WHO WE ARE
Sarvodaya Institute, based in Los Angeles, was founded in 2010 by the farming Kumar Family to nourish the common well-being of people and planet.
Since then, Farmers Rishi, Manju, and Arthi have been working to restore people's faith in soil & gardens, as well as humanity's role in Earth-care.
Learn and explore with us as we recognize ourselves as soil, and our concrete cities as Nature. Come meet us at our popular nursery, watch a few of our educational & how-to videos, or take a tour of one of our three ecological demonstration gardens.
Support our work by becoming a Monthly Member.
Monthly Member's Gardening Lesson and Q&A
Join us twice a month on Tuesday evening for a LIVE gardening lesson and Q+A with Farmer Rishi and Zero Waste Farmer.
This is a Member's Only event that we do for those who support our work.
Learning something new every month and get your burning gardening questions answered! We are here for our members to help get you started caring for soil and growing food for your family at home!
2nd Wednesday of every month at 5:30pm PST
Popular Plants in our Nursery
Join us for our monthly Farm Workout!
**** FARM WORKOUTS ARE POSTPONED FOR CORONAVIRUS QUARANTINE****
Roll up your sleeves and put on your garden gloves because the soil is waiting! Once a month, Sarvodaya Institute hosts a Farm Workout Day to teach & engage the community in gardening and regenerative agricultural practices. During a Farm Workout, students will be mulching, weeding, pruning and learning about how regenerative agriculture has a direct effect on our gut health as well as the health of the planet. Help keep the plants and crops healthy while getting a natur-al workout!
Upcoming Dates: TBA
Demonstration Gardens
The Growing Home
The Growing Home is our suburban home demonstration site located in Diamond Bar, CA (suburb of Los Angeles). Formerly
a standard tract home with green grass, The Growing Home is now an ecologically-designed natural habitat that grows thousands of pounds of food for humans & wildlife, converts green waste into healthy soil, cleanses urban air pollution, harvests rainwater, and regulates its own temperature.
Sarvodaya Farms & Nursery
Sarvodaya Farms & Nursery is our urban farm demonstration site located in Pomona, CA. Sarvodaya Farms shows how blighted urban lots can be converted into productive, beautiful mini-farms that grow healthy, organic food for the local
community, while also cleansing the air, reducing run-off pollution, providing green gathering space, and serving as urban centers of connection with Nature.
The Growing Commons
Our latest demonstration site is a holistically designed orchard at the Claremont Friends Quaker Meeting. The Growing Commons was developed using ecological design principles and features to create a rich, food producing ecosystem. Highlights include rooftop and curbside water harvesting, California native plants, drought resilient fruit trees, mulching, and soil regeneration. This project is still under development, so look out for workshops hosted at this
location.