Navdanya and Dehradun

Study trip meets travel trip.  There is so much to say about the past week spent in Uttarakhand.  From studying at Vandana Shiva's Navdanya to visiting a Van Gujjar village, a nomadic tribe who spend their time between the high himalayas and the foothills in Uttarakhand. I've weeded a field of organic tumeric, splashed in the Ganges river, explored British ruins on craggy mountain peaks and watched the sunset over the Himalayas ( and rise!)

I also am pretty sure I want to spend the month of November in the Himalayas most likely studying something with the glaciers and agriculture. Big topic I know, but many things to read ahead. 

I am going to stick to pictures for this post. The following are from two main places. The first is Navdanya (http://www.navdanya.org/), an org which is pioneering the conservation of both tribal knowledge and seed sharing while simultaneously combatting the destruction of food cultures by multinationals and industrial farming. The second is a combination of the Van Gujjar settlement and Dehradun. A few pictures are of our attempt to fix the diesel pipe on our bus using gum. The greatest part, it worked!