One beautiful contribution came after the cyclone, at the beginning of the year from a volunteer named Claudius. His wish was to fund and build a Yurt and share his knowledge of the subject with anyone here interested to learn.
Construction began shortly and a team of volunteers rushed to finish the Yurt in the time, just over a month, that claudius had left in India.
Thank you very much Claudius!!!
To help our Sunday Community Meetings run with a little more fun and joviality, it was decided we would introduce a new twist. Although we embrace the forest and community work here at Sadhana Forest, the sharing of this out at the meetings wasn’t the most exciting process, so we thought a bit of FANCY…
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…
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…
This fall Sadhana Forest is hosting its third Permaculture Design Course running from September to December 2011. The course is half way through now and inline with the schedule we arrived at the item that we have all been waiting for: a field trip to Madhya Pradesh!
Last Sunday, 12 children representing 4 diferent places, Moratandi, Trichitambaram, Kullapalayam and Pondicherry came to Sadhana Forest to plan the new building that will be their shelter in Children’s Land. We had the presence of Manu, an Architect from Auroville, to help them to develop their ideas. Actually, they agreed to call this place “The…
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