Permaculture Living with MLG is a weekly solo podcast, where Manisha Lath Gupta speaks about her journey of straddling both the corporate world and the natural world during the design and development of her permaculture project Aanandaa. Each episode will give you a glimpse into her sustainability journey and educate you about the natural world. It will inspire you to pursue a similar path.
Manisha Lath Gupta is the founder of Aanandaa Permaculture Project. She is a business graduate from IIM Bangalore (India) and has worked for over 2 decades with large corporates like Unilever, Colgate Palmolive, Axis Bank & Uber. She is also the founder of Mojarto (formerly known as IndianArtCollectors). Around the time that Manisha turned 40, her husband & she acquired a barren piece of land and developed a permaculture farm on it. All this, while continuing to pursue their corporate careers in Mumbai.
If you would like to learn more about permaculture, visit www.aanandaa.com and follow our social media handles on Youtube, Instagram and Facebook @farmaanandaa. If you would like me to answer any specific queries or have any feedback for me, please email me on hello@aanandaa.com
S2E26 The Magic of Growing Potatoes: One Goes In, Many Come Out
Growing potatoes is a little like digging for treasure. We put one potato—or even a piece of one—into the soil, watch a leafy plant grow above ground, and have very little idea of what is happening underneath.
In this episode of Permaculture Living with MLG, I talk about how we grow potatoes at Aanandaa: planting the tubers, adding more soil as the plants grow, mulching and watering, preventing potatoes from turning green, knowing when they are ready to harvest, and finally curing and storing them.
And then comes the best part—putting your hands into the soil and discovering just how many potatoes that one little plant has quietly produced.
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For more information on permaculture, visit www.aanandaa.com. You can contact us at hello@aanandaa.com and +91 62838 99456. To take courses on permaculture visit www.permaculture.co.in
Follow us on our social media handles
FB: https://www.facebook.com/farmaanandaa/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/farmaanandaa/
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@farmaanandaa
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aanandaapermacultureproject/
29 Sept 2026
S2E25 The Winter Abundance
Winter is the season of abundance at Aanandaa. As the sun filters through our trimmed trees, the vegetable beds come alive with cauliflowers, cabbages, broccoli, peas, tomatoes, leafy greens, radishes, carrots, turnips and more.
In this episode of Permaculture Living with MLG, I talk about the peculiar logic of the winter vegetable garden—shorter days, the need for more sunshine and space, and crops where one whole plant may give us just one vegetable. Yet the sheer diversity of the winter harvest is astonishing.
From crucifers and greens to roots and peas, winter reminds us what seasonal eating really looks like. I like to think of fruit as cleansing and vegetables as healing—and winter is certainly the season when the garden invites us to eat our vegetables!
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For more information on permaculture, visit www.aanandaa.com. You can contact us at hello@aanandaa.com and +91 62838 99456. To take courses on permaculture visit www.permaculture.co.in
Follow us on our social media handles
FB: https://www.facebook.com/farmaanandaa/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/farmaanandaa/
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@farmaanandaa
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aanandaapermacultureproject/
22 Sept 2026
S2E24 The Last two Geese
We once had a lively flock of geese at Aanandaa—until bird flu swept through and left us with just two survivors. We didn’t know whether they were male or female, but when they began laying eggs, we waited hopefully for goslings. Year after year, they made their nest, laid a clutch and sat patiently on their eggs. Nothing ever hatched.
Eventually we realised the simple truth: both our surviving geese were female.
What followed was my surprisingly difficult search for a gander, and a growing awareness of just how much these birds seemed to miss having a larger flock and the opportunity to raise young. I never managed to find them a mate, and eventually we lost them too.
In this episode of Permaculture Living with MLG, I recount the story of our last two geese—and reflect on what keeping animals teaches us about companionship, instinct, responsibility and loss on a farm.
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For more information on permaculture, visit www.aanandaa.com. You can contact us at hello@aanandaa.com and +91 62838 99456. To take courses on permaculture visit www.permaculture.co.in
Follow us on our social media handles
FB: https://www.facebook.com/farmaanandaa/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/farmaanandaa/
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@farmaanandaa
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aanandaapermacultureproject/
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