One day in the week, children in Thodupuzha taluk in Idukki district of Kerala carry two bags to school. One, of course, contains their books. The other has freshly harvested vegetables from their homestead gardens. If you peep inside, you will be surprised.
Apart from familiar vegetables there are some unusual ones. You can see colocasia leaves, clove beans, bird’s eye chillies, moringa leaves, banana stems, banana flowers, a leafy vegetable called taludama, tamarind leaves and more.
The produce is picked up and sold by the Kerala Agriculture Development Society (KADS), popular here for its efforts. . .
