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This chapter provides an ethnography of autonomous adaptation to climate change, focusing on the experiences and responses of paddy cultivators in Thamarakulam—a village often referred to as the paddy bowl of North Kerala. It explores how changing rainfall patterns, frequent flooding, and other climatic shifts have affected local agricultural practices and livelihoods, and how cultivators have adapted to these environmental changes, often without direct policy support, relying instead on their own knowledge, strategies, and adjustments. In addition to the impacts of climate change, the chapter also discusses how broader structural transformations—such as land reforms and the Green Revolution—have contributed to significant social, economic, and political changes in the village. These overlapping forces highlight the complex interplay between environmental stress and long-term shifts in agrarian structures and rural life in Kerala.