pickles

A home gardener reports being already on their third jar of preserved fruit this canning season, sharing the progress under home, gardening, fruit, DIY and canning tags. The short update reflects the peak of the harvest-and-preserve period, when growers turn surplus fruit into jams, pickles and other preserved goods, a routine DIY practice that draws interest as preserving season gets under way.

Two young friends in India have left their corporate jobs to start a pickle business, which has grown into a venture valued at Rs 81 crore. The story of their leap from stable employment to entrepreneurship is being shared widely, adding to a wave of coverage about young Indian founders building consumer food brands from scratch.