Housing society
50 homes = 1 acre
Your society gets its own farm.
When 50 member homes book together, one farmer's acre is planned for your society alone. The crate arrives at your society drop point on a fixed morning.
Enrol my society
BhoomiAahar · How your food is grown
Your family's own share of a real farm.
माझ्यासाठी पिकवलेलं, ओळखीच्या शेतकऱ्याकडूनGrown for me, by a farmer I know
Fifty families book first. Then one farmer sows one acre to their exact weekly order, on the Shri Mantra Protocol, and harvests the day before each basket. Your share of that acre is about the size of a 1-guntha kitchen garden, looked after full-time by someone who farms for a living.
1 acre · 50 familiesone farm sown for one society
≈ 870 sq ftyour family's share of the field
Every basketShri AnnaSeva Aabhar: pooja flowers from your farmer
Demand first
Nothing is sown until a family asks for it.
Most vegetables in a city market were sown on a guess. When the guess is wrong, prices crash and food is dumped. BhoomiAahar works the other way round: your booking is the farmer's sowing order.
- Step 1
You book and block
Through your society, your vegetable shop or your chemist. UPI Reserve Pay holds one quarter's amount in your own account, about ₹5,200, renewed each quarter.
- Step 2
We turn orders into a sowing plan
Fifty family baskets become one acre's plan: which crop, how many beds, sown on which day.
- Step 3
Your farmer sows for you
On the Shri Mantra Protocol, guided by the nearest BhoomiSeva Parivartan Kendra, with every input recorded.
- Step 4
Harvest to order, pay per basket
Picked the day before delivery. You are debited only for what reached you.
Three ways to book
Book where you already trust someone.
Every channel works the same way: the order is booked and the money is blocked before a single seed goes in the ground.
Your vegetable shop
Weekly order, booked ahead
Your bhajiwala sells what was grown for him.
Registered shops book their weekly volume for the season and block it a quarter at a time. Farmers sow for the shop, and the shop sells tested, traceable produce with no unsold pile at the end of the day.
Register a shopYour chemist
Book at the counter
The chemist who knows your family books your basket.
Ask at any BhoomiSeva Urban Chemist. They book your family's share, help you set up the UPI block, and stay your contact for the season.
Find how chemists helpThe farm, from above
One acre, laid out for fifty families.
Every corner has a job. Gourds climb the fence, flowers guard the vegetables, greens are sown every ten days so there is always a fresh lot, and the collection shed sits at the gate.
1 acre ≈ 209 ft × 209 ft · beds 3 ft wide with drip linesIllustrative layout; each farm is planned to its soil test
- A · Leafy greensMethi, palak, coriander, shepu, chavli, spring onion. Sown every 10 days.≈ 7,200 sq ft
- B · Fruiting vegetablesTomato, brinjal, chilli, capsicum, bhindi. Staggered lots from the nursery.≈ 13,700 sq ft
- C · Gourds on the fence and pandalDudhi, karela, dodka, ghosale, cucumber. Uses height, not land.≈ 4,000 sq ft
- D · Beans and podsGavar, chavli, French bean, valor; peas in winter. They feed the soil with nitrogen.≈ 4,600 sq ft
- E · Roots and cole cropsCarrot, radish, beet, cabbage, cauliflower in the cool months.≈ 4,250 sq ft
- F · Pooja flowersMarigold, shevanti, aster; mogra, jaswand and tulsi on the boundary.≈ 2,450 sq ft
- G · Nursery and compostSeedlings, compost pit and the Shri Mantra input store.≈ 1,800 sq ft
- H · Shed, water and pathsCollection and grading shed, water tank, main paths.≈ 5,560 sq ft
Yellow dotted lines in the drawing are marigold guard rows.
All year, not one season
Something is always ready on your farm.
Crops are sown in small lots, one after another, so harvests overlap. Bars show when each crop group is usually in your basket on an irrigated Maharashtra farm.
Crop group
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Leafy greens
Tomato
Brinjal
Chilli & capsicum
Bhindi
Gourds & cucumber
Beans, gavar, chavli
Peas
Roots & cole crops
Marigold
Shevanti & aster
Mogra
About 4 kg of your family's 6 kg of weekly vegetables comes from your own farmer's acre. Bulk vegetables such as pumpkin, cabbage and gourds, and onion, potato, garlic and fruit, come from partner farmers in the same cluster, also booked against your plan. The exact menu follows your farm's soil test and the season.
Shri AnnaSeva Aabhar
Your farmer says thank you, with flowers for your pooja.
For every kilo you buy, 5% of the price goes straight to your farmer as his Harit Bonus. In return he sends fresh pooja flowers from his own farm in every basket. It is his gift, grown and given at his cost. BhoomiAahar only carries it in your crate.
- Zendu (marigold)All year, in three staggered plantings
- ShevantiOctober to February
- AsterWinter months
- MograSummer, from the boundary bushes
- TulsiLeaves all year, from the farm edge
- JaswandBoundary shrubs, most of the year
The flowers help the farm too. Marigold rows draw pests away from tomato and brinjal and help keep soil nematodes down, and flowers bring the bees that pollinate the gourds. That is why there are fewer sprays on your vegetables.
On every kilo from his acre your farmer earns one fixed Acre Rate, the same for tomato and coriander, plus his Harit Bonus: 5% of what you pay. His thank-you note reaches you on WhatsApp each week. No printed card, because we are a green initiative.
Why BhoomiSeva farms this way
One acre, planned for fifty families, is good for everyone in the loop.
For your family
- Harvested the day before, not stored for a week
- Every lot residue-tested and traceable to its bed
- A basket sized to how your family eats
- You know the farmer by name
For the farmer
- Sows knowing exactly who will buy
- One fixed rate for every vegetable, plus 5% of what you pay
- No distress sale at the mandi
- Proud work: feeding fifty families
For the soil and nature
- Twenty-plus crops in rotation instead of one
- Flowers and companion crops in place of extra sprays
- Drip and mulch save water
- Crop waste returns to the soil as compost
For the city
- Grown close to where it is eaten
- No over-supply, so far less food is thrown away
- One crate per home, returned and reused
- Fair price without middle layers
“My family's vegetables are grown for us by BhoomiSeva. I know the farm and I know the farmer.”“आमची भाजी आमच्यासाठीच पिकते. शेत कुठे आहे आणि कोण पिकवतो, ते मला माहीत आहे.”
What a BhoomiAahar family can say, every week
- Grown for
- Your family, share 23 of 50
- Farmer
- Name, village and photo
- Bed
- Block B · tomato lot 4
- Sown
- Date, against your booking
- Harvested
- Yesterday, 7:40 am
- Tested
- Residue report for the lot
Example of the tag on your crate. Scan its QR on Meet your farmer to see your own lot.
Housing societies
Get your society its own acre.
Start with 10 homes for a free drop point. At 50 homes, a farmer's acre is planned for your society alone.
- Free delivery for every home in the drop
- A fixed morning slot for your building
- Your society's farm and farmer, named on every crate
Questions
About your share of the farm.
Do I own a piece of land?
No. The farmer owns and farms the land. Your booking reserves your family's share of what that acre produces through the season.
Why fifty families per acre?
An irrigated acre farmed this way reliably delivers about 10.4 tonnes of graded vegetables a year, about 200 kg a week. That is 4 kg a week for each of fifty families. The rest of your 6 kg basket comes from partner farmers in the same cluster, so no acre is booked beyond what its soil can carry.
What if a crop fails?
Your basket is filled from the other farms in the same cluster, all on the same protocol. You are charged only for what you receive.
Why does my farmer send flowers?
Because 5% of what you pay for every kilo reaches him directly as his Harit Bonus. The flowers are his thank-you, grown and given at his own cost. His note comes on WhatsApp, not on paper.
Is this organic?
The farm follows the Shri Mantra Protocol and is in a 3-year transition. Every lot is residue-tested. We do not call it organic until certification allows it.
Can I visit my farm?
Yes. Each cluster holds family farm days in the season. Your society or chemist will share the dates on WhatsApp.
Next steps
Your share, your farmer.
Book my family's shareBuild your basket in about five minutesFresh vegetable & fruit basketSizes, prices and the harvest clockMeet your farmerTrace every lot back to its fieldShri AnnaSeva FarmHow the farmer grows for 50 familiesPilot: One Rate Farm₹34 a kg, every vegetable, every weekBook through your chemistTrusted food for the families you serveRegister a vegetable shopSell what was grown for you