MAY
3rd: Press Conference at Indian Women Press Corps introducing the Bhoomi Festival
Speakers: Vandana Shiva, Maya Goburdhun, Meera Dewan
7th - 8th: Voices of Bhoomi: hearing in Jharkand
Bhoomi Annapurna begins: Panna Festival of indigenous cooling drinks
Bhoomi Sparsh begins: symbolic planting of tomatoes, brinjal and coriander at Indian Women Press Corps
Voices of Bhoomi begins programs with schools to raise public awareness
JUNE
5th: Environmental Day celebrations
Voices of Bhoomi: gathering at Niyamgiri
Bhoomi Annapurna: Mahila Anna Swaraj program where various women groups will offer their artisan processed products of Papad, Achar, Vadi
JULY
Bhoomi Sparsh in Dilli Haat
Garden of Hope: Seeds of freedom kits sale at Dilli Haat, to sensitize the general public to the need of growing own food
AUGUST
9th: Launch of Sehjan, Friends of Trees
9th-15th: Voices of Bhoomi: Freedom Week: the Bhu Swaraj Movement all over the country will plant trees that provide nutrition such as Sehjan and Mahua as an affirmation of their right to their land and the acknowledgement of Bhoomi as Annapurna
SEPTEMBER
Bhoomi Annapurna: The Pulse of Life: celebrating the diversity of our indigenous pulses, vital to sustainable agriculture and base of Indian nutrition
OCTOBER
1st: The Earth Festival, New Delhi: Film Fest, Jiya Live Concerts, Bija the Art of Seed, Roots & Shoots organic dinner
20th: Terra Madre & Slow Food Festival (Turin, Italy)
Bhoomi Annapurna: Pharsan: organically grown and traditionally processed Indian snacks
NOVEMBER
Origins: the Festival of Biodiversity and Sustainable Livelihoods
(Slow Food Movement)
DECEMBER
Bhoomi Annapurna: Garma Garam: winter festival