Pitchandikulam has developed over the last thirty years into a Medicinal Plant Conservation Park and Environmental Education Training Centre focusing on the restoration of the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest.

Activities at the centre include indigenous forest planting programs; indigenous plant nursery development; training in local primary health care traditions; biota and village surveys and ongoing scientific research into the ecosystems of the Coromandel Coast. 

The centre houses a photographic display of 350 of the 400 medicinal plants found in the bioregion, a collection of 250 different medicinal plant seeds, a documentation of the knowledge of local healers and a variety of objects including ropes, baskets, brass pots, parts of water lifting systems, fish traps and more, representing traditional technologies from villages in the bioregion. There is a Tamil and English reference library and a computer database for research.

It is a space where visitors learn about our work in Pitchandikulam and in the bioregion through exposure visits and workshops in the gardens, forest and resource centre.

The building runs on solar energy, and a windmill pumps water for use in the nursery and gardens.