Week 6_Practice Week
With week 5, the thematic classroom sessions of NFLC came to an end and week 6 was practice week for the students, wherein they were given the opportunity to actually work with/in one of the Keystone organisations, based on their interest and/or their longer term research objectives. Hailey and Sowmiya decided to go with their […]
Week 1_Kick starting NFLC
Learning from each other, and through field work in the Nilgiris landscape are the founding principles of the Nilgiri Field Learning Centre program. Spanning over 15 weeks between January and May, it brings together students from Cornell and the indigenous communities of the Nilgiris, in an effort to develop capacity for appropriate research in a […]
Week 11_Agalya’s story
My name is Agalya, I am going to talk about THE CHALLENGES THAT I FACED DURING THE INTERVIEW THIS WEEK. This week Read did not come, only Sangeetha and I went to do interviews. We went to interview a sister at Thadasalhatty Village, since that sister was herding goats, she said she can’t give us […]
Week 10_The challenges I faced
Week 9_First week of the research phase
My name is Monthish, I am going to talk about the FIRST WEEK OF THE RESEARCH PHASE. In this first week, we worked in both Bikkapathymund and Ebanadu village. Our topic is wild edible plants. We will be doing a research on that, were researching on that as well. In this whole week, for the […]
Week 8_I went home
My name is Rajkumar, This full week I was at home, so I am going to tell about the HAPPENINGS OF MY HOUSE. One week fully, I was having a jolly time with my mom, sister, brother etc,there I was also helping them with everything. Without wasting my time during the leave, I was going […]
Week 7_ First time cultivating experience
My name is Chitra, I am going to talk about MY FIRST TIME CULTIVATING EXPERIENCE. They took us to Kookalthori. There was a nursery, that they showed us around. There were small, small saplings for sales. We were taught how to use a GPS. They also taught us how to sow seeds. we were asked […]
Week 6_We went searching
My name is Sangeetha, I am now going to talk about, HOW WYATT WENT MISSING… We went to Hassanur for a festival. There was a pond and many birds were at its corner, so, Wyatt said that he is going to take a look at the birds. While returning from the festival, as a bad […]
Week 5_The thing that surprised me this week
We went for a forest walk, while walking, only after reaching a certain distance I was able to see a big pond. It was very beautiful to look at that pond. There were a lot of small white, white stones surrounding the pond, it was very beautiful to look at, but only after getting closer […]
Week 4_Nadhiya’s story
My name is Nadhiya, I am going to tell about my first interview experience – Livelihoods. One week we went to Bangalapadigai for field work. We interviewed the women who were working at Aadhimalai center about their livelihoods. Then we asked many questions to the women, they were answering for all that we asked. Then, […]
