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Of the Zombie fungus and its delicious relatives🍄

There’s a mushroom🍄 that is parasitic and can control the host’s mind, can even make it kill itself. If you’ve seen the hit HBO series – “The Last of Us”, you would know what I am talking about. Cordyceps militaris, the so-called “zombie fungus” is a real fungus that infects insects and ants and literally […]
10 months ago
Learn Farming

Do plants talk to each other?

Do plants talk to each other? While plants don’t communicate in the way humans do with spoken language, interestingly they do engage in complex chemical signaling and interactions. Let’s understand this further with this example. The Giraffe – Acacia Tree relationship – it’s complicated! In the African Savannah, the lands barely have any vegetation. There are just […]
1 year ago
Clean Eating Recipes

Making this miracle drink – ABC juice !

We are going to make this magic drink today – ABC juice, with organic fruits and vegetables from Farmizen. ABC = Apple + Beetroot + Carrot   Great tasting, easy to make AND super healthy.   5 reasons why ABC juice is called a miracle drink – https://www.thestatesman.com/lifestyle/5-reasons-abc-juice-called-miracle-drink-1503036665.html     2 medium carrots, 3 medium […]
2 years ago
Uncategorized

Artificial preservatives in pickles

I am a Postgraduate in Pharmacy, a lot of my batch mates are from Gujarat and are involved in manufacture, import and trade of various API’s, Chemicals. I had sent a few bottles of my homemade Deccan organics pickles to a friend. He send me a few forwards from a associate of his who deals […]
3 years ago
know your food

How to choose the best oil for cooking

Unrefined oils are very popular today, whether we use them or not we hear about them all the time. Most areas in Bangalore will have shops with  wood oil press units selling non refined oils under various tags like cold pressed and wood pressed. In this blog lets dig around a bit into cooking oils […]
3 years ago
know your food

Honey, am I fake?

Honey could be man’s first and most reliable source of sweetener. References to honey date back to in 5500 B.C.E whereas jaggery and sugar are more recent at around 5,000 years.  Throughout history it has been used as sweetener, as a marinade, in medicines and as a natural lip balm, moisturizer, or cough remedy. So […]
3 years ago