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About the event
This conference will provide a forum for gardeners from different cities to share with each other their experiences in urban gardening, with a special focus on ‘Community Gardening’. We will have invited speakers, time for discussions, visits to farms and urban gardens and some work sessions. We are hoping that this conference will bring together serious and avid gardeners from all over India who are interested in taking the movement of urban gardening to a national level. In order to enable representation from multiple states, we will be restricting the number of local participants.
Agenda
The brief agenda for the three days is as follows. More details will be added once the sessions are finalized. Sessions covering the following topics have been planned:
- Understanding community gardening in the Indian context,
- Children and urban gardening,
- Food Safety in urban gardens,
- Urban garden designing, and
- Green architecture and urban gardens
Jan 25, Friday
Morning: Inauguration and Opening sessions
Afternoon: Site visits to urban community gardens in Chennai.
Jan 26, Saturday
Participants from outside Chennai/Tamilnadu will have the option to visit two farms in Auroville. Limited seats are available on first-come-first-serve basis. If you wish to spend more time at Auroville, please consider staying a few more days after the conference and we will be happy to suggest other farms/communities in Auroville that you can visit. For participants from Chennai, we will be organizing these visits later in the year.
Jan 27, Sunday
All day sessions in Chennai.
Accommodation
For participants outside Chennai, we can provide simple shared accommodation at one of our organizing team member’s home, if required.
Registration fee
- Rs. 700/- for Jan 25th and 27th.
- An additional Rs 1000/- for those going to Auroville on 26th.
The registration fee covers the actual costs for the conference (breakfast, lunch, and snacks on all three days), transport to Auroville and back, and expenses related to organizing the conference. Any local travel to and from the venue is not included. If for some reason you are unable to afford this fee, you can contact the organizers.
The registration fee for the conference is subsidized because of the venue and local accommodation being offered in kind. If you are willing and able to, please consider making a voluntary contribution (of any amount) towards conference scholarships. Please inform the organizers of your voluntary contribution in the registration form so that it can be kept track of.
You can pay the registration fee either by cheque or ECS transfer.
Cheque: Your cheque should be made out in favour of RESTORE HEALTH LIVELIHOODS AND NATURE and can be posted to the following address: reStore, 5, 1st Cross Street, Karpagam Gardens, Adyar, Chennai 600 020.
ECS transfer: The ECS transfer details are given below. Funds can be transferred electronically to:
RESTORE HEALTH LIVELIHOODS AND NATURE
A/c no: 31950253982
State Bank of India - SME Branch Adyar
IFS Code: SBIN0013361
Once transferred, please email the organizers with the details of the date, amount and UTR (reference no), so that the credit into the account can be verified. The organizers also need to issue a receipt for which full name and address is needed.
Registration
Contact details
reStore
5, 1st Cross Street, Karpagam Gardens,
Adyar, Chennai 600020.
Email: info@restoregardens.org
Kavitha Ramakrishnan - 95000 44897
Sangeetha Sriram - 94440 07649
Anita Balasubramanian - 98402 49251
