The Srimoyi Center for Permaculture (SCP) is dedicated to climate-resilient living systems through regenerative land use, ecological education, water wisdom, biodiversity restoration, and community wellbeing.

Our Charter 

1. Generate Awareness about Permaculture - How and why it works. Show others what can be done, and how to do it themselves through Permaculture workshops, Farm tours, and Guided Nature walks. 

2. Provide internships to students of: 

• Environmental Studies, Sustainability

• Horticulture 

• Permaculture

• Botany

3. Studies on Permaculture - Study and record the results of permaculture application for a decade. Documenting regenerative fruit systems, biodiversity restoration, ecological living, and sustainable land use.

Media and Communication Winter Internship: 12 Dec 2026 - 9 Jan 2027

We are looking for two interns skilled in writing or videography. 

Responsibilities 

• Create content to promote awareness about Permaculture, document nature and the work that has been done at the Srimoyi Center for Permaculture. 

• Storytelling in the area of environment and climate change using different media.

• Write articles, blogposts, social media posts.

• Create visual content using video, audio and photography. Make short videos for documentation, advocacy, publicity shorts, awareness campaigns, broadcasting, multimedia storytelling, for YouTube, reels for Social media. Create compelling photo essays.

Candidate Profile: 

The ideal profile is  BA 3rd or 4th year Media and Communication students.

Note: This is a field project which will require the student to visit the farms around Bagalur, Tamil Nadu (near Sarjapur) at least four times on Saturdays over the internship period - to photograph, film and collect material for content creation. 

They will need to travel to Bagalur independently using their own transport. During the week they can work from home.

Application:

To apply, send a Whatsapp message to Bhaswati Seal at +91-9845758360 before 25th October, 2026. Please note however that the positions may close earlier if we find suitable candidates. 

Apply with your resume and samples of work. Share why you would like to do this and mention the relevant courses that you have completed at college which will help you in this work.

Environment Science Summer Internship:  15 May 2026 - 12 Jul 2026

SCP Bangalore is currently offering an internship for Environmental Science students. The internship starts immediately and will run till 20th July, 2026.

The work involves:

• Document the permaculture work that has been done by the Center at their two farms near Bagalur, Tamilnadu (on the outskirts of Bangalore). 

• Start a research project in any of these topics - sustainable water usage, soil ecology, 

Mycorrhizal fungal growth, insects diversity.

• Saturday or Sunday morning (weekly once) visit the permaculture site for a field visit to study the ecology, photograph, document and conduct the research work on their chosen topic. A transportation stipend will be provided. The rest of the week is Work from Home.

• Create posts, articles and videos/reels for publication and for social media.

Candidate Profile: 

• Skilled in and interested in one of more of these:

  • Writing

  • Photography

  • Field Research work

• Enjoys spending time outdoors in nature.

• Able to reach the permaculture site once a week.

• Has completed two years of their Undergraduate degree program or a Masters student.

Application:

Apply here for the internship. Share why you would like to do this. Please attach your resume and mention the relevant courses that you have completed at college which will help you in this work.

Areas of work

Internships and studies at SCP Bangalore will cover:

• Above and Below ground biomass

• Soil nitrogen availability at 30 cm, 60 cm and 90 cm below ground

• Arbuscular Mycorrhiza (AM) colonization rates

• ⁠⁠Measure soil Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC)

• Weed separation index 

• Soil aggregate stability

• Water infiltration rate

• Earthworm density

• Nematode composition

• Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) change over the full period

• Experiments with Biochar w.r.t. carbon sequestering

Follow our work

Essays

(Disclaimer: While some of these essays have been compiled with the help of AI - which is an excellent tool available to us today for scouring all published material on the Internet - the most crucial aspect, as always has been to ask the right questions. Our overarching emphasis has been to research and highlight the intricate interconnections between Soil Health, Food Nutrition and eventually Human Health and how one leads to the other in a complex web of life. This happens to be the core essence of Permaculture. Please note that the majority of the references are from peer-reviewed scientific literature.)

Nutrition in our Food systems

• The Crisis in our food

• Nutritional Density from Biological interplays

• Maximizing Growing Systems - a set of presentations

• The Plant Health Pyramid by John Kempf

Forest systems

• Forests as Pharmacies

Notable Research articles, videos, and interviews

• A complete guide to soil microbiology by the Canadian Permaculture Legacy. "This video represents years (literally) of reading books (including university textbooks), podcasts, research papers and digging that I have done. This isn't me talking here, this is me simply relaying the information I've learned in my own journey." My favourite single stop reference. 

• A classic 4 min video by Dan Kittredge, founder of BioNutrient beautifully explaining the protein synthesis in plants. "We need to grow tomatoes nutritious enough to be consumed by humans, not to be sold at the supermarket by weight..."

• A University of Minnesota group of scientists ran a 6-year, 41-mix cover crop trial — and one 3-species combination outperformed every other mix by 210%. Here's the biology behind why it worked.

• Solving the 10,000-Year-Old Problem of Agriculture: A (brilliant) Interview with Wes Jackson.
  "I keep coming back to the 3.4-billion-year-old imperative. Before the fossil carbon era, we ran directly on sunlight with biological information for collection and dispersal. " 

• "Across the mist shrouded Garo and Khasi hills, elders stand as living libraries..." . The Mushroom Keepers, a (short) film produced by the Fungi Foundation that explores the deep relationships between fungi and the Khasi and Garo tribes of Meghalaya.

Community apps

As part of our community outreach initiative, we author and publish web and mobile apps for various utility functions on the field. There are no costs associated with using these apps, and we encourage people to use them freely. We aim to keep improving both feature and functionality of these apps as well as adding region and area specific information to improve our data sets in order to make these apps more useful to our community.
(Note: For any questions, suggestions or support, esp to incorporate region specific data sets please feel free to contact us.)

• Map and GPS based geofence polygon recorder: This mobile first app lets you capture a polygon boundary around any area by either marking successive points either while physically being present at the actual location or by marking the various points on a map displayed on the mobile/tablet/laptop screen. One can then save and download these geo polygons for later use in various projects. The app was built to support the tribal farmers to mark out lantana infestation around their farms adjoining the forests of Jharkhand! 

• Planting planner: While currently focussed on southern India, this app is a companion plant planning app. One can select a month and it prompts for a set of vegetables that can grow at that time in that region, and along with that gives a list of beneficial companion plants which can enhance the growth of the main crop as well as act as insect and pest repellents for the main crop. 

• Native 'weed' diagnostic and soil health indicator: Click/Upload a picture of a 'weed' (i.e. a plant growing natively) at your location, query an authoritative database like PlantNet and get a reading on the soil health and conditions at this point. Indicates the current soil pH, compaction level, Nitrogen and moisture level. It then recommends beneficial crops that mat help improve the soil condition at this place.