Seven Years in the Soil: A Free Farmers for Forests Exhibition

A free walk-in exhibition on how farmers across India are bringing trees back. Build a bee hotel, make seed balls and more. All ages.

Farmers for Forests turns seven this December. To mark it, we're opening a free, walk-in exhibition at the Bangalore International Centre: the story of how farmers across India are bringing trees back to their land, told through photographs, art and hands-on activities.

Who we are

Farmers for Forests (F4F) is a non-profit that works with smallholder farmers to grow and protect India's tree cover. We support farmers in planting trees alongside their crops, work with communities to protect forests, and run Biodiversity Hubs in Pune, Bengaluru and Chennai. We also build open-source drone and AI tools to track how trees grow.

What you'll see

• Seven years in one walk-through, from our first pilots near Pune to forest work in Gadchiroli
• Farmers in their own words: portraits and stories from the field
• What changes when trees come back to a farm
• How drones and AI help us count and monitor trees
• And more

What you can do

• Build a bee hotel
• Make seed balls
• More hands-on activities for kids and adults

Good to know

• Entry is free and open to everyone. All ages welcome.
• Walk in any time from noon. Stay for ten minutes or the whole afternoon.
• The gallery is open on 2 and 3 December.
• Registering is optional but helps us plan for numbers.