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Nandi Grama - Sustainable and chemical free living

India
Energy, Technology, Education
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Anaadi Ecofutures
Tamil Nadu, India
Business, Nonprofit

Anaadi EcoFutures, the clean-energy arm of Anaadi Foundation, builds a carbon-negative, circular way of living centred on cow dung (Govar). Dung becomes local energy — patties and biogas — while its slurry and gomutra feed the soil as natural fertiliser, building soil carbon and biodiversity without chemicals. Our farms in Palani harvest over 5 tonnes of paddy per season this way, with zero synthetic inputs, and we turn cattle waste into Govar bricks and eco-packaging. A community of 60–70 already lives this model; we are now scaling it to Hyderabad, while Anaadi Foundation teaches it openly so any family can adopt it. Funds will support local biogas, chemical-free cultivation, restoring a water body, and community learning. We'll track clean-energy access, acres regenerated, soil carbon, yields, and water retained — a regenerative, circular system, locally powered and kept alive through education.

Project story

Anaadi EcoFutures is reviving ancient wisdom for modern sustainability. At our Palani base, 60–70 people already live this circular way—and we're scaling it to rest of India.

Our vision: carbon-negative communities powered by renewable energy and natural fertiliser, chemical-free and regenerative by design.

The magic ingredient? Cow dung. It fuels our closed-loop system: dried into cooking fuel, converted to biogas through anaerobic digestion, and transformed into nutrient-rich bio-slurry that rebuilds soil. This sequesters carbon while growing food without synthetic inputs—we've already harvested 5 tonnes of paddy using only cow-dung fertiliser.

Beyond agriculture, we build with dung-based materials and restore water through traditional watershed methods.

The problem we're solving: Decades of chemical farming have poisoned soils, drained aquifers, and trapped farmers in fossil-fuel dependence—while indigenous knowledge fades away.

Your support funds biogas systems, expands chemical-free farming, restores local water bodies, and teaches these practices to new communities. We'll measure success through clean-energy access, regenerated acres, soil health, yields, water retention, and farmers trained.

This isn't just farming—it's generational knowledge kept alive through education and action.

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Swaathi VetrivelAnaadi Ecofutures, Tamil Nadu, India

Location

India