Blog - Farm Hill Learning

Blog Page of Farm Hill Learning community.

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General
Join us as a teacher-learner!

Invitation to join Farm Hill Learning Community as a teacher/co-learner!

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Learning
A play about Ambedkar

What a wonderful book to introduce Ambedkar to children!

Venu GVGK
November 2, 2023 · 2 min read
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Learning
Gandhi Jayanti

We celebrated Gandhi Jayanti, learning about Gandhi over a term!

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General
Ganesha 2023

We made our own Ganesha murtis out of clay, and guess how many flowers we found on farm hill!

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Learning
Seeds go from place to place!

At Farm Hill, primary school is all about observation and exploration - here is an instance of the same!

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Sustainability
The power of rains and streams

How much water flows in a stream in an hour?

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Sustainability
Visit to a farm in a rain shadow area

We visit a friend's farm in a rain shadow area and learn about sustainability

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Travel
Visit to Janapada Seva Trust, Melukote

We visit Janapada Seva Trust, Melukote and stay at Hosa Jeevana Daari. Get an introduction to livelihood training.

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General
A friend in the neighborhood

Maram oru varam - a tree is a gift!

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Learning
Education and Farming

It's natural for plants to grow and humans to learn. Why do we then struggle so much to educate?

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Sustainability
Wastewater Management At Farm Hill

Our 10th grader wrote this as part of an assignment on wastewater management. I hope you agree our experiments with toilets are interesting!

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Gardening
New Kitchen Garden Patch

Planting plan and layout of the new garden patch

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Sustainability
Rains - 2019 and 2021

The rains this season here, have been late, and heavy. We try see how rains in 2019 and this year compare.

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Sustainability
Water Harvesting

We live in a rain shadow region, so a sustainable approach to water management has to include rain water harvesting and tapping the shallow aquifer, along with a bore well.

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Gardening
Deva Kanchana

A beautiful flower, with medicinal properties!

Mor Milaga మజ్జిగ మిరపకాయలు sundried salted chillies - Cover Image
Food
Mor Milaga మజ్జిగ మిరపకాయలు sundried salted chillies

We make salter sundried chillies. Popular and yummy accompaniment to a variety of Indian food.

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Food
Sundried onion masala balls

We make sundried onion masala balls for the first time. Recipe included.

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General
Forest Fire!

We fought a forest fire that was spreading to the campus and learnt a few lessons.

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Learning
Middle School Poetry

A poem our 11 year olds wrote in their English class, on the lines of "That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!"

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Learning
Everyone is important

Farm hill is on a break this week and kids have been working at home, with online support. These responses of our first grader to a home work assignment made our day!! 😊