A unique opportunity for kids aged 12-17 to experience this clean-green environment while living a sustainable lifestyle with nutritious food for a fortnight filled with adventure and exploration. This Low Carbon-Foot-Print camp at Varanashi Organic Farms aims to enrich lives through a hands-on learning experience of how the farm (which has been organic for over three decades) functions.
Jataka Flow Fest began on the 29th of February and went on until the 1st of March 2020. We had pioneers from various movement and sport communities come together and organise workshops for our participants over those two days. It was a campsite festival that housed around 100 participants and 50 talents & artists who share a common love for movement, art and nature. There were 14 workshops including, Breaking, Swimming, Stand up Paddle, Skateboarding, Slack-lining, Poi, Nature connect, Acro yoga to name a few. About 25 participants took part in each and every workshop over the weekend. Varanashi Organic...
Varanashi Organic Farm is locate don the west coast of India in Southern Karnataka, Its a family run oranic agricultural farm which has been passed down by generations since last 300+ years and currently covers around 100 acres with numerous irrigation ponds, as well as a river and a riverlet adjoining one of the two properties
From the 10th-20th October, we worked with 20 German volunteers on Varanashi Organic Farms. Our work was to fertilise different trees: cacao, nutmeg, arecanut and coconut trees. We fed the plants with 45 tons of manure and covered 15 acres with it. We worked in teams of 5-10. So, we split the work in different steps. That was very good and effective. Some people filled the buckets, some drove the trollies with the buckets to the plants and some put the manure around the plants. We listened to loud music, sang and danced. So, we had a lot...
During their summer project in April and May, 12 volunteers met at Varanashi Organic Farms. Our working days started with putting out the cocoa to dry and after that, different kinds of work was done. Mainly, they we cleaned the water channels in the cocoa plantations for the rainy season. Fridays were the cocoa pod opening days and later on, in May, we started to prepare the farm for a climbing event called “Psicobloc“. This is a form of solo rock climbing that relies solely upon the presence of water at the base of a climb to protect against injury...
Varanashi Organic Farms currently extends for about 100 Acres over two properties, with seven irrigation ponds, as well as a river and a riverlet adjoining one of the properties. Crop plantations are maintained within the natural vegetation of the area, and 60% of the farms is still untouched forest. Crops like Arecanut, Coconut, Cocoa, Nutmeg, Banana, Black Pepper, Jackfruit etc. are grown in a multi-story system. In addition, different types of vegetables, fruits, flowers are also grown. Rice is organically cultivated during the rainy season for sale and our own consumption. The illustrious story of Varanashi Organic Farms, handed down...
The Varanashi family has been working in the agricultural sciences for decades. The family has been involved with setting up India’s first domestic chocolate factory to turning agro-industrial waste to compost to developing beneficial cultures of micro-organisms.
Episode 1 of our organic farming course in collaboration with Varanashi Farms dwells on the subject of high performance farming. Taking a scientific approach to organic farming can yield fantastic results that far surpass methods used in chemical farms. In part 2 of the high performance organic farming segment, we explore some of the different inputs to achieve this – Compost, agro mix, macro organisms and micro organisms.
