Kokum Harvest Forest Festival (May)
The Angadibail forest has plenty of naturally grown Kokum – a fruit tree species endemic to the Western Ghats. The kokum fruit found in abundance in this region has a short shelf life and much goes to waste, so the rural people and us at Buda decided to revive this fruit and come up with a concept to harvest, process and sell the fruit in a traditional way. Together, we designed the Kokum Festival – an experiential learning program to pick, process, pack and sell this product.
We celebrate the harvest with community participation, a beautiful way to harvest and process Kokum fruits. We invite participants for a week in the summer to join us for the complete journey of the Kokum fruit from tree to jar. Learn to make juice from the pulp, preserve from the shells smothered in sugar, and butter from grinding the roasted seeds. Also get to experience an alternate way of making wine, soaps and bio enzymes. Apart from that, climb trees, sit around a fire under the night sky and sleep in machans surrounded by fields!
We celebrate the harvest with community participation, a beautiful way to harvest and process Kokum fruits. We invite participants for a week in the summer to join us for the complete journey of the Kokum fruit from tree to jar. Learn to make juice from the pulp, preserve from the shells smothered in sugar, and butter from grinding the roasted seeds. Also get to experience an alternate way of making wine, soaps and bio enzymes. Apart from that, climb trees, sit around a fire under the night sky and sleep in machans surrounded by fields!