Into the Woods with Green Thumbed Activist, Indy Srinath

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Almost a decade ago, Indy Srinath made herself a pretty ambitious promise. “It was like having a sudden awakening,” she tells Messy Nessy Chic about her decision to learn the name of every single plant she discovered, “where you feel like you’ve been living with a crowd of people who serve you your entire life, but never made the effort to learn any of their names.” She hasn’t stopped learning since.

Today, Srinath has blossomed into a true Renaissance woman of all things environmental. She’s a passionate ethnomycologist (aka mushroom whisperer), sustainable farmer, and longtime fosterer of gardens in Black and brown communities in the US; at present, she manages an urban farm on a rooftop of Skid Row in Los Angeles, California.

Above all, Srinath has managed to make all of these interests feel so accessible and magical through her Instagram, where you can tag along on her farming and foraging adventures. What did it take for her, as both a former-novice and a woman of colour, to succeed in her fields? She opened up to Messy Nessy about why it’s so important to foster green spaces, careers and resources for Brown and Black communities…

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