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India’s elephant-friendly tea garden

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Re: India’s elephant-friendly tea garden

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Do you have a link for the recipe? The first page of Google results doesn't show anything called exactly that. It is also confusing because coffee is not a traditional drink in the Himalayan regions I'm familiar with. You didn't mean Butter Tea[1], did you? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_tea

I totally meant Butter Tea. My bad. My first foray into buttered drinks was via Bulletproof Coffee, which was inspired by Butter Tea[1]. My typo was the result of confusing the two. >As it turns out, the idea of mixing something fatty into a hot beverage to start off a hard day’s work is not so new. In fact, the inspiration for Bulletproof Coffee came to Asprey during a 2005 trip to the Himalayas. In Tibet, yak butte…

> with some individuals consuming up to 60 cups per day.

My arteries hurt just from reading this.

And I say this as someone who's eating a block of Dubliner cheese for lunch at this very moment.

Re: India’s elephant-friendly tea garden

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This problem seems compatible with a permaculture approach: Shape your land and crops to form a synergy with the environment and local flora and fauna. I have no clue on how to keep elephants out, though. Chicken wire?

1. Ditches. The bigger they are, the less than want to fall.

2. Beehive fences. (http://elephantsandbees.com/)

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