Children from Nandanam Kindergarten at the Farm Festival.
From November to March it’s always busy in Auroville, with
the community hosting performances, workshops and exhibitions and welcoming the
outside world. This year, adding to all the other activities, were farming and
agriculture-related programmes. These included ‘From the soil to the plate’ (at
Buddha Garden), Permaculture courses, Sunday Farm Walks, Krishna’s Circle
Garden Project (at Solitude Farm), Joy of Learning sessions on Farming (an
Auroville Campus Initiative), the Auroville Farm Festival 2016, the Pongal fest
display by Meenakshi and her friends, an Annapurna Farm visit (with over 100
participants) and the revival of the Saturday Markets – to name but a few.
The Auroville Farm Festival, organized by the Farm Group
(FG) and its distribution unit, Foodlink, took place around Pongal, Tamil
Nadu’s traditional harvest festival. The Farm Festival was intended to remind
the Aurovilians of Mother’s vision t...
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