Education

Fair Trade Alliance Kerala invited 2011 festival-goers to visit working Keralan multi-crop farms.

FTAK is a group of farmers committed to the global fair trade market for coffee, spices, coconut and cashew crops. You can see sustainable organic farming on multi-crop farms and witness the attempts of a group of Kerala farmers to recapture their homestead farming traditions against the onslaught of mono-crop commercial agriculture. Their organic farming practices are critical to protect the biodiversity of the Nilgiri Biosphere, an environmental hotspot that is soon to be accorded World Heritage Status by the United Nations.

Located in the Wayanad District of Kerala, the farms are reached by an exciting overnight train journey from Thiruvananthapuram and three hours by road. Local transport and hospitality is provided by the farmers themselves.

Contact Tomy Mathew at Elements India for more details and to arrange a trip.

Hay Festival Kerala works with global partner the British Council on bringing the British Council Connecting Classrooms initiative to Kerala.

Connecting Classrooms builds lasting partnerships between schools in the UK and others around the world. Through these partnerships, the programme develops trust and understanding between young people in different societies, creating a safer and more connected world for the future.

The programme offers collaborative projects for learners, professional development for teachers, school leaders and cluster co-ordinators, and eligibility for school accreditation.

Find out more.

Education

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Hay Fever - our festival for families and children, runs across the ten days of the festival where children have the chance to meet and talk to their favourite writers and take part in workshops to create wonderful memories and develop new skills in imaginative thinking and self expression.

Hf2 is our festival for teenagers - with an awesome line-up featuring the movers and shakers of Young Adult writing, Hf2 is a mind-blowing experience for 13-plus.

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We care passionately about our environment. Hay-on-Earth debates the latest thoughts on climate change and environmental awareness.

In 2006 we started the Hay-on-Earth Project to audit, address and change our ecological sustainability.