When the Farmer Became the Teacher
Kaaya began with an admission: we didn't know much. We came to the village wanting to grow food, keep cattle and save seed, and soon found that none of it could be learned from a…
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It's about re-imagining.
A mud-built campus where rural and urban communities meet and learn from each other. Kaaya asks whether a village can be a place of learning, living and innovation, by building on tradition rather than replacing it.
Kaaya is less a place that teaches than a place that is still learning.
One coin, two faces
Kaaya Offline · the engine
Come and feel it
A meal at the café, a night in a mud cottage, a Sunday brunch, a jar from the Farmer's Market, a painting off the gallery wall. Everything there is real, and you only get it when you visit.
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Kaaya.org · the purpose
What the place is for
The work with the village, the land and the climate: the people who keep the campus running, the community kitchen, the smart-village centre, fellowships for young people. And what all of it is teaching us.
How the two sustain each other →What is earned offline sustains the work here. What the work makes and learns is why the offline side is worth a visit.
Inside Kaaya
Community and climate
Work across a twelve-village cluster: the smart-village centre at Tilwari, the Sunday Market, women's groups processing what the land grows, springs and soil.
Read about the workFellowships
Padav for young Himalayan artists, the Anutraaya incubation, internships for local youth, and volunteers who come to help and stay to learn.
Meet the fellowshipsLearning Centre
Mud buildings, a hall, an amphitheatre and the village around them. Groups and institutions come for workshops, exposure visits and partnerships.
See the spaceJournal
Stories from the campus and the village, and the open questions we are still working through.
Read the JournalFrom the Journal
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