The beauty of Farm Hill in pictures!

First mango shower

2024-02-24

First mango shower of the season, and the smell of dry leaves getting wet!

Hot and blooming day!

2024-02-18

Campfire and barbecue

2024-02-08

New kid at farm hill!

2024-02-05

We got a couple of goats sometime back and one of them gave birth to a kid! Welcoming haDDi!!

Flavors of food!

2023-11-01

Chaya is a plant like moringa. It grows wild and can be grown as a fence. The leaves can be eaten. Here below is chaya in dal, banana fry, banana flower paruppusili, and butter milk, served with red rice. A more native and more tasty thali, I have never had.

Life skills!

2023-10-03

Children learn to use ropes to make ladders and climb trees!

Another day in primary school!

2023-07-25

Shishu on a rainy day!

2023-07-10

Yoga day like any other day!

2023-06-21

The yoga we do every day, we did on yoga day too!

Science class

2023-06-19

We have a shishu class now - 3 to 5 year olds. There a few chickens and goats. And that's a science class!

Love of nature

2023-06-14

"How do I make my children develop interest in reading?", is a question I am asked very frequently. You can't make them. Let the environment around them be filled with books, let the adults around them engage with books and children, and the children will naturally learn to engage with books. "How do I nurture a love of nature in children?", is a question I ask myself frequently. The answer is similar. Let them live close to nature, let the adults around them be engaged with nature and children, and children naturally learn to love nature. Photo - children during a short break, this morning at farm hill.

Mulberries!

2023-05-27

Lotus

2023-05-18

Hungry caterpillar

2023-05-08

One mor child gets introduced to hungry caterpillar!

Lotus seed pod!

2023-05-07

It's so intricately made to hold the seeds

Golden showers!

2023-04-13

రేల/cassia fistula

Cabbages

2023-04-12

Vallarai Keerai/Indian Pennywort/Saraswati leaf

2023-03-27

Medicinal herb used in brain tonics. Grows freely at farm hill.

A proper Lotus pond

2023-03-13

Now, that's a proper Lotus pond, ain't it?

Companions!

2023-03-12

"what kind of education do you aim for at farm hill?" The kind that leads to this on a Sunday morning!

Spring...

2023-02-05

Sankhupushpi

2023-01-19

Have you seen these varieties before?

Parijata

2023-01-13

...sunkissed winter mornings!

Flower song

2023-01-08

Trees. Sing flowers, Gently.

Royakotta trek

2022-12-20

Beans Harvest

2022-12-19

Flower tea!

2022-12-18

Lotus Pond

2022-12-17

Dewey mornings!

2022-12-15

Beauty is everywhere

2022-12-05

Learning

2022-11-29

There is a lot to learn, watching a slide being built!

One year apart

2022-11-20

Notice the tree!

Hidden pool

2022-11-19

The loveliest things are free and public! Pictured is a small pool formed by a little brook running next to Farm Hill.

Air potatoes

2022-10-11

Our own air potato! Dioscorea bulbifera, also known as bitter yam, air yam, cheeky yam, potato yam etc. is a species of true yam. It's called air potato because the bulbs look like potatos and grow on the vine instead of in the ground. It's edible and grows wild like a weed! We planted a bulb about six months back and forgot about it. It's grown like this today. Can't wait to taste it!

Wild flowers

2022-10-10

Wild passion flower

2022-10-07

Passiflora foetida. The fruits are small and taste sweet/sour. Amazingly, the tender leaves are edible and the flowers are beautiful!

Coconut craft!

2022-09-22

Our coconut craft teacher made a model scooter with turning wheels and all, just for fun! And see how proud bubloo is of his father! 😁

Onam 2022

2022-09-15

Slightly belated Onam celebrations at farm hill. While we have taken artistic liberties with the pookkalam, the sadya was much more authentic thanks to recipes from the malayali members of the community. This was a first for many of us and much fun was had with everyone working together to create the food and decorations!

Gifts of Nature

2022-09-10

Found on a morning walk

The pond

2022-07-28

Rainy

2022-07-27

Water lilly!

2022-07-22

Our first water lilly!

Butterfly migration!

2022-07-21

Annual blue tiger migration observed at farm hill. The plant is a variety of sunnhemp.

Ixora Indica!

2022-06-15

White ixora. Smells sweet, grows wild.

New fountain!

2022-05-20

Temples and uses

2022-05-16

We put a temple to one of its original uses, as a place where people get together, chill out and learn!

Summer harvest and holiday goodies!

2022-04-28

Mango chilli pickle!!!

2022-04-27

Lilies!!

2022-04-21

Hibiscus Season

2022-04-19

Sundried Tomatoes

2022-04-19

That's about 10kg of tomatoes done in an hour and half.

The faces of a flower

2022-04-15

One flower, many faces!

A summer morning walk

2022-04-12

Clear blue skies, and we meet 'kids' from another school! 🙃

Harvest today!

2022-04-07

This is the first summer we have the water, manpower and the infrastructure to water plants. The first harvest of this summer!

Mooli Harvest!!

2022-03-07

Totally organically grown!

Build it yourself...

2022-03-07

Children and adults creating and traversing an obstacle course in the games time.

The sun sets...

2022-03-02

Beautiful sunsets are a part of life at farm hill!

Visit to HutK Railway Koduru

2022-02-19

HutK...the emerging story of a rural doctor and his passion for design, education and society!!

Grass flowers

2022-02-11

Flowers@Farm Hill Spring 2021

2021-04-02

Palash

2021-02-12

The beauty of Palash. This tree is right outside Farm Hill campus.

Courage!

2021-02-12

Ever wondered what courage looks like? 🙂 Meet Puli.

Awake. Asleep.

2021-02-09

New kittens at Farm Hill

Happy Pongal!

2021-01-14

Pongal celebrations at Farm Hill!

Rain in April 2020

2020-04-29

The rain! See the trenches holding water.

Our Stove

2020-04-21

Wood burning, mud build stove. See how easy to not just keep it clean but also make it look new!

Farm Hill Campus

2019-06-15

Farm Hill Campus beauty