The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.
Masanobu Fukuoka
About Krishna
For the last 30 years at Solitude Farm, Auroville (India) Krishna McKenzie has been reconnecting with the local food and relationship to food through community, education, celebration. Krishna Mckenzie is also an actor and musician with his group “Emergence” formed here in India. As an educator and public speaker Krishna has been part of many TEDX and University events.
The Journey
Emergence
Krishna McKenzie, the frontman of the band Emergence, makes music of a different kind —it is influenced by Solitude Farm, that lives a dynamic alternative lifestyle, based on sustainability and close ties to nature. Auroville-based jazz fusion/acoustic rock/indo pop band Emergence comprises of four talented and unique musicians, each one a master of his trade.
The band has performed at Glastonbury festival, Kennedy Center US, Blue Frog Mumbai & Counter Culture Bangalore to name a few.
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People . Food . Music
An offering of music by Emergence, food and Krishna’s narrative of cultural redemption through honouring and serving local foods, bringing about awareness of fundamental ideas such as ecology, holistic living, natural foods, celebration and the importance of community.
Music and food are an adhesive that bring people together.
The message of cultural redemption through honouring the gifts of Mother Nature, much like a plant growing from seed, has come to fruition with the “farm to plate” experience at Solitude Farm in Auroville. In between each song examples of the seasonal local foods are served.
Get in touch with us to have this experience tailored for a space or an occasion of your choice.
Edible Landscapes
How are you utilizing your outdoor space? Is every corner, corridor, and open space of your corporate environment creating value yet?
If not, let us make that happen for you. Your extra space could actually anchor your whole community together to align to your company’s values, and simply through the act of growing and sharing food. Let us tell you more..
Vision
Sustainable growth is only possible with a profound collaboration with Mother Nature and that starts with; the food we grow and eat as a community. This is how we will heal ourselves and our planet. By introducing a wide diversity of foods that are the very foundation of our culture, and learning how to integrate them into the nutritional needs of our community, we believe that we can tackle global problems such as climate change, lifestyle diseases, and on a more subtle note, a loss of cultural identity.
Mid Day Meal
The custodians of our cultural heritage are the small land holders, often women who know the value of traditional spinaches and forgotten foods. By valuing local foods we value this intergenerational knowledge allowing local farmers and women workers to reclaim a livelihood that emerges from their culture. The Menu we propose is not much different from the food we are already serving at Solitude cafe.
The Moringa Project
By highlighting the multiple values of moringa and reintegrating them into the diet of every college in India for just once a week would create a revolution not only nutritionally and ecologically but would also create aware and respect of our cultural nutritional heritage in India. By inspiring every college to eat moringa spinach once a week we are fostering a collective value from north to south a common cultural reference, a common collective identity.
If you feel inspired and would like to help us to manifest our vision, do reach out!
Updates & Events
3-Day Intensive Permaculture Workshop
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