Ahimsa Living: Building India’s First Vegan Food Forest Community Near Pune

A New Way to Live, Grow, and Heal

What if your home could also be a forest?
What if your food grew around you, naturally, abundantly, without harm?
What if a community could come together not just to live, but to heal, protect, and inspire?

At Ahimsa Land Foundation, we are taking the first step toward creating a vegan food forest community near Pune, a space where people can co-create a lifestyle rooted in compassion (Ahimsa), sustainability, and self-sufficiency.

This is not just a land investment.
This is a living, breathing ecosystem of change.

What Are We Building?

We are bringing together like-minded individuals to:

• Collectively purchase agricultural land (each member owns their individual plot)
• Create a lush fruit forest and agroforestry ecosystem
• Practice vegan farming without any animal exploitation or inputs like cow dung or urine
• Build a self-sustaining, conscious community

Buying land as a group gives us greater bargaining power, allowing us to secure better prices and build something far more impactful together than we could alone.

A Forest That Feeds and Heals

Our vision centers around a food forest, primarily consisting of:

• Fruit trees 🍎🥭🍊
• Native and indigenous species 🌿
• Agroforestry-based planting systems 🌳

We will follow natural and sustainable techniques such as:

• Mulching
• Multi-cropping
• Multi-layer farming
• Water conservation systems
• Drip irrigation

This is farming that works with nature, and not against it.

Your Land, Your Space, Your Contribution

Each member will:

• Own their individual agricultural plot
• Decide which trees they wish to plant (in coordination with the community)
• Have the option to build a home

Homes can be designed to include:

• 1–2 independent guest rooms (ideal for retreats or visitors)
• Opportunity to host guests or even list on platforms like Airbnb (at your discretion)

For those who cannot live on-site full-time:

• You can allow the community to use your space for volunteers or caretakers
• Your land and plantation will still thrive as part of the collective ecosystem

Healing Retreats & Lifestyle Transformation

This community is not just about growing food. It’s about transforming lives.

We aim to host:

• Workshops on reversing lifestyle diseases
• Workshops on ethical vegan farming
• Residential retreats focused on plant-based living and also for disease reversal
• Immersive experiences that reconnect people with nature

Guests will stay within the community, creating a deeply personal and healing environment.

An Animal Sanctuary of Compassion

At the heart of this project will be an animal sanctuary… a safe haven for:

• Cows and buffaloes
• Bulls, horses and donkeys
• Chickens, goats, and pigs

This sanctuary will allow visitors to:

• Build emotional connections with animals
• Understand them as individuals instead of looking at them as commodities
• Naturally transition toward an ahimsak (non-violent) lifestyle

Shared Spaces for a Joyful Life

As the community grows, we plan to co-create:

• A natural swimming pool/s
• A mud therapy pool/s
• Common gathering spaces

These will be thoughtfully distributed across members’ plots through mutual agreement.

If something isn’t immediately feasible, we simply wait… because this project values alignment over urgency.

Location & Investment Details

We currently have an opportunity around a two and a half hour drive from Pune or Mumbai:

• 💰 Approx. ₹1 lakh per guntha (1 guntha = 1,089 sq. ft.)
• 🌾 Around ₹40 lakhs per acre (40 gunthas = 1 acre or  43,560 sq. ft.) 
• 📏 Minimum plot size: 11 gunthas (~12,000 sq. ft.)
• ⚡ Infrastructure includes:
  • Water
  • Electricity
  • Internal roads
  • Gated security

Buying together helps us negotiate better pricing and build stronger infrastructure collectively.

A Model for the Future

This is our first project of its kind.

It will require:

• Patience
• Collaboration
• Shared vision

But what we build here can become a replicable model for:

• Other parts of India 🇮🇳
• Communities across the world 🌎

Who Is This For?

This initiative is for people who:

• Believe in Ahimsa and vegan living
• Want to invest in land with purpose
• Are willing to participate in a community
• Are open to learning, growing, and co-creating

We are especially looking for those who want to live on the land, not just own it.

Join the Movement

If this vision resonates with you, we invite you to connect:

📱 Call / WhatsApp: 8999495889

🌿 Final Thought

We often wait for the world to change.
But sometimes, we can plant that change ourselves.

A forest begins with a single tree.
A movement begins with a few committed hearts.

This is that beginning. 🌱