Society & Culture

Permaculture Living with MLG

by Manisha Lath Gupta

Share this ranking Is this your show? Claim it

Listen on Apple Podcasts Pocket Casts RSS feed

Chart positions today · Japan

Not on the Japan charts we track today.

If you like Permaculture Living with MLG, try…

The Permaculture Podcast

Latest episodes

S2E12 A Village Wedding

June 30, 2026 · 16 min

The first social interaction we had in the village was attending the wedding of our nightwatchman and first employee Sunil. We had known Sunil from the time he first joined us, and seen him mature into a responsible householder over the…
S2E11 Joy is not a Strategy

June 23, 2026 · 15 min

The dog and cat population on your land can quickly spiral out of control leading to uncared for dogs, accidents and incidents with stray dogs. While we enjoyed having small puppies and kittens to play with we realised over time that 'joy'…
S2E10 The Eggy Business

June 15, 2026 · 16 min

Raising hens or chicken was challenging for us. Desi/ native hens would often lay eggs but not sit on them to hatch into chicks. And day old chicks available commercially would have very high mortality on the farm. We were keen to…
S2E9 The Art of preserving Abundance

June 9, 2026 · 16 min

When we first began harvesting significant quantities of fruits and vegetables from our farm, we faced an unexpected challenge: we had more produce than we could consume, and no easy market to sell it. Living in Gurgaon at the time, we…
S2E8 Managing Fruit Trees

June 1, 2026 · 16 min

While planting an orchard of fruit trees, one has to keep many factors in mind. The quality and variety of the sapling really matters, as does the care one takes of the graft as the tree grows. Many trees need special pruning or trimming…

Show 7 more episodesShow fewer episodes

S2E7 Mangoes-The King of Fruits!

May 26, 2026 · 15 min

First year of being around the mangoes - so many varieties - so much fruit! We were taking basket fulls back to Gurgaon and could eat a couple of quintals just by ourselves! We had planted a wide variety of mangoes at the start of…
S2E6 My first Farm Tour

May 19, 2026 · 16 min

A Vegan get together resulted in a farm tour at Aanandaa. For the first time I took a group of visitors around the farm explaining to them the permaculture design principles in action. I learnt to articulate concepts and show them in…
S2E5 Cow Manure or Biomass?

May 12, 2026 · 14 min

When I look back at photos of 2016 onwards, I see a lot of animals at the farm. Cows were especially kept for cow manure and cow urine which was used to make jeevamrut. It was my belief back then that organic farming runs on these two…
S2E4 Its Aanandaa with two As

May 5, 2026 · 16 min

In May 2016, we decided to make a website for the farm. It was a project for our 13 year old who was showing interest in coding and software. We needed a URL, a logo, and a website hosting platform. It proved to be trickier than expected…
S2E3 The lull before the storm

April 28, 2026 · 14 min

In the summer of 2016, we decided to camp out at Aanandaa one summer night. This would be the first time we were spending the entire night on the land. We excitedly pitched the tent and set up our bedding. But alas, it was a hot still…
S2E2 A big onion harvest

April 21, 2026 · 16 min

Soon after we loved to Gurgaon, we got our first large harvest - of onions. The local arthiyas did not buy onions. So we had to find other ways to dispose them off. Luckily for us an organic farmer;s market had just started in…
S2E1 A step closer to the Land

April 14, 2026 · 15 min

Coming to Gurgaon suddenly felt like a huge leap for us. The physical proximity was there, but also the mental proximity. Moreover, Agam had retired from work, so he could visit very often. I would often drive up on my own starting at…

Full episode archive on Apple Podcasts →

About the show

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