Organization: Naturellement Garden Cafe Location: Auroville, South India Time: 13h45 Date: 8 January 2016 A PDF Document was request by 2 men who came in asking to purchase Peanut Butter from to sell to local expats. They did not have a British, Australian or South African accent which I was accustomed to hearing around Auroville.… Read More Outsiders
Organization: Naturellement Garden Cafe Location: Auroville, South India Time:15h05 Date: 7 January 2016 One of the waiters was taking an order from a group of tourist who had found the Café by chance. A man from the group began to ramble off a list of items he wanted to order for everyone. The waiter did… Read More The Head Bobble
Organization: Naturellement Garden Cafe Location: Auroville, South India Time:11h47 Date: 6 January 2016 A grey haired and slightly balding Indian man walked up to one of the workers wearing a Sari. He was not a stranger because I had seen him in the office chatting a away at the two women who worked there several… Read More Religion in the work place
Organization: Naturellement Garden Cafe Location: Auroville, South India Time: 14h45 Date: 5 January 2016 Early in the morning the women changed from their beautiful Saris, hung them on the clothes lines adjacent to the left side of the café and covered them with a tarp to be hidden and protected from sight. The women tied… Read More Traditional Status
Ethnographic Journal Entries Hierachy/Division of Labor Organization: Naturellement Garden Cafe Location: Auroville, South India Time: ~0930 Date: 4 January 2016 I rode my bike to my internship today. It was hot as usual and the sun shined intensely as it burned through my pink rain jacket. No occurred, but I like to be prepared. Cows… Read More Auroville India
Sustainable Development: Empowering Women through Social Enterprise “You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its Women.” Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader of India’s Independence movement, and India’s first Prime Minister. [1] Women in India and around the world are moving from the fields to the work place in order to… Read More Auroville India Sustainable Development
Post-Trip Reflection My time spent in the Jura Mountains was anything short of spectacular. Before this trip, my expectations were solely formed based upon the information that I had been presented through class readings. Being apart of a community that celebrated the creation of cheese from the early stages of production to marketing was something… Read More Jura Journal Part 13
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 Visit with wine-maker Jean Michelle, Papillion appellation arbois This vineyard is located in the appellation arbois. It is also an historical landmark from World War II. The village was in the occupied zone by the germains and the vineyard was in the free zone. The Jura vineyard is very small and… Read More Jura Journal Part 12
Monday, April 11, 2016 Maison du Comte The Maison du Comte was established in 2003, it is the director and guide as well as the first step to understanding the world of Comte. It s a tiny exhibit that that lays out a brief history of Comte, first by showing an animated video of cheese… Read More Jura Journal Part 11
Monday, April 11, 2016 Monts et Terroir cheese aging cellar, Sylvain Esselin tour guide of cheese cells After talking with Eric about the marketing side of Comte, Sylvain Esselin took us on a tour through the cheese cells. The smell was acidic and very much like ammonium. We walk rows of new cheese and older… Read More Jura Journal Part 10