Grow | Sanjeevani Vatika

From the soil to the Sattvic table.

Around the Goshala grows the Sanjeevani Vatika, a living edible park of vegetable beds, spice gardens and fruit trees. Here farm to table follows the Vedic way: what is grown in the garden is what is cooked and served at Anna Purna Shala.

Come as a guest and leave knowing where your food comes from. Walk the beds, put your hands in the soil, and follow a vegetable from seed to plate.

A gardener harvesting vegetables from raised organic beds among fruit trees at sunrise

Grow | Hands in the soil

Learn by doing.

The day begins with a slow farm walk through dew-wet paths, among young shoots, flowering vines and fruit trees, with birdsong all around. Then join the gardeners for whatever the season asks of the land.

Prepare & sow

Dig and ready the beds, then sow seeds and plant seedlings by hand.

Tend

Weed, mulch and water, and learn to read what each plant needs.

Harvest

Pick vegetables, greens and fruit at dawn, and carry them to that day’s kitchen.

Compost

Turn kitchen and garden waste, with manure from the Goshala, back into living soil.

Herb walk

Walk the medicinal garden with a Vaidya: Tulsi, Neem, Ashwagandha, Brahmi and more.

Grow | The crop calendar

Three seasons of the Gangetic plains.

Farming on the Ganga follows three seasons, and the kitchen follows the farm. Each visit brings a different harvest: from cultivation, to harvest, to the simple processing that keeps food through the year.

Kharif · June – OctoberSown with the monsoon rains: rice, maize, pigeon pea, okra, gourds and leafy greens.

Rabi · November – MarchThe cool, bright winter: wheat, mustard, chickpea, peas, spinach, carrots and cauliflower.

Zaid · March – JuneThe short summer season: watermelon, muskmelon, cucumber, moong and summer vegetables.

Grow | The natural way

Farming with nature, not against it.

Before chemical fertilisers and pesticides, all farming was natural. The Sanjeevani Vatika returns to that way, observing the land and working with its rhythms.