The Age of Stupid

Yeah ! The new huts are now happy homes ! Construction of individual huts for long term volunteers has been happening over the past few weeks. With the help of  Manu, our good friend and architect, and a hard working team of Tamil builders, five huts are now fully complete. These huts are being built…

During the past month and a half, our Forest team has been working through the winter monsoon, which arrived late and brought very strong rains. The downpour provided our Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest trees with much needed water. While work continued through the clouds and rain, the monsoon energy changed much of our day to…

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…

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…

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…