Nabanita or as she is fondly known ‘Julie’ has been passionate about gardening since childhood. From a family of avid kitchen gardeners, she grew up watching her Permaculturist father in action. A firm believer of bringing people together through gardening she oversees many things at Edible Routes including supervising kitchen garden operations, the planting division,workshops and farmlet management. She received her Permaculture Design certificate from Narssana Koppula, the pioneer of Indian Permaculture in November 2016 and her Advanced Permaculture Design Skills, Mapping to Scale and Landscape Graphics from Raya Cole in December, 2017. She was invited as a resource person to train women self help group in Majuli island, assam and by the Northeast Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP) to train hill farmers in Nagaland in 2017.