from the village
A local binding technique
A traditional method for binding and weaving green shoots, shown to us by a local farmer in May 2023. The kind of knowledge that does not appear in any manual.
· Sameer Jain · 1 min read
The farmer demonstrated this without being asked — he picked up a handful of green shoots and showed us how they are woven together to bind and support. The technique is fast and uses nothing but what is growing underfoot.
We have not found it described in any of the farming literature we have read. That is not unusual. A great deal of what works in hill agriculture lives in the hands of people who have been doing it for decades, not in extension guides or government manuals.
We took the photograph to remember it. There will be a use for it here.