Kitchen garden in IT Company

This IT Company in Bengaluru is going beyond just computers and doing something for a healthy lifestyle. Sasken Technology has been utilizing its 4 acres of unused land in a fruitful way by growing organic vegetables.  It is a kitchen garden that grows vegetables in its purest forms that helps its employees to remain healthy. There are many vegetables grown in their kitchen garden like cabbage, spinach, tomato, sweet-corn, okra, beans, beetroot, bitter gourd, carrot, radish. Depending on the harvest, the company also organizes weekly market once or twice a week. By this, they give a chance to their employees to buy fresh organic vegetables. This initiative has been taken three months before and since then it is successfully organizing the weekly market better known as Mandi. The company realized that four acre of land owned by the company is unused. Partial land was used to play football and basketball but still there was one acre completely unused, where the company set up an organic kitchen. According to the report published in The Times of India, Sunil Dath, head-facility management and IT operations informed that they decided over to cultivate something and soon started cleaning the area. The soil was also sent to a laboratory to check the pH value and if it is suitable to grow vegetables and which vegetables specifically. The money earned from selling the vegetables that comes to 20 per cent less than the original market price, it is used to buy more seeds and others requirements for farming. This move has also given employment to the gardeners and there is also an existing five-member gardening team in the company. The vegetables grown are completely organic without using any chemicals or pesticides. The employees of the company are also taking equal interest in the gardening where they are seen heading towards the garden and looking at the progress. Also it helps to bring down the stress level in the company where the employees are seen coming to the nature and also discussing the vegetables they eat. It has surely proved to be a stress-buster and hope other IT companies too take the cue from the same.