During our three days of stay at Kel & Peggy’s home, there was time to listen to their relationships with people of the tea growing region of North East India, in the province of Assam, and their work towards teaching the locals on the forgotten methods of sustainable chemical free farming, and same time their attempt to set up a fair trade system for the small tea growers of the region.

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In this second video clip, a mere 7 minute episode, she describes how they managed to get Dr. Debal Deb to Assam for a few days, to teach folks the art and the need for seed preservation, and to interact with school children about same. Apparently, it was the children rather than the grown ups that recharged Dr. Deb’s optimism about the future. Like they said – child is the father of man.

What makes this video more interesting for me is that Debal is a personal friend of mine, apart from being a unique zero carbon footprint scientist and a mystic. There is a sizzling noise from the background, as something was cooking in the attached kitchen, and we apologize if folks find it disconcerting.

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The 7 minute talk is converted here as a podcast. You can either listen to it directly from this page by clicking the play button at the bottom of this page. For those that wish to store the audio and listen at leisure through their iPod, iPhone or iPad etc, can do so from Apple iTunes. Type “Tony Mitra” in the iTune Store search field, and the podcast should show up. One can subscribe to the podcast (its free) and listen to the episodes later. All the episodes are almost exclusively related to GMO.