From Shimla

A Creative Revolution by the Farmers of Shimla, India. As generational apple cultivators with ancestral apple orchards, Himanshu Khagta & Pranav Rawat created From Shimla during the first wave of the Covid 19 pandemic as a way of making freshly plucked apples available to their friends in the cities. Over that apple season, the idea took a life of its own and from otherwise providing fresh apples only to limited Mandis in bulk, the initiative gave them the opportunity to share their harvest and bounty and that of their fellow farmer friends, directly with the consumers. From Shimla is now a growing community of like-minded people, living and working in the mountains. The pandemic saw the current generation return to their roots and rediscover the unhurried mountain life. Many of them have chosen to get involved with their respective farms, slowly revolutionizing the way the apple orchards are run- learning from the generation before them and applying to that the technology that they are so well versed with.