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ADVAITA VEDANTA SADHANA
(A company limited by guarantee)
Achievements and performance
a. Main achievements of the Charity
The work of AVS has been carried out through its sister organisation the association AVS France. AVS UK owns land in the French Pyrenees, which has been transformed into a biodiversity reservoir and educational centre by our sister organisation in France, the association AVS (France). This work falls into four main categories
A: Water Retention Work
B: Terrace construction
C: Soil cultivation
D: Biodiversity planting
E: Educational work.
The work of 2024 was a continuation of the activities undertaken in 2023. At AVS’s biodiversity reservoir at Ginoles, the trustees undertook over 60 projects. The main ones were as follows
1. Transport community green waste to the site and distribute it.
2. Identify local sources of fresh fruit and vegetable waste
3. Nurture the soil biome on terrace 4.
4. Nurture the soil biome on section 3 of terrace 6
5. Excavate section 2 of terrace 4.
6. Pin the edges of terrace 3.
7. Continue the excavation of the hugelbed on terrace 5
8. Extend the front of terrace 5 westwards
9. Protect terraces 7-8 from pigs and deer
10. Fine tune the height and gradient of section 4 of terrace 6
11. Build a raised area for the marquee
12. Sow and fence off the marquee mound
13. Collect 15 cubic metres of sawdust from the timber mill
14. Excavate a massive sawdust storage trench
15. Research & design a super-composter
16. Identify site location criteria for the super-composter
17. Identify location for the super-composter
18. Research plastic free lighting for the workshop
19. Obtain stones for the wall foundation of the super-composter
20. Run the project’s first internship
21. Build and test and Earth-Pit Sawdust composter
22. Create green material bays
23.Widen the lower roadway
24. Choose and appoint a new trustee
25. Research locally available wooden gates and gateposts or making them in-house.
26. Design boar and deer fencing around the bottom meadow
27. Mark out the new fence line.
28. Gather round stones for hermitage building pillar foundations
29. Obtain and plant bio-seeds for green manure.
30. Germinate thatch reed.
31. Study bamboo fence design
32. Research and buy an electric off-road all terrain vehicle
33. Design a trailer for the EV
34. Test grow Vigna radiata
35. Research and purchase a chain saw
36. Sort cut and stack hugelkultur bed timbers
37. Gather and sort branches for the hugelkultur bed
38. Make a turf growing box
39. Move 40 cubic metres of leaf compost
40.Waterproof the lake bed
41. Streamline biodiversity land acquisition
42. Respond to offers of land
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