A Practical, Hands-on Workshop on Growing Your Own Food - with Purpose & Profit
Eat Your Garden
Date: July 5 & 6, 2025
Location: Vaksana Farms, Tamil Nadu
This is a transformational, residential event designed to help you reclaim your food, regenerate earth, and reimagine your garden as a source of joy, connection, and income.
Whether you’re a beginner or a green-thumbed enthusiast, this hands-on experience will leave you with more than skills – you’ll gain clarity, confidence, and community cohesion.
What You’ll Learn
Regenerative Practices
- Understand how healthy soil is the foundation of healthy food
- Learn composting strategies that “close the loop”, nothing is wasted
- Discover custom composting techniques that suit your space and lifestyle
- Learn about Chaos Ecosystems
Seeds
- Explore types of seeds -GMO, Hybrid, Heirloom and Open Pollinated
- Learn how to save seeds and build your own Live Seed Bank
- Discover Seed and Food Sovereignty and why it matters
- Get hands-on with Wilding with Seed Balls
Pollinators & Biodiversity
- Design a garden that invites pollinators like bees, butterflies and insects
- Understand how genetic diversity improves plant strength and yield
- Learn how plants can adapt to local conditions and build climate change resilience
Community, Storytelling & Empowerment
- Discover how gardens build community cohesion and interdependence
- Share and listen to powerful seed stories globally
- Understand gardening as not just as a skill but as a form of resilience and empowerment
Profitable Gardening
- Learn to take your passion for growing food and turn it into a sustainable business
- Discover smart marketing strategies that work for local markets, urban gardeners, and online customers
Meet Your Mentors
Maya Ganesh
Regenerative Agriculture Specialist | School Garden Pedagogies | Socio-environmental Researcher and Writer
Maya Ganesh is a leading voice in regenerative agriculture and education for sustainability (EfS), with an inspiring journey that bridges the corporate world and the socio-environmental sector. At the heart of her work lies a deep commitment to building climate-resilient ecosystems, cultivating biodiversity, and empowering individuals to reconnect with the soil — both for purpose and for profit.
With extensive experience designing regenerative landscapes across urban, peri-urban, and rural environments, Maya is known for her hands-on, divergent systems-thinking approach. Her expertise includes creating food forests using wild, forgotten, and uncultivated flora, using more hardy perennials along with annuals, and establishing live seed banks for community seed-saving efforts. Her work promotes conservation agriculture, food security and sovereignty, and circular systems through innovative waste management solutions.
From consulting on edible landscapes for restaurants, landowners and farmers, working on derelict land, to mentoring educators, bringing about a transformative change in education via school garden pedagogies, academic research on socio-environmental issues and rural-urban linkages, and journalistic writing, Maya’s work is deeply grounded in ecological wisdom, practical implementation, and community empowerment in India, UK, and Peru
Kiruba Shankar
Organic Farmer | Author of 8 Books | Founder of Award-Winning Vaksana Farms
Kiruba Shankar is a respected voice in the sustainable farming movement and the visionary behind Vaksana Farms, a 13-acre organic farm that was recently named “India’s Best Bed & Breakfast” by Outlook Traveller Magazine and an AirBnB SuperHost .
He has built a self-sustaining farm rooted in traditional wisdom, modern permaculture while continuing to be a digital entrepreneur and a professional speaker.
He is the author of 8 books, including, The Profitable Farmstay, Build Your Dream Farm and Staypreneur.
Beyond the fields, Kiruba is a celebrated keynote speaker, professor and digital strategist with over two decades of experience advising Fortune 500 companies and startups alike.
At “Eat Your Garden”, Kiruba brings his on-the-ground experience of building a thriving, profitable farm from scratch. His sessions blend practical wisdom with entrepreneurial insights — showing participants how growing their own food can be both a soulful and sustainable livelihood.
Why Vaksana Farms?
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