The Better India · 1 day ago

How Vaksana Farms Is Turning Farming Into a Learning Experience for Children Through Farm Camps in Rural Tamil Nadu

When Kiruba Shankar's daughter said milk comes from tetra packs, the comment revealed something he couldn't ignore: an entire generation growing up without knowing where food begins. At Vaksana Farms in Tamil Nadu, he now offers children a 24-hour immersion into farming life-not as observers, but as participants who plow fields, harvest vegetables, cook their own dinner, and wake before sunrise to tend animals. "When they cook what they have harvested, everything comes together," he explains, describing how the experience completes a circle most urban children have never seen. The farm stay is small by design, limited to ten children with eleven staff members, because real learning happens when a child feeds an animal, touches soil, and begins to understand care in the most direct way possible.