A group foraging walk through the property's greenery

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Camps, Workshops & Gatherings

Nine years of camps, workshops, biodiversity walks, and retreats — from a single afternoon to a week at a time.

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Forage & Feast camp-night poster collage: a misty tree at sunrise, a forest foraging trail, the Malabar Hut cabin, and a wildlife identification chart.

25–26 October 2025

Forage & Feast: Camp Night

A camp night on foraging — walk, gather, cook, and eat what the land offers, with Foraging Trails and Tales.

  • workshop
  • food
  • foraging
  • Overnight event (2 days)
An Indian Silverbill at TVC

30–31 August 2025

3Bs&1H

4 editions

TVC's recurring biodiversity walk — see every edition on its own page →

  • biodiversity
  • walk
  • Overnight event (2 days)

24 November 2024

Volunteer Day @ TVC

It is now 7 years since we started this journey so we thought we will invite volunteers to come see the transformation. This year we are opening this event to 20 volunteers/enthusiasts who would like to come visit us and understand about the project, get some hands on experience

  • volunteering
  • Day event
Young Naturalist Overnight Camp poster collage: a farm hut, a cooking activity with vegetables, and a craft table with decorated birdhouses.

27–28 April 2024

Young Naturalist Overnight Camp

A camp for parents and kids (6–10 years) — a guided farm walk, hands-on cooking, storytelling, star gazing, and journaling.

  • camping
  • food
  • stargazing
  • Overnight event (2 days)
Event poster for Introduction to Permaculture and Community Living, with a watercolor illustration of the Melagiri hills.

22–23 July 2023

Introduction to Permaculture & Community Living

A 1-night/2-day introduction to TVC — why we chose permaculture as a design principle, the land's topology, water management, and community living.

  • permaculture
  • workshop
  • camping
  • Overnight event (2 days)
Participants foraging for wild greens in a grassy meadow during a Walk, Pick and Cook session.

8 January 2023

Walk, Pick & Cook

Walk, Pick & Cook Forage in the wild for edible weeds and healthy local food with Suresh Kumar of Surjapura Curries.

  • workshop
  • food
  • Day event
Hand-drawn Eval/Apply diagram — the classic SICP illustration of Lisp's evaluation cycle — on The Lambda Retreat's event graphic.

11–16 December 2022

The Lambda Retreat

A week long exploration into the nature of computation, abstractions, programming paradigms and programming languages. “My aim is to show that the heavenly machine is not a kind of divine, live being, but a kind of clockwork...' — Johannes Kepler (letter to Herwart von Hohenburg,

  • retreat
  • Overnight event (6 days)

19–20 November 2022

Star Gazing Camp

Astronomy basics and telescope observation, guided farm walk, birdwatching, and a morning trek, hosted with Linger.

  • camping
  • stargazing
  • Overnight event (2 days)
Volunteers surveying and clearing a dry hillside plot at TVC.

18 December 2021

Volunteer Day@TVC: Chop & Drop; Area Survey

Hands-on chop and drop mulching around the food forest, plus an area-wide survey of plant life, co-hosted with Beforest.

  • volunteering
  • Day event
Stargazing Camp event poster with a silhouette illustration of a family and telescope under a starry night sky.

4–5 December 2021

Star Gazing Camp

A night under a sky unpolluted by city lights, with a high-end astronomy telescope, an astronomer, campfire stories, and a farm walk.

  • camping
  • stargazing
  • Overnight event (2 days)
Event poster for Introduction to Regenerative Thinking, with a watercolor illustration of the Melagiri hills.

27–28 November 2021

Introduction to Regenerative Thinking: A Short Take on Permaculture

Dates: 27th and 28th November. This is a 1.5 days workshop being conducted in partnership with team Ananas (https://ananas.design/) who helped us with the design of our farm based on permaculture. The workshop will involve understanding the concepts as well as doing on gr

  • workshop
  • permaculture
  • Overnight event (2 days)
Split image: a craftsman standing in a field, and a row of handwoven bamboo baskets of different sizes on a table at TVC.

25 September 2021

Traditional Craft of Making Bamboo Basket

The traditional craft of making baskets has been slowly fading away as plastic and other material have replaced them. However, as a community we our attempt has been to move towards more sustainable material. The workshop is a hands on exercise to help the participants g

  • craft
  • workshop
  • Day event
Rows of young tree saplings in nursery bags at TVC.

21 August 2021

Of Seeds and Saplings and Growing Trees

One of the primary dreams for any new farm owner is to plant and grow trees. We envision having a large canopy of trees providing not just visual appeal but also produce clean air to breath. If you are new to setting up a farm then you will have lots of questions. What t

  • workshop
  • Day event
Aerial view of a bare hillside plot at TVC being reshaped with terraces, hills in the background.

20 February 2021

How to Grow a Forest

20 Feb 2021 - How to grow a forest. Forests are self sustaining eco-systems. As part of our plan at TVC, we have left aside roughly 30% of our land to develop it as a wild life corridor. But getting to a self sustaining ecosystem may not be as easy as you think. This one

  • workshop
  • permaculture
  • Day event
Workshop participants seated on colorful mats under TVC's bamboo pavilion, listening to a facilitator.

23 January 2021

Living your Being

A daylong workshop was conducted with learnings based on the couple’s (Ranjan & Reva) pursuit to find their own normal. Reva and Ranjan of Primalise have been living in an (almost) off-grid mud house - with no furniture and appliances. They are attempting to go back to being

  • workshop
  • Day event
Thatched bamboo pavilion at TVC overlooking the Melagiri hills, set up with benches and a whiteboard for a camp-night session.

31 October – 1 November 2020

TVC: Camp Night & Visioning

An overnight camp and community visioning session at the farm.

  • camping
  • community
  • Overnight event (2 days)