Yash Farm Centre for Sustainable Living is located on a six acre land parcel within the village limits of Kadu Kembathalli, Thally, Tamil Nadu. While the farm land is being developed into food forest based on Natural farming and regenerative farming techniques, the Centre within this farm will strive to offer quality education, training and experiential learning to people (adults, school children and college students) interested in learning natural farming / sustainable agriculture, practicing sustainable living. The centre is also equipped to train farmers to learn regenerative agriculture to generate carbon credits. The centre is an ideal destination that promotes rural ways of “greener lifestyle”
The farm has dormitories, community kitchen cum dining, training halls, yoga & meditation spaces and other amenities are being built using natural building materials like mud, stones, hay, bamboo etc. This is an ideal destination for someone wanting to learn, experience and practice “sustainable living” in a typical village set-up equipped with certain modern amenities.
The Centre for Sustainable Living by Yash Farm can be reached via Kanakapura road from the southern, western & northern suburbs / areas of Bangalore and via Hosur – Anekal – Thally road from eastern suburbs /areas. It is 65 kms ( ~ 2hrs drive) from Koramangala, Bangalore
This centre is an ongoing collaborative project between stakeholders who are keen to promote rural / agro tourism in India and through curated workshops / events its provides the platform to connect the city dwellers with rural India. Founders of Yash Farm (Shyla and Karthik) along with C. Kumar, Director at Nesara Farmers Produce Organization’s (FPO) Thally and the farmers from Nesara FPO are coming together to train people from urban and rural areas and school going children in Thally region on sustainable living, sustainable agriculture, natural farming, environment education and implement Mission LiFE to people. We are always looking for more like minded people or organizations to partner and promote sustainable living.
While the farm is under development, the centre is open and offers the following “curated course and workshops” :
- Residential Workshops & Retreats – Sustainable & Holistic living, Yoga & Meditation, Healing, Regenerative farming, Natural Farming, Climate Change, Corporate / Agritech & climate change startup meetings / workshops.
- Master classes – Painting, Pottery, Music, Handicrafts, Story telling, Acting, Public speaking, etc
- Eco friendly & green Events – Weddings, Birthday / Anniversary parties, Photo & Video shoots, Spiritual & religious ceremonies like homa, yagna etc all events designed and executed to be compliant with circular economy.
Yash Farm’s Centre for Sustainable project has been underway since Oct’23, the phase wise completion plan is listed below :
- Phase 1 (operational) – 1) Two huts with 6 Dormitories that can house 30 people on bunker beds with common toilets 2) Kitchen & Dinning area 3) Event & meeting Space 4) Mud bath & Play area 5) Agro forestry, farming, landscaping, Goshala, chicken coop etc
- Phase 2 (by Oct’24) 1) Meditation hall 4) Library / Reading room
- Phase 3 (by Feb’25) – a fully functional farm with all amenities that is rich in bio diversity and equipped with an amazing food forest 🙂
For more information & inquiries, call or WhatsApp to +91 76 767 73 750 or Instagram “Yashfarm_stay” via DM.
Participation is by invitation only – You can fill up this form to get more details on both “Introduction and Advanced Sustainable Living workshops”
Accommodation Charges – Rs. 750/- per person for a 24 hrs stay in dormitories. Each dorm can house 6 people over 3 bunker beds and has common toilets and bath area.
Food charges – Rs.1,000/- per person for all three meals. The food is prepared from farm sourced ingredients and the cuisine is traditional Indian vegetarian. We may also occasionally serve chicken or mutton during local village festivities.
Important Notice : As Yash Farm’s Centre for Sustainable Living is place for learning and experience Sustainable living, hence smoking, consumption of alcohol and / or substance abuse are strictly prohibited and not allowed
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