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We have 14 years of experience in building an organic enterprise by remote monitoring farms over weekdays and visiting farms over the weekend. Hampi Organic Farm is born out of a software engineer’s passion for farming. The services provided are based on hands on experience and not just theory.

Everyone wants to be a farmer but very few take up or succeed, why?
  • Worries with inconsistent weather and incomes.
  • Labour issues and unavailability of skilled labour.
  • Lack of Natural/Organic farming knowledge.
  • Lack of Marketing awareness.
  • Not from farming background.
  • Issues with identifying and buying land.
  • Have gathered the knowledge but have cold start issues.
What does the training cover?
  1. Switching from Corporate life to Farming.
  2. Buying land and setting up the farm from scratch.
  3. Converting from conventional farm to organic.
  4. Permaculture and SPNF.
  5. Organic certification.
  6. Marketing the produce.
  7. Value addition.

Stage 1 : Web based training on Aug 11th Sun 2PM – 5PM

This is a online session which gives brief intro on covering all the topics of starting farming and what is takes to setup a successful organic enterprise

Stage 2 : On Farm Training – Farming Way Of Life (FWOL) – Next batch August 15th to 21st

  • Farming is a way of life. It needs to be felt by working in the farm and owning everything in the farm.
  • You will be accustomed to farm practices, animals, tools. Healthier lifestyle with good physical work, good natural organic food and good sleep.
  • Unless you are into it you will not know it -Become hands on, be it manual tilling, weeding, ploughing etc
  • For delegating a work, you have to gauge the complexity of work. Unless you are hands on you wouldn’t know how to guide your folks
  • Holistic approach to manage and maintain a fully integrated self-sustainable natural operational farm.
  • Hands on experience in micro irrigation and Learn and practice organic natural farming techniques and best practices.
  • Organic manure, Fertilizer and pest repellent preparation to manage pest and diseases.
  • Learn and practice seed collection, segregation, process, classification and indigenous storage methods.
  • Values of Self Sustainable farming and living.
  • Learn how to lead a minimalist lifestyle and choose natural alternatives for their personal needs.
  • Value addition of farm products, packaging and direct sales and marketing as farmers.
  • Learn Direct Marketing – Opportunity to grow, value add and sell the product directly to customers.
  • Learn about local medicinal herbs to heal them from injuries and ailment.
  • Periodic mentorship from the farm expert team at the farm.

Program Duration:  1 week

Participants: 1 to 5

Accommodation: We provide basic accommodation at our farmhouse or Kampli Town

Food: Home food served 3 times a day

Training Fee: 14000 INR

Who can Apply?

  • Anyone who are passionate towards natural farming and living are welcome.
  • Parents with kids who wish to expose their kids to sustainable living and teach them the key life skills.
  • Anyone who have a positive attitude, open mind to take up farm challenges and can spend more time on field work.
  • We welcome students, professionals and interested farmers who would like to career orientation towards to become a farm consultant,
  • We expect the training to have prior understanding about the fundamentals of natural farming learn through prior training, workshops or self-learning.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

  • The trainee would be managing the entire farm and its operations from the grass root level during the training period. Like managing cattle, poultry, seed bank, Farm store, farm work, packaging, marketing and supervising etc.
  • We expect the trainees to have an open and positive mindset to take up challenges at the field and work towards the solution.
  • For safety, trainee much bring the following:
    • Please carry your emergency medicine if and when required.
    • Carry your own hat, garden glove and gum boot
    • Please carry your own water bottles, blanket, bed sheets and towel.
    • To document work, please carry your laptop with internet dongle. (Only Jio works fine).

Farm training Certificate: We issue “HOF – FWOL“ certificate for the candidates who successfully complete the training program.

Program Highlights:

Apart from the regular routine farm works, trainee would be majorly working on the Community Seed Bank, Farmer Market, Nursery design and Permaculture Food Forest.
Experience a true self sustainable farming and living in harmony with Nature and Animals.
Rejuvenate your body and mind by having home grown organic food during the stay.

Farm Consultancy

  1. Starting from Ground up : We can help build a successful
  2. Specific issues : Specific concerns from seeds to selling