOT to read this message as a mark of condolence but treat this as a call for collective, community action. We cannot let this happen year after year and push it as normal.

My heart goes out to all those lovely little lives who unfortunately gave-up and decided to take this extreme step. This should not have happened. This MUST NOT HAPPEN!

Imagine the happy feeling those parents, families would have gone through to receive each one of them into their arms. A mesmerising masterpiece of nature, fully complete and capable of growing and living a full life as yet another wonderful creature on this planet Earth. Imagine the moment that soul called father holding the little extension of himself for the first time in his hands.. Building a dream each day there after, stretching often beyond limitations so that the dream remains undisturbed and soon to be realised. Everything seemed so perfect and possible.

Suddenly there's a harsh realisation of the cruel education system we have forced ourselves into. Conveniently forgetting or negating the intrinsic ability, we try to "Fit" everyone into a commonly accepted norm by setting up false measures of evaluation. Ever tried fitting a round object into a square space and start blaming the object for being so round, without looking at all the other spaces where roundness is expected and celebrated??? That's our current education system.

The heavily commercialised ecosystem having no value for humanity pushes these tender lives through so much pain that I feel lack of words to explain. Humans have lived happily on this planet for over 300000 years, far too long since we started having exams like NEET that qualify our abilities to survive, enjoy and live here.

Add all the nearly-regularised malpractices that the system has brought in and the situation becomes extremely hazardous for anyone to survive let alone compete, go-through and crack it.

Can we stop here and start asking ourselves a simple question on it's real worth?? Mind you, it's a mad mad rush and we are often not permitted with time or conscious to be able to take any sort of break to slow down and access our action. Mass herding and societal expectations working at their best, all against our will and wishes.

Today, as the nation-full of “troubled" aspirants are lining up at the exam centres manned by armed soldiers from our elite defense forces as early as 11am for an exam that starts at 2pm!!!, I only get one feeling. This is turning out to be a mass massacre situation. I fail to imagine the mental condition of each one of those 22.79 lakh young children and the torture they are being subjected to. This is worse than any concentration camps ever setup by anyone!!!

I feel no reason to wish them good luck as each one of them is already a winner having survived to be able to reach the exam centre! Truly, they all deserve a sincere appreciation and a better life!!!

Nevertheless, I wish all those children a happy ending to the horrifying NEET experience and hope they sail through this unfortunate phase of life soon.

Lastly, food for thought to all of us parents. What rights do we have to subject our children to such a life? for what reason? what is the outcome?? what would happen if this doesn’t happen??? Time and Nature have demonstrated answers all around us if at all we are ready to observe, accept and act.

My prayers to all those 12 kids and many others who have lost their lives to this madness.

Nature Inspires India stands committed to do our bit to get the right education to enjoy our living on this blue-green planet just the way it was done before we became “Educated”.

Thanks!!

15/06/2026

Namaste...

The hills are calling....

Here I come... ☺️

Wish me friends... Am on on a journey, right now at the convergence of Western and Eastern Ghats to get Rare and Endangered Native species to where they belong..... 'Amidst us☺️"..

Over the years, I've understood that all the talk about Biodiversity Conservation does NOT make any sense and WILL NOT return any benefits until and unless we start seeing these plants regularly and start using them as part of our everyday life.
'Nature Inspires - Sanjeevini", our unique nursery of native species, forgotten foods and healing herbs was born with this objective. Apologies, for making most of you eat things you have never heard-off😂.

Now as part of this pursuit, I am today going to meet few farmers and forest dwellers of this wonderland with whom Nature Inspires will work with the following three point agenda -
1. Help improve the livelihood of these poor and forgotten families by encouraging them to grow necessary saplings from the forests.
2. Support urban farmers, eco-warriors and all those good-hearted individuals doing mass plantation with much needed saplings of our native plant diversity.
3. Educate and bring awareness about the usage of these plants or their offerings (fruits, flowers, bark, Seed, etc) amongst the general public.
This we hope will help us "conserve" the plants from going extinct and as a bonus offer good health for all of us.

Nature Inspires India will beg for each one of your support in this endeavor. Get involved in whichever way you can. Together, we can make a difference 🙏🏼

05/06/2026

Namaste Friends,

Nature Inspires India believes everyday to be World Environment Day as we are in that stage of urgency.

United Nations has appropriately acknowledged the need by setting the theme for this year's World Environment Day as 'Inspired by Nature, For Climate, For our future'

It's time we listen to the signals of Nature, respond to the needs of Climate Change in the most responsible way to have any remote chance of a Future.

TheWorldCounts.com registers that we have already consumed 1.7+ times Earth and fast loosing whatever little is left.

The Use and Throw culture forcefully put on us in the name of convenience is only adding to the problem. Looks like most of us have already accepted to completely use-up our once lovely Blue-Green planet and start looking for our home abode another 'Yet to be discovered/finalised' faaaaaaar-off place. This sentiment while looks great for a Sci-fi movie, feels scary for real. Yes, it will happen, our beloved capitalists will make it happen but the practical question is what is the price to pay? and will we be alive or if we are, will we even be fit enough to sit on that spaceship when the day is announced!!

While all these thoughts confuse us, the best bet is to start acting at whatever opportunities we have around us to ensure the place remains habitable. Nature Inspires India is committed to this deed and appreciate all your support as it has been over the years.

Wishing you all a Very Happy and Sustainable World Environment Day 2026.

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01/06/2026

Friends, we at Nature Inspires India through all of initiatives have been pushing usage of seeded varieties of everything we consume as the whole purpose of nature making these tasty fruits/flowers is for its SEED that ensures uninterrupted future growth.

Unfortunately some selfish capitalists started producing seedless varieties and propagated an idea that seeds are an inconvenience in our culinary experience.

It has NOT been so for 1000's of years since man started walking on this planet. We just need to walk a step back and undo the learning enforced upon us.

Thankfully, there are some efforts around the world to educate willing people about this now. Please watch this video and share it further.

Our food habits are an integral part of native species conservation and Nature Inspires is fully commiited to it. Are you?

Let's look for seeded variety when we think of our next fruit/vegetable and also promote those who commit to grow them for us 🙏

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