In 2010, we started maintaining kitchen gardens at the hospitals of our Talap and Budlapara Tea Estates in Assam. This was a way to ensure that fresh vegetables were readily available for the hospitals to prepare a healthy diet for the patients. The Estate management conducted Kitchen Garden Awareness programmes in the Estate labour lines to enable the workers to grow vegetables not only for their family´s consumption, but also as a means for generating income. It has since become a practice that is spreading across many of the Apeejay Tea Estates in Assam. To our delight, some of the workers have since started selling their vegetables in the local market and have thus built an additional capacity of income generation.