Author: Naresh Rimal

Shiva Shiva Dham Trust’s initial ecosystem/spiritually guided and financed project’s Healthy Food Healthy Mind” slogan informs its next step–an ecospiritually informed small scale regenerative farming demonstration and support center called  Jibati Farm One (JFO).  Jibati predecessor operated informally for the past 10 years by collecting, processing, packaging, and distributing, first rock salt, and gradually adding spices, natural food supplements, cow ghee and cheese, unpasteurized honey, and local incense among the Trust’s Spiritual Center’s members. 

From its inception, during Rimal’s early 2010s’ food-security-focused field research, when Nepali farmers, devastated by the consequences of global corporate-driven “Green Revolution” “technology,” asked him “Can you help us?” what grew into Jibati has aspired to start a demonstration farm.  This evolving process has finally identified a geographically and eco-systemically favorable location where Jibati Farm One is now moving to establish itself on 1.5 Hectareof land.  This will lead to engagement with three different local-to-global activities.

Mission statement Jibati’s mission is to raise ecospiritually grounded quality products and awareness by marketing its products and advice to local and global communities. It will use, and advocate for, only agrochemical free natural, sustainable, and ecospiritually informed farming methods.  Such natural farming methods and foods leave a smaller, especially regarding carbon and other toxicity, footprint while simultaneously improving the physical and eco-spiritual well-being and understanding/practice of their members/customers and local/global communities.