Mushrooms in Huts and Saffron in a Room

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Mushrooms in Huts and Saffron in a Room

Dear Reader,Ten years ago, if somebody had told me that you could grow saffron, a cool-climate crop from Kashmir, in the heat of Nagpur, I would have laughed it off. Our minds are conditioned to follow the norms and believe the obvious, limiting our ability to think differently. But Divya and her husband Akshay Holey believed they could grow saffron in their house. They researched, met farmers and replicated the climate of Kashmir in an 80 sq ft…