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MIDWEEK MINI MARKET - 15


By Dr. R Sudarshan

The fruiting season is just about to end. Trees have shed most of their magnum opus and birds are brushing their feathers to fly back to another home. Rainwater is again looking downwards to fall from its cloudy grace. The trees have begun to bear golden-yellow leaves in the middle of these. The end of a quick era. The beginning of a new time.

Tomorrow at 8 AM, we assemble again for the midweek mini market. And it is the 15th week. Regardless of changing nature, it is our continued constancy of human transaction.

Organic Farmers' MIDWEEK MINI MARKET - 15, Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 8 AM to 10 AM

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LITTLE ANUSHKA'S WEDNESDAY DIARY
By Dr. R Sudarshan

Anushka is turning into the 'human face of the midweek mini market'. She brings her farm produce, pampers the insects of our front garden, plays with jackfruit glue, and helps out in floor management.

A young Professor of an Engineering College, who never misses the Wednesday market, asked for a small cabbage today. 

There wasn't any on the shelf as the new crop at the farm is rather young. 

Anushka harvested a cabbage head from the Farmer's House front garden pot, peeled the extra foliage, helped clean it, and passed it on to the Professor.

Working with a farm excited young person is like revisiting life all over again. Naturally.

Farmer's House, Silverfish Books, Kutz Bowl and the Farmer's Market, # 1A, 13th Cross, Kalidasa Road, VV Mohalla, Mysore.

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