January 13, 2022

Book Recommendations – January 2022

A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO HOME GARDENING, THE NATURAL WAY – ANJU AGARWAL

A Beginner's Guide To Home Gardening, The Natural Way has something for everyone from beginners to advanced home gardeners covering  a variety of topics from how to make your own fertilizers, potting mixes and pesticides to how to grow stronger plants and cultivate more bio diversity in your home garden. 

MASALA LAB: THE SCIENCE OF INDIAN COOKING – KRISH ASHOK

This book promises to make you a better cook by turning your kitchen into a fun, creative playground for culinary experimentation and proves along the way that your grandmother was right all along.

December 16, 2021

Measuring Sustainability

When we started Beforest, a simple description of what we wanted to do was create a food, water and power secure sustainable landscape. This was before we realised we were participating in the jargon wars taking place in the real estate sector (we hate identifying ourselves with this space but unfortunately, are often generalized into it).