I will let the photo captions do all the explanation this month 🙂 Regards Sudhakar
Category: Experiences
Summer VaanaVizha Immersion 2026 – A Farm Experience for Families
This summer, we are opening Vaanavil Farm & Food Forest to families with children aged 8–15 for a very special 4-day farm experience. 📅 Friday morning to Monday evening · 4 days, 3 nights 👨👩👧 2 families per batch · Maximum 8 participants, Minimum 6 participants🌈 Hosted at Vaanavil Farm & Food Forest, Vikramasingapuram, Tirunelveli…
Vaanavil Diaries : February 2026
Happenings and thoughts from Vaanavil Farm & Food Forest, Vikramasingapuram, Tirunelveli District I will let the photos do rest of the talking for our February story. Regards Sudhakar
A Taste of Farm Life: Experiences from 2 Hours to 2 Days at Vaanavil Farm & Food Forest
When people arrive at Vaanavil Farm & Food Forest, the first thing they say is, “This doesn’t feel like a resort… it feels like someone’s home.” And that’s exactly what we want it to be. Most people see farms as places that produce food. But for us, Vaanavil Farm & Food Forest is a living…
Rising from the Rain : Our Compost Toilet Chronicles! December 2023
We lost our compost toilet’s walls, partially, and roof to the torrential downpour over the session that lasted 36+ hours in our farm between 16th December evening to 18th December noon. The deluge that occurred in Tirunelveli and neighbouring districts has been atrributed to cyclonic storm near Sri Lanka. We had transplanted our rice saplings…
Karadi Tales from in and around Vaanavil
Karadi | கரடி (noun | Tamil) A horrendous incident involving a sloth bear and villagers occurred in a village less than 10 kms from our farm this month. A sloth bear had attacked a man riding on his bike and then mauled the faces of couple of men who came to his rescue. https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2022/nov/07/sloth-bear-attacks-three-in-tenkasi-two-left-critical-2515727.html (Trigger…
Obituaries of the Wild around Vaanavil
~ 10 minute read Trigger warning : couple of photos in the blog include pictures of dead animals. We keep posting a lot of happy stories about the farm life and the domesticated animals we rear. But the complete picture is more uglier than the image social media prods us to create. We want to…
Introducing Vanya and our childbirth story
When Noushadya found out she was missing her periods in the month of May last year, she took a home pregnancy test. To be extra sure, she took it twice and then we informed our parents. To confirm the pregnancy, we visited a nursing home at Ambasamudram. And that’s how we had embarked on the…
Spotted : Russell’s Viper
On the lazy overcast sunday of the extended Diwali weekend, Noushadya and I were watching Jai Bhim, a well made movie inspired from real events based on the discrimination of Irular tribe by society, police and legal system of Tamil Nadu. The Irular tribe is known for their snake catching abilities amongst others. Half way…
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