Collaborators

Sarjapura curries is a community and inclusion based art/video project that aims to include edible weeds in the menu and document recipes of the same. It extends to conserving knowledge on those weeds and reviving their popularity in vegetable markets, popularising them for urban/terrace gardening and lastly promoting their seeds.Their work has transformed a barren community space into a thriving garden of almost lost edible greens and vegetables like the clove bean. They have hosted seed and sapling sharing events with local and urban gardeners and were part of ‘Submerge’ at BIC. Besides this Sarjapura Curries prompted other places like schools and colleges to start growing their supplies. Women in the village got inspired to set up beds to grow greens in their spaces. They further developed a new setup at an adopted farm land to revive amaranthus and local heirloom varieties of snake gourds and bottle gourds.

A community garden in V Kalahalli has been set up to grow these weeds and have community meals to exchange knowledge (e.g. on traditional foraging). This makes meal plans more sustainable and also installs a sense of togetherness within society.

Sarjapura Curries has created an online documentation of the project findings, information, recipes and stories that were collected through the year. They also have an active Whatsapp group for ease of sharing information on what is growing and for help in identifying unknown produce of terrace gardens.