As part of this project, Archana Singh seek to promote traditional knowledge on native food like millets, herbs and share the wisdom of holistic food sciences like naturopathy, ayurveda through practical/contemporary recipes.
Archana conducted one workshop in Creativity Adda on 11th June 2024, where she discussed about traditional grains and the wisdom behind our old grains and millets to 20 students. She also taught them how to make a unique and old sweat and sour raw mango curry with vegetable kodo rice, a healthy option for lunch. All the students learned happily and participated in the cooking process. She taught them how to make millet bread too. The kids enjoyed the session.
One online session Archana took on 17th July was monsoon food with three other experts, Tarika Ahuja, Ankita Lodha, Sumi Chandresh on the vegetables we eat, fruits and the choice of grains in the monsoon season. They all shared their known remedies on gut health especially in the monsoon season.
Archana also went to Udaipur on the 8th of August and headed to the Jhadol Bheel tribal area and observed the traditional vegetables that they eat in the different weather conditions. She worked with 20 youth there. She also participated in their fest on 9th August. They all prepared ragi ladoos for the festival.
Then she met Surender, Manoj and Rohit jain and understood the challenges and the mindset of customers regarding the millet and traditional foods in the current times.
