A TALE OF KALE

By Dr R Sudarshan

A young person from the community planned to make kale juice for tomorrow and asked us in the morning if we could get her a bunch in the day.  Our plants had just been harvested of leaves 2 days ago and we could neither harvest anymore, nor could ignore a rare request.  We reached out to half a dozen organic farmers that sell vegetables at the Farmer's House Sunday Market and asked if anyone had a plant that could yield a bunch of leaves.

Manjula who runs Belavala Foundation along with her husband Dr. Ramakrishna asked her staff all the way from Bangalore to look for a kale plant in her farm near KRS.  They found one lone plant with a couple of  leaves already happily devoured by insects.  Ramakrishna chose the best of leaves and brought them to Mysore by evening that we drove to the store by night.

A bunch of kale reached the connoisseur after 12 hours of scrambling.  And not just the juice, even a story was born.

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