1. Spicey Stories

5. My growing up...

7. Spice mill

8. Kerala Tea plantation

13. Chai garam garam chai!?

14. Empire and Trade...

15. 1892

16. £30-40 million pounds each year in 1878

18. Food security
Pests and diseases
Destruction by wildlife
Appropriation of rural land
Falling commodity prices
Access to global market
and fair trade
Farmers debt...suicides

19. FTAK growing regions....
Fort Cochin
Major trading port
Portuguese 1498
Dutch 1662
British
Port Muzuris Megasthenes, Greek ambassodor mentions Kerala for its spices 5th Century

20. 4,500 members 10% women Food security, helping most vulnerable

21. Seedbank of knowledge 2015

22. `Elements` pays and buys: cocoa, coffee, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, mace, black and white pepper, caradamon, tumeric, cashew nuts & coconuts It pays a Fair Trade Premium FTAK uses for: Conversion to organic farming Disaster management fund post monsoon etc Infrastructure; offices and....

23. Solar powered electric fencing for protection from elephants...!

24. 1st Indian Restaurant 1810

25. 1.3 million 1st World War (Brighton Pavillion)
1⁄4 pound meat  (Non-meat eaters received 2 ounces of gur (coarse, unrefined sugar made from sugar cane juice) or sugar or 3 ounces of milk in place of 4 ounces of meat)
1⁄8 pound potatoes
1⁄3 ounce tea
1⁄2 ounce salt
1 1⁄2 pounds atta (flour)
4 ounces dhal (dried lentils, peas or beans which have been stripped of their outer hulls and split)
2 ounces ghee (clarified butter)
1⁄6 ounce chillies
1⁄6 ounce turmeric
1⁄3 ounce ginger
1⁄6 ounce garlic
1 ounce gur

26. Spice cupboard at home, 22 jars!! 2016....
Food, medicine, beauty, dyes

27. Instrumental in India gaining independence from the British Empire
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and one another”