Tag Archives: place ownership

blooms of spring india - amaltas, palash, mahua

Blooms of Spring – April News Digest from Rainmatter Foundation

These weeks of April witness the bloom of flowers. Konna (Cassia fistula) hangs like golden chandeliers across Kerala for Vishu, palash sets central India ablaze as the “flame of the forest”, and mahua begins its quiet predawn shower of flowers that tribes gather for food, drink, and income. In our ecosystem of partners, April has […]

Village Resource Center, Ramnagar, Kendrapada, Odisha

Nurturing Custodians of a Place: The Kendrapada Sandbox in Odisha

In 2023, a group of partners came together and took a collaborative approach to build a sandbox. The idea was to test and create a place-based, ecosystem-led model that can build climate resilience and community stewardship. What is a place, though? It is more than the sum of its parts, the geography, the people and […]