26th March 2010 by Becky This week the Kindergarten project has pushed on with preparing the fence for the children’s garden. We loaded up a tractor trailer with solid granite posts, tools, 8 fence panels, 10 volunteers and headed off to the Kindergarten! Progress was fast, and after using a crow-bar and scooping out the…
19th March 2010, By Helen An exciting new development for Sadhana Forest in the past few weeks has been the Green Kindergarten Project. Always keen to develop and improve relations with local villages we have begun to work with a local kindergarten in Trichitambalam, Koot Road. A group of Israeli volunteers called Adam LeAdam noticed…
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…
By Stephanie Garvin I had the pleasure of undertaking a permaculture design course as part of the three year training programme in November 2009. In true Sadhana Forest style we were encouraged to share this knowledge as far as possible. Permaculture is a unique approach to the practice of sustainable farming, gardening and living, by…
Look at the branch on the right side: this tree looked dead for months and now it’s growing an amazing amount of new leaves, thanks to our compost tea fertilisation plan!!
More than 160 people lived in Sadhana Forest the last weeks.
By Niki Last weekend Buddha Smiles, a dear friend of Sadhana Forest, invited us to celebrate their annual school event with them. Buddha smiles is a community that works with children and involves them in all of their community projects, including environmental education, permaculture, and social outreach. Around 25 of us, including 3 families from…
Last week a group of Sadhana Forest’s (long term) volunteers participated in a workshop on cooking and veganism, as a follow-up on the famous Peas vs Pills workshop that Dr. Nandita Shah regularly gives in Auroville. During five days we cooked one or two meals a day and discussed the meanings of the vegan choices. This…
by Myrtille Last Friday was Brazil night at the Eco Film Club, to start February the festive month of carnival. Our day began early, 6:15 AM like every day of the week. Together in a big circle singing a Brazilian song that woke us up in alegria, joy. Today you’re in Brazil, you have to…
Our forest work during this time of year is focused on water conservation. Many of our volunteers have been spending their mornings making bunds to help the forest. Bunds are small water conservation earth mounds that help save water during the rainy season. A lot of the bunding work has been focused around challenge hill…
