Permaculture in India

I've just come back from my first visit to India, where I stayed on site at the Timbaktu Collective. In a drought-prone area in Andhra Pradesh, Southern India, the Collective is regenerating the land, bringing back wildlife, and restructuring the social systems for the people living and working in the area.

I was expecting to see an incredible example of regeneration, and nature all around me. I did see that. As I sat in the back of a flatbed truck bumping along as we drove through the hills, I saw hoopoes, sparrow larks, and peacocks, I was told about the spot where the leopard normally sits, and saw blackbucks (Indian antelopes) hiding in long grass. I met the people who created this, heard how they had planted it by hand, and how they had regenerated their social systems.

This is what I was not expecting to see: a 600 acre factory being built, right alongside this land.

You can read my article here, or read about social regeneration at Timbaktu here.