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Panchavati Karumandurai Self Sustenance Farm

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Commenced:	01/03/2012
Submitted:	25/07/2013
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Near Karumandurai village, Salem, Tamil Nadu, IN
Climate zone:	Sub tropical

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Panchavati Karumandurai Self Sustenance Farm

Project Type

Rural, Residential, Intentional Communities, Community, Demonstration, Educational

Project Summary

Panchavati Karumandurai is a self-sustaining Farm Community.

Project Description

Panchavati Karumandurai is a self-sustaining Farm Community.

This community named as Panchavati is an attempt in re-introducing a Vedic alternative, which will be an agrarian, self-sufficient and an eco-friendly community with Simple Living, High Thinking as its motto. The members will get an opportunity to pursue their livelihood in a manner spiritual, close to nature and use this stable environment as a spring board to pursue the highest perfection of human life.

The community will endeavor to show that by living a common goal centered life, based on simple living, one can become very happy, peaceful and gradually self realized. The Community is set up to bring a paradigm shift from the modern economy based on individualistic and self- centered living which leads to improper allocation of resources and exploitation. This is best adjusted if the traditional village type set up is brought in where the entire community of people live in a close knit fashion depending on each other for their various needs thereby forming a pool of families run by mutual trust and co-operation.

This Panchavati project also envisions to farm one such big village type set- up with various activities of the community will be shared by community members who work collectively to achieve self- sustenance.

Currently, per-se there is no 'permaculture' design in place. But we are in the progress of devising some useful modifications, by adapting the principles in Permaculture way.

- Swales
- Better mulching
- Adjusting the current elements and making better zones
- much more

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Landscaping - Volunteers & Experts Needed

Posted over 9 years ago (1 comments)

urgent need for volunteers/teachers landscaping/water harvesting

Posted over 9 years ago (0 comments)

Construction Project to start soon - we need volunteers

Volunteers required for our next construction project

Posted almost 11 years ago (2 comments)

Completed PDC - looking at the land with a different angle

Having completed our PDC course - we are going to plan for the land now...

Posted almost 11 years ago (0 comments)

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