ABOUT BIJI ABOOBAKER
Biji Aboobaker is a harbinger of naturalness. She is a staunch believer of the idea – “closer to nature, the better”.
Being uprooted to the city life, she was exposed to the harsh reality of the pollution element in every aspect of our life. So, the root of all her initiations were more out of need than fascination; the need for clean air, water and food, the need for unadulterated basic necessities. She realised that the conventional life that we are leading now and is regarded as normal is not natural.
Biji wanted to go back to nature and embrace it with her life. Setting herself as an example, she intends to show us how to live naturally and how living naturally can positively affect every domain of our life, especially health. She wanted to unveil, how the most natural and simple things like giving birth is dealt by our society in the most complicated and unnatural way possible. She gave awareness and support on natural home deliveries, from her experience in home delivering her own kid. She wanted to instil these values to the future generation. Biji wanted her kids to continue her legacy and the major step that she took towards that direction was deschooling them. Nature is their “Gurukulam” aka classroom. They are encouraged to acquire their knowledge from nature itself and their knowledge can be on par with any traditional student. These are just some glimpses to the way of her living.
Biji’s mission is to work for a healthy society and future. For good health, good food is inevitable and good food comes only from safe and non-toxic farming. She had to face many ups and downs in her 13 years journey of advocating and practicing natural and safe farming. The challenges were unlimited including economic insecurities. At some point, even sustenance was at stake and had to break-off from everything. But, coming back is inevitable when it comes to a passion that is like your lifeline.
In short, this is the story of a lady with unparalleled goals and immense will to get there. And Natural Edibles is her leap before the jump for a better future.