Sarodhi, Udvada

Sarodhi is a village located at approx 6 km away from Udvada along the national highway 48. The entrance to the village from the highway is marked by two banyan trees on either side of the road which gives the place its name ‘bevad’. The village lies within a dense green fabric And spreads across an area of 3.58 sq km with a lake of an area of approx 15 acres.The main occupation practiced here is farming. The village mainly consisted of three types of settlements…brahmin, koli patel and tribals locally called hadpati and dubra .The tribals fish from the lake according to their need. While strolling along the lake with one of the villagers we found that the locals had a good knowledge about the medicinal properties of plants. This intrigued us towards understanding the ecology around the village. We are exploring how vegetation can be one of the ways to look at a site. Our primary motive is to look towards the site through changes in time and analyzing how things are altering.