Nilgiris Earth Festival is highlights from 2024

When it comes to conservation message, two distinct methods often arise. The first is a wonderful celebration-show on the planet, such as the ease of dawn, the song of the ease of the dawn or the shadow of a painted form. It gently reminds us what it may be lost. Stark and urgent, the second method has a mirror for the environmental footprint of humanity. It faces our polluted rivers, extinct species and our own creation smoke -filled sky.

The Nilgiris Earth Festival takes the first approach. It is a celebration of wildlife, food, culture and communication that provides the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, it is balanced with the Understand that brings the responsibility of protection.

More than 5,000 square kilometers wide across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, the Biosphere Reserve has five national parks and four wildlife sanctity networks that combine with Diver and Philaa.

The Kestone Foundation, including three decades of experience of sustainable life, is organized by the Nilgiris Foundation, the festival has become a place where ecology meets the culture. Now in the third year, this four -day celebration (from December 8 to 22) is about the diet and heritage of Nilgiris as much as the durable and climate verb transformation.

Walking nature at the festival | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Fresh

In the third afternoon of the Nilgiris Earth Festival, we arrived at Uti’s Kikui Farms with high-elevator organic production and ferm-to-clone with BIH BIH BIH. He has a reputed rabbu soda kambucha-Salmon Pink and Freothing Broos. Greeting us as soon as you give it. The Misty Mountains frame the scene, mixed with smoke from the barbecue grill operated by Bishant’s chef friends.

Spread is unforgettable: 90% of the whole grain of all grains of wheat, live taco and kale greens with a Badaga buffet made of tucked pizza Polarial, Gosu (Cabbage spread with potatoes and peas), red rice, Spit .

A Badaga farmer of Heritage, Bishal’s family has owned the old tea estate of 150-ear from the 1930s. After working as a chef in the UK, he returned to India to promote organic farming but fought to change the local mentality. He started growing vegetables commercially, made a veggie box and processing the processing surplus in jams and hot serves. Today, it has a growing network in Bengaluru.

“Bio Movement is not just non-caromical farming,” he explains. “It’s about creating living ecosystems, to rumors with insects, critics and life forms.”

Bishanath is the many changes to the Nilgiris Earth. Highlighting stories like him, the focal focuses on people who diminish sustainable living.

Badaga plate on the final day of the festival Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Final day celebrations

The final day of the Nilgiris Earth festivals is such a final, concept, community and festival like the celebration of the land. Tibel Ganguly of Timbaktu Collective, Bengaluru-Kalo Bazar Arsia Bose and Pubulagin Nanbergal touch on the hearts of the region are Gunandrajan: Argently and biodiversity.

Bablu has reflected in the Andhra Pradesh and reflects on him for 3 years. “Margins make the whole. There is no center except the margin,” he said. Arsia talked about his work in the Coffee Landscape of the Western Ghat, where he partner partner with the small farmers to promote biodycity-friendly practice. Meanwhile, the Sundarjan ecologists have shared the grassroots activism experience, including fighting against harmful projects environmentally.

‘Nilgiris: One Shared Wilderness’ after the screening of Santiph Kadur | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

A screening Nilgiris: In a shared desertSanshesh is directed by Kadur, taken to the center of our biosphere. Animals like Gaur and Leopard, and even people, navigate the fragile balance between nature and human occupation.

The stalls point the venue, giving a glimpse of the essence of the region. There are wild honey, hand woven toda shawl and local farmers from the keystone. Lunch is a badaga dish, red rice banquet, fish curry, kuthirabali rice Venapangal, Baragu Biryani, KaraiAnd Puddle Ladu, flowers to serve in the yellow flowers.

Later, a traditional domestic dancing dancing invites a circle that keeps a circle that keeps growing, a metaphor for the community.

The co-founder of the Kistone Foundation and director of the festival reflects the evolution of Roy. “The Nilgiris Earth Festival started as a wild food festival and now it connects people to the landscape and its challenges. This is a awareness movement in the community,” he said. He looks at a future where the festival invites the brower point of view to the festival deepens its relationship with the land.

When we are driving back to Caimbatore, our cab driver shares the story of the desert. He describes how wild animals – bison, elephant and even a tiger – occasionally blocked his car. Interested, we ask, “They don’t attack?” He laughs and responds with quiet wisdom, “They never do anything. It is the one who occupies us in their place. As long as we respect it, they let us be. And we should be them.”

His words are a fatal reminder that coexistence is not just an idea, a health.