I grew up in the metropolis of Bombay in middle of an urban jungle where there were no yards. In my early twenties, I moved to US for higher education and eventually settled into a suburban California tract home with a decent backyard that had a lush green lawn. I was busy with my career and was content with leaving my backyard in care of a gardener for many years. Eventually my journey took me towards a spiritual path, vegetarianism, veganism, organic foods, farmers markets, CSAs.
In 2014 when drought in California was at it’s peak and there were severe watering restrictions, I lost my lawn and that was a turning point in my life. Taking local to the max, I fired my gardener, build raised beds in my backyard and started growing vegetables on my own. I had no experience or a green thumb, but being an engineer, I like to research and found that there is a lot of information that kind folks have put out. I experimented a lot and continue to do so. Gardening is such an amazing and humbling journey in creativity that teaches you patience and respect for nature. You are but only small input that goes on to manifest amazing life forms. I continue this journey with fruit trees and now growing microgreens. A lot of my friends have been the victims of fruits of my experiments and ask questions to begin their own experiments. This blog is my effort to give back to the community after benefiting from knowledge shared by so many kind folks out there.
Let's Grow Greens 