Winning Entry | Cub Reporters Challenge
Seasonal strawberry search reveals global sourcing, farm visits, and growing food from seeds.
I like strawberries, but I couldn’t find them in local markets and a couple of other places. I learned that it’s not the season yet, so I wanted to know where they come from. We called up a local strawberry farm for a visit, but they said we would need to wait at least until December.
Finally, as we happened to visit Sri Lanka, we went to a strawberry farm there, where I got to taste fresh strawberries and bring some home too. Back home, I planted the seeds and am now waiting for them to grow—completing my journey from searching for strawberries to growing them myself.
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Focus Area: Seeds & Community Seed Banks | Seeds that grow life | Saving seeds in banks | Seeds for our future.
Reporting Credits:
Creative Credits: Video by the author
Judge’s Spotlight: Joel Michael, Ramnath Goenka Awardee
Congratulations on your wonderful achievement! Tejo took us from strawberries to Sri Lanka and then back home, where he planted some seeds to bring the story full circle. What a creative journey! Your enthusiasm on screen is truly refreshing and makes your storytelling exciting to watch. With a little more effort on speech clarity, you can become an engaging anchor and a fantastic video journalist in the future. Keep learning, keep exploring, and keep shining! Well done!
About the Cub Reporters Challenge:
This entry was submitted on 31st October 2025 and won the prize in the Class 4–5 category of the Cub Reporters Challenge. The challenge invited budding video journalists to take their passion for the environment to the next level—raising their voices on critical food and farm issues while gaining hands-on reporting experience. Participants ventured into their local areas, investigated on-ground realities, and captured stories through mobile video reporting. The best entries are published here to showcase their work.
Student of Class 4, PM Shri Kendriya Vidyalaya, Medak, Telangana
