Art with Bees
In these times of lockdown, staying home need not be boring! Not when there’s so much to explore, right in our backyards (or yard on any side, as the case may be!). Explore your surroundings and get creative with this ‘make me a bee’ fun event. Details in the poster attached below Where: From the […]
Atop the Nilgiris plateau – from down under
An interest expressed and explored, soon turned into a one-day Nilgiris socio-cultural cum ecological experience that NNHS facilitated for Dakshin Endeavours, for their student group who were visiting India, from Australia for an experiential visit to India. The day long event that ran on February 11, 2020, took the students on a toda ethno-cultural experience […]
Seasonwatch is here, in the Nilgiris!
NNHS along with Keystone kicked off a Seasonwatch workshop, the first of its kind, to bring Seasonwatch to the Nilgiris. The day long workshop was held in the Keystone campus on 9th March, 2020. Our participants were a mixed group of 9 – 3 teachers from a school and a college in Kotagiri and 6 […]
The School, Chennai – field learning @ Sathy
The School, Chennai, has been a regular to the Nilgiris, bringing their students out for field work and immersion in the various Keystone run community, livelihood and wildlife activities in the region. In 2019, the school came to work with us with 33 XIth std students accompanied by 6 teachers. After some back and forth […]
In search of liquid gold – Semmanarai
Our story of bees and humans is an age old one, and unfolds right here at Semmanarai, a little hamlet some distance away from Kotagiri. Join us on this unique tour to the beautiful landscape to the abode of the bees – a leisurely walking exploration of bees, flowers, streams and farms, as we take […]
Kookalthorai Govt School – Nature and Nurture
A unique program is underway at the Kookalthorai Govt School, near Kotagiri, in the Nilgiris. Located in an agricultural hotbed of the region, the school attracts many students from families involved in intensive agriculture in the landscape. The school, along with Keystone Foundation has embarked on a program that can well serve as a role […]
Anweshana Keystone visit
Anweshana Montessori School from Bengaluru, landed up in Kotagiri on a rainy November morning on 27th November, for a Keystone campus tour. While we had initially planned a village and community visit for them, that had to be cancelled as the heavens opened up on us. So the students assembled for a short screening of […]
Where the birds are
On 8th and 13th November, 2019, students of grade 9 from CSI school came in two groups (20 each, section wise) to be initiated into the subtle art of birding. Simple though it sounds, watching birds requires a lot of attention to detail – about the bird, about its environment, about its behavior in order […]
‘Nature and People’ winter film festival
To quote Isak Dinesen from ‘Out of Africa’, “to be a person is to have a story to tell”. And that is what we strove to bring to the Nilgiris, in this first film festival on the theme of ‘Nature and People’ – stories of people and their lands, from across the Indian peninsula; from […]
Murky waters of the modern world – natural cleaners workshop
29th October, 2019, Kanasu Cafe, Ooty Despite the north-east monsoon pouring down upon us, it was an eager group of women who greeted us at Kanasu café, Ooty as we assembled for another workshop on natural cleaners. As the rains washed down everything around us, we sat down to understand how we might allow these […]
