The Food Forest Movement
A food forest on every farm. A prosperous Bharat.
A multi-layer food forest gives a family farm fruit, spices, herbs, greens and roots across the year, from the same land. AgriBoz helps every farmer grow one, layer by layer, and connects the harvest to buyers who value it.
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The first food forests are joining now. Every number here is counted live from verified Food Forest IDs, never estimated.
Food forests across Bharat
Where the movement is growing
Pins rise here, state by state, as farmers record their forest layers on their Food Forest ID.
One pin per state, never a farm’s exact location.
Why Bharat needs food forests
One answer to many of our deepest problems
The food forest is the most complete answer India has: for the farmer’s income, for a warming climate, for exhausted soil and for the life we pushed off the land.
For the farmer
Many harvests instead of one, inputs made on the farm instead of bought, and a family that is no longer at the mercy of a single crop or a single price.
For the climate
Trees and living cover draw carbon from the air into wood and soil, shade the land and hold the rain. A farm that cools itself instead of heating the planet.
For living soil
Chemicals have thrown the microbial life of our soil out of balance. Mulch, roots and natural inputs bring the earthworms and microbes back, and with them, fertility.
For every living being
Birds, bees, butterflies and small animals return to a forest farm. We stopped making room for them. A food forest gives them a home again.
Heal the soil, and the farmer prospers. Heal the farmer, and Bharat prospers.
“A natural food forest can earn a farmer ₹6 lakh to ₹12 lakh per acre.”
Subhash Palekar
Pioneer of natural farming in India
For years, thousands of farmers have learned directly from Subhash Palekar ji in his sessions and shivirs, and their farms are the proof. AgriBoz is the platform for those farmers, and for Palekar ji's teaching to reach every village: a farm that feeds the soil, the family and the nation.
Subhash Palekar Krishi
Out of debt. Out of chemicals. Into abundance.
For decades the family farmer has been told to buy more: more seed, more fertiliser, more pesticide. Every season the bill grew, the soil grew weaker and the debt grew heavier. That road has trapped millions of farmers in poverty.
Subhash Palekar Krishi shows another road. The farm makes its own inputs from what it already has: the cow, the soil, the leaves, the rain. Costs fall, the soil comes back to life, and a food forest grows layer by layer, giving something to sell in every season.
This is the path out of poverty and chemical dependence for every farmer of Bharat. It is not a theory. Indian soil has proven it, farm after farm.
Proven on Indian soil
- Decades of Subhash Palekar’s shivirs have trained farmers across India, and their land shows the result.
- Andhra Pradesh has taken natural farming state-wide through community-managed natural farming. See the Andhra Pradesh programme
- The Government of India launched the National Mission on Natural Farming to take it to farmers across the country. See the National Mission
- AgriBoz has seen it work with its own eyes: living soil, lower costs, harvests in every season.
One desi cow. Thirty acres. No chemical fertiliser.
“With one desi cow, a farmer can manage 30 acres without any chemical fertiliser, just by making Jeevamrut.”
— Subhash Palekar
The dung and urine of a single indigenous cow are enough to make the Jeevamrut that brings the soil to life. The desi cow is not a burden on the farm; she is its fertiliser factory, its medicine cabinet and its heart.
The four pillars of Subhash Palekar natural farming
Jeevamrut
A living soil tonic made on the farm from cow dung, cow urine, jaggery, pulse flour and a handful of soil. It wakes up the life in the soil instead of feeding it chemicals.
Beejamrut
A seed treatment from the same farm ingredients, protecting seeds and seedlings from disease naturally before they go into the ground.
Acchadana (mulching)
Covering the soil with crop residue, leaves and living plants, so it holds water, stays cool and keeps feeding itself.
Whapasa
The balance of air and moisture in the soil. With less flooding and the right cover, roots breathe and the farm needs far less water.
Seven layers. One farm. Income all year.
A food forest copies a natural forest. Tall trees shade the smaller ones, shrubs and herbs fill the gaps, climbers use the trunks and roots grow below. Every layer feeds the soil and gives you something to sell.
What grows in each layer
- Tall canopyFruit every year once mature
Mango, jackfruit, jamun, coconut
- Lower treesPapaya in year one, the rest from year two or three
Guava, citrus, pomegranate, papaya
- ShrubsMoringa and banana within about a year
Moringa, curry leaf, karonda, banana
- HerbsCut again and again, all year
Tulsi, lemongrass, mint
- Ground coverWithin a season
Pumpkin, sweet potato, leafy greens
- ClimbersBeans in a season, pepper over years
Black pepper, beans, passion fruit
- RootsOne harvest a year
Turmeric, ginger, yam
Why a food forest makes a family farm stronger
Something to sell every season
Different layers ripen at different times, so money comes in through the year instead of once.
One bad season is not the end
If one crop fails or its price falls, the other layers still carry your family.
Lower costs every year
Leaves and mulch feed the soil and shade holds the water, so you buy less fertiliser and pump less water as the forest grows.
More to sell, more ways to sell it
Fruit, spices, honey and greens can be sold fresh, or turned into pickles, powders and oils that keep longer and can earn more.
Government schemes support many of these steps: fruit trees under horticulture missions, natural farming, and trees on farm boundaries. AgriBoz shows you which ones match your farm. See the schemes
Be patient, and be honest with yourself: short crops can pay in the first year, fruit trees take three to five years. AgriBoz never promises income. We help you plan, find support and reach buyers.
Buyers cannot walk through your farm. Your photos are their visit.
Buyers who care how food is grown look for farms they can trust. When your farm is complete on AgriBoz, they find you.
Show your forest
Complete your Food Forest ID: your land, every layer you grow, how you farm, and clear photos of each layer and of you on your farm.
List everything it gives
Add each product to your catalog with photos, price, quantity and when it is ready. A product with a price and a photo gets chosen; one without gets skipped.
Buyers come to you
Buyers see your verified farm and send you their interest. You talk to them directly. AgriBoz takes no commission on your sale.
Buy from a forest, not a faceless supply chain.
Every farm on AgriBoz is checked by our team before it goes public. You see how the food is grown before you ask for it.
- See the farm: its layers, its methods and photos of the land
- Many products from one grower, across the seasons
- Talk to the farmer directly and agree terms between you
- Natural farming declared openly, organic only with evidence
Plan your food forest
By Subhash Palekar’s figure for a natural food forest
₹6 lakh – ₹12 lakh
for your 1 acres, once the forest is grown
- • Short crops can pay in the first year. Fruit trees take three to five years to give full harvests.
- • Your income depends on your climate, water, the layers you grow, the care you give and the price you get.
- • As AgriBoz food forest farmers share their real earnings, they will appear here beside this estimate.
Government schemes that help pay for it
Fruit trees, natural farming, trees on boundaries and bamboo all have government support. Open a scheme to see who qualifies and how to apply.
- Agroforestry (Har Medh Par Ped)Central
- Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH)Central
- Mission Organic Value Chain Development for NE Region (MOVCDNER)Central
- National Bamboo Mission (NBM)Central
- National Horticulture Board (NHB) Capital Investment SubsidyCentral
- National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF)Central
- Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY)Central
- Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF)State
- Establishment of Orchards in Hill Areas of ManipurState
- Horticulture Mission for North East & Himalayan States (HMNEH) - UttarakhandState
AgriBoz is an intelligence layer only. We do not guarantee scheme approval or benefits. Apply directly through official government portals.
Food Forest Yatra
Walk through a real food forest
Seeing is believing. Every Yatra visits a verified food forest, guided by the family who grows it. They are paid for every visit, so one forest teaches many.
Farmer groups
See layers, Jeevamrut and a desi cow at work. Bring your questions back to your own field.
Urban families
Meet the family who grows your food. Children learn where food comes from.
Schools & colleges
A living classroom: soil, trees, insects, water and food in one walk.
Corporate teams
A team day in the shade of a forest, with a clear report of the farmers it supported.
The first Yatras are being prepared with our verified food forests. Ask for one for your group and we will plan it with you.
Best Food Forests
The farms growing the most layers
Verified farms only, each shown with its own photos.
No verified food forest yet. Yours could be the first.
Add my forest layers