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Monsoon-green hills at Samanvaya Earth Sanctuary
A Permaculture Farm

Samanvaya means harmony —
this is where we practice it.

A growing mix of native and fruit species, and one belief: that food, forest, and community can grow from the same soil. Come walk the land with us.

The View

The ridge, in every season

From the same ridge, across the year — the valley below always looks a little different.

Ridge view over the valley at Samanvaya Tree and distant hills from the ridge at Samanvaya Wide valley view from the sanctuary's ridge
Golden Hour at Samanvaya

This ridge makes its own case, every evening

The same sky anyone staying here gets to walk out and see.

Sunset through a tree at Samanvaya Dramatic sunset sky over Samanvaya Hazy golden sunset over the grass fields at Samanvaya
Walk the Land

Every corner of Samanvaya has a story

P1 water-harvesting pond being dug at Samanvaya
01 — The Water-Harvesting Ponds

Four ponds, dug by hand and by hand-guided machine

P1 alone holds up to 160,000 litres, catching runoff from the high ground above it. The goal isn't storage — it's infiltration, giving the land months longer to stay moist after the rains stop.

02 — The Bioswale

A channel that runs the length of the eastern boundary

On contour, planted with vetiver, and built with deliberate breaks so water slows down instead of rushing through — directing every drop toward the lower terraces instead of off the land.

Bioswale on contour with hills in the background
Food forest tree pits at sunset
03 — The Food Forest

179 pits, each one a future guild of fruit trees

Split across three zones and spaced 7.5 metres apart, every main fruit-tree pit is ringed by three or four companion pits — smaller support trees that will shade and feed the central tree as it grows.

04 — The Wild Zone

Pits filled with cow dung and biomass, then left alone

No irrigation, no maintenance schedule — just soil mounds seeded with biomass and given time. This is the part of the farm that gets to regenerate on its own terms.

Wild zone pit with soil mound at dusk
05 — What You Won't See From the Path

Soil healthy enough for a grasshopper to call home

No tilling, no bare soil, no synthetic input — so the small things move back in first. Long before any tree bears fruit, this is what regeneration actually looks like up close.

Grasshopper on a tree stump at Samanvaya
Come Be Part of It

Visit, volunteer, or stay a while

Day Visits

Walk the farm with a guide, learn how the guilds are designed, and taste what's in season.

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Volunteer

Join a planting day, help with mulching and composting, or lend a hand in the nursery.

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Farm Stay

Spend a few nights on the land in simple stay accommodation, meals included.

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Species and Counting

Explore our forest, species by species

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Mango
Mango Mangifera indica
Bael
Bael Aegle marmelos
Jackfruit
Jackfruit Artocarpus heterophyllus
Teak
Teak Tectona grandis
Silk Cotton
Silk Cotton Bombax ceiba
Tulsi
Tulsi Ocimum tenuiflorum
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Spotted On Site, By Us

A sanctuary for more than plants

This is genuinely who else lives here.

Lime butterfly on the ground at Samanvaya
Lime Butterfly Papilio demoleus
Jungle babbler on a wire at Samanvaya
Jungle Babbler Turdoides striata
Indian pond terrapin found on site
Indian Pond Terrapin Melanochelys trijuga
Unidentified chrysalis on a twig at Samanvaya
A Chrysalis, Species Unknown Identification pending
Soft-furred rat found at Samanvaya
Soft-furred Rat Millardia meltada
Grasshopper on a tree stump at Samanvaya
Grasshopper & Bee Colony Spotted near a wild honeycomb
Birds Logged On Site (Sightings, Not Yet All Photographed)
Indian Nightjar White-throated Kingfisher Blue-eyed Malkoha Green Bee-eater Indian Roller Black-shouldered Kite Red-naped Ibis Shikra Red-vented Bulbul Asian Koel Rose-ringed Parakeet Jerdon's Bushlark Jungle Prinia Common Tailorbird Common Hawk-Cuckoo Grey-bellied Cuckoo Indian White-eye Scaly-breasted Munia Asian Palm Swift Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark
A pair of what's believed to be Bonelli's Eagles was also seen soaring over the southern neighbouring site — identification still unconfirmed.
From the Farm

Farm Journal — updates & events

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Next community planting day: [NEXT EVENT DATE] — open to volunteers, no experience needed.
Aerial view of Samanvaya's land after Phase 1 earthworks
Phase 1 · Earthworks

Four ponds, two swales, and a bioswale later

Our first phase of earthworks focused entirely on water — catching it, slowing it, and giving it time to soak in rather than run off.

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Living fence perimeter pits being dug with hills in the background
Phase 2A · Living Fence

285 pits dug for the living fence perimeter

Prepped with cow dung, dry ragi straw and biomass seed ahead of planting — a thorny, self-renewing boundary is on its way around the whole property.

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Indian pond terrapin found on site
Field Notes · Wildlife

A pond terrapin turns up on the high ground

Found out in the open, far from water, we moved it to a moist spot with rock cover nearby — one small proof that the land is already drawing life back in.

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