Exposure visit to SLI from Mahalir Thittam, Erode

A team from Mahalir Thittam, Erode consists of Mr A. Srinivasan, Project Director, Mahalir Thittam, APOs, staffs and Cluster Facilitators visited SLI as a part their exposure visits.

The team interacted with members of Amirtha and Meera Herbal products Enterprises and visited Auroville Village Action Group and understand the enterprise's activities of women's' group.

Project Director would like to develop many activities with the coordination of SLI for CLGs of Erode District.

Annual Seed Festival is coming up!

One of the big highlights 2017 has been on 26^th of July when SLI organized its first Seed Festival. On this occasion, there were more than 20 seed savers from across Tamil Nadu and around 300 varieties of traditional seeds. Students from many different schools in and around Auroville learned about the local flora and diversity in various presentations while seed exchange happened all day. The festival further included talks, exhibition of seeds and knowledge exchange sessions. 

This year, SLI is aiming to repeat the huge success of the Seed Festival on Saturday, the 28th of July.

We look forward to welcome you!

Seed Festival on the 28th of July