two weeks later

Last Friday, December 18, we celebrated Sadhana Forest’s 6th Birthday. It was a very special Friday night with over 215 friends, guests and volunteers joining us for the festivities! During the celebration, Aviram and Yorit honored the hard work of Balu, Swami, Arumugam, and Mani who have been and continue to be integral to the…

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…

Volunteers from Sadhana Forest are in Madhya Pradesh this week, in Central India, about to begin a new forestation project. Tom, Becky and Niki have travelled up with Aviram and the Rozin family to take a look at the 10-acre piece of land belonging to the Mata Anandamayi Peeth ashram at Omkareshwar. Following a presentation by Aviram in…

Here in Sadhana Forest we are growing a Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest. But the trees are not the whole story. This ecosystem supports a huge variety of wildlife and we are lucky enough to encounter these creatures every day! See the photos below to see a tiny selection of some of the invertebrates and amphibians we share…

Hello Sadhanaites from around the globe!!!! We just wanted to update you on some of the wonderful things that have been planted in the forest and in the garden recently. On Friday, a dedicated and wonderful team of volunteers, led by our current and very handsome forest coordinator, planted 25 TDEF trees using the ‘heaps,’…