Our Projects
A deep seated love for the outdoors and the off-grid concept of tiny houses lead our client Manik to launch a farm stay, near Pune. The idea was to help people disconnect from the nine-to-five mentality and live more balanced lives. Something that forces them to take stock of what is important, away from tech and urban distractions. Like an antidote to modern life.
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“During covid, I realized I grew up all these years not knowing or paying attention to the most important aspect of my life, food. The interest and inclination were always shallow. How is it grown? from where is it sourced? What are native foods we are aware of? What am I missing? ”, says our client Preeti.
Her interest began when she came across the concept of permaculture. She wanted to attempt developing a small vegetable garden in the house they live.
A 350 yards plot amid Hyderabad city is not just turning green but bringing in diverse life forms. Our client Swati has been gardening and growing food for her family for a few years. She was enthused by learning natural farming methods. When Swati learned about Permaculture and Tribe, she approached us with the passion to develop her land and learn with us. Being lived in the city for years it was one of her dreams to create an Urban Food Forest model for the community. And by meeting Swati, her dream became ours too.
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Located in the outskirts of Bangalore, amid real estate layouts, is a 1-acre Bageecha farm getting ready to be a haven for all life forms. Ruman and Fahad, having spent their childhood in Bangalore grew up observing how the city has been changing quite drastically from being a beautiful garden city with wonderful weather to an urban concrete jungle getting warmer by the day. It’s inspiring to see how couples influence each other for the betterment of the self and the society at large.
One simply doesn’t claim Penukonda as the 2nd driest district of India for no reason. If one wonders about the climate of Penukonda it goes from hot to sweltering hot to warm in a year – yes there are no cool breezy winters here! So, what do you do when you have 150 acres of land in the 2nd driest state of India? Well, Tribe had taken that challenge headlong and built a permaculture farm and even named it Aranyani (Means forest).
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What would you think of hillside farmland that is next to a lake situated in the majestic Sahyadri mountain range of the western ghats – Breathtaking views? Amazing weather? Mesmerizing monsoon spells? Mountain breeze? Atharva farms was all that but something more – with a slope ranging from 5% to 90% - topsoil erosion was evident on the 2-acre farm due to the heavy winds and rainfall.
The site located in Pune is one of the challenging sites where the farm is located in a valley with a heavy catchment above it, with a difference of 10 meters in Altitude from ridge to low point on site. Our clients Suruchi and Marthu Shanbagh, approached Tribe to design a self-sustainable food forest and to be able to live a life close to nature. It’s inspiring and rewarding when the clients particularly show interest in planting native varieties and trust the whole process.
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The project was nestled on the banks of Srirangapur Reservoir, in the foothills of Wanaparthy. But the land was extensively mined for Granite and was left with very little topsoil. Due to the clearance of forest growth, and being in the catchment area with a steep slope, all the rainwater running down the mountain ranges around caused heavy soil erosion and nutrient leech. Different types of soils ranging from silt, clay red, and rocky are present on the property.
When this couple from Bangalore approached us with a vision to build a self-sustainable life on a quarter acre of land, Tribe was gladly on board to help create such a reality. But the challenge was to set up a permaculture farm with diverse elements in such a small acreage. The land was in a gated community with no permits to drill bore wells and the maximum water supply was 5000 liters per day. Moreover, the project was in the Kodikonda region at Ananthapur, the 2nd driest district in India.
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Protovillage, as some of you might already know, is a highly ambitious project initiated by Kalyan Akkipeddi, striving to build a fully functional prototype village demonstrating a resilient community life that breaks away from the paradigm of limitless economic growth and adopt a lifestyle that is more respectful of all life around us. When Protovillage wanted us to set up a permaculture farm for them in 1 acre, Tribe was gladly on board to collaborate with them.
What do you think of land close to a river? Rich? Dense vegetation? Fertile soil? Abundant water to feed the plants? Ever heard of a gully though? Well, Gully is a trench, a narrow channel which was worn by running water, eroding sharply into the soil. JC Farms was on such land, 20 acres situated in an area that used to be a gully of the Kondapally river, with silt and white sand soil and wild thorny bushes and few pioneer trees like Senna Auriculata and Acacia Nilotica.
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The love for gardening and growing food is passed on as a legacy in some families. Few are those fortunate children who grow up watching their elders tending to other forms of life and watch them grow along with them. This paves a way for an unspoken bond with nature. We care for something we love. As simple as that! This seed of inspiration from her childhood had led our client Deepa to desire a better planet for the future generation.
