Tasting hedgerow at Salpe, Maharashtra

Our current flagship project is the Tasting Hedgerow—a 600-meter living boundary planted as both ecological infrastructure and edible experience. Most farm hedgerows are functional but forgettable. Ours is designed to be walked, grazed by hand, and learned from.

The hedge layers more than forty species across its length: berry-bearing shrubs for birds and foragers, nitrogen-fixers to feed the soil, deep-rooted natives to anchor the bank, and flowering plants timed so that something is in bloom from March to October to keep pollinators fed through the whole season. Visitors can walk its length and taste their way through it—currant, gooseberry, hazelnut, rosehip, sweet cicely—while interpretive markers explain what each plant is doing for the system around it.

The goal is twofold. Ecologically, the Hedgerow is a wildlife corridor, a windbreak, and a soil anchor that connects two patches of remnant woodland on neighboring land. Socially, it's an argument made out of plants: that a boundary can be generous, that biodiversity can be delicious, and that the most persuasive case for regenerative farming is the one people can put in their mouths.