Care for the place

Children’s Land Last Sunday, December 27, we inaugurated Sadhana Forest Children’s Land! This new project is led by Ana and Tiago with the help of Maja, Reza, Niki, David, Aviram and Yorit. The day’s program was packed with a permaculture course for children, a deep ecology session, joyful non-competitive games, music and singing, a special…

For the last few weeks many of the volunteers have been busy with painting new forest plaques with information about some of our tree species. Here in Sadhana Forest we are growing a Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest, and this ecosystem type consists of over 160 species. Most of these are evergreen species including trees, shrubs and…

On a beautiful Wednesday Sadhana Forest welcomed for the second time a very special children’s performance. I actually want to tell you about the first time this happened, about a week and a half earlier. It was a surprise, at least for me. On Saturday night, our weekly open podium night had so far only…

Hello Sadhana Forest World!!!! Today, the participants in the three year Environmental Leadership course began lessons in Tamil! A wonderful Tamilian woman by the name of Meena gave us a basic introduction to the fascinating Tamil language and will continue to generously provide us with weekly lessons until we become well-versed. The members of the…

The cyclone season is upon us! Up first (and hopefully last) was Cyclone Jal. On Sunday, November 7th we woke to dark skies and slow rain. Within hours the whole storm would be upon us so this meant it was time to get ready! Volunteers who had heard our request for help the night before,…