Articles by Samiksha Lohar

Raised on a traditional farm and amongst the indigenous communities, Samiksha Lohar has been practising and teaching techniques such as companion planting, harvesting and storage, seed saving, soil building, biological pest management, traditional food processing, live fencing, medicinal plants, and more.

"In the world of our greatest inventions, the solutions to our biggest problems may be hiding right below our feet.” When we look at urban spaces from a sustainability aspect/the angle of sustainability, it is easy to feel hopeless at times, especially looking at the rate at which the cities are growing, attracting more migration and reducing capacities to look after the needs of the people. An acute lack of space and time β€” a characteristic of a capitalist lifestyle β€” impacts all our actions. Challenges such as indiscriminate waste generation and lack of consciousness towards consumerism are difficult to…

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