Earthness Farm
Project size: 2 acres
Nelamangala, Karnataka
Dec 2024 to Aug 2025
Key design features: Syntropic system, Vegetable beds, Living fence, Ponds, Bioswales
Project team: Jananee Mohan (Project lead); Debasish Satapathy, Amol Kadam
Elevation: 910 metres above sea level
Annual rainfall: 817 mm / 32 inches
Climate: Tropical Savannah
Bioregion: Dry-deciduous grassland-forest mosaic
Soil type: Loamy soil
Masterplan
Earthness is a 2-acre farm that was designed to help the clients achieve self-sufficiency and eventually a surplus in terms of fruits, nuts and vegetables through their own regenerative food forest. The productive zones on the land included a nursery, space for drying and processing produce, syntropic row systems, food forests with fruit trees, herb gardens, a composting pit, annual and perennial vegetable beds.
The design sites residences for the clients, the staff and guests, with roads and pathways that allow for smooth access to all parts of the site. Pollinator gardens, a living fence, native flora along avenues and in a wild zone have been designed so the clients can nurture biodiversity on site. Multiple bioswales and the two ponds sited on the property not only provide unique habitats, but they also store water for irrigation when required and infiltrate water before it leaves the site, allowing the food systems to be passively irrigated.
Environmental Study and Zoning
Design details
The details of this design help inform the implementation of the various elements on site. The spacing and composition of the species used for the living fence, depths of trenches, height of bunds, shapes of the pond as well as the appropriate water inlets and outlets are conveyed through graphics.
Site photos