They quit their US jobs for farming in Madhya Pradesh

For their love of farming, this IITian couple left their cushy jobs in the US.   : Jeevantika.

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00:00Living a life which is usually just aiming for a better future doesn't make sense to

00:13us.

00:14And the moment we start exploring something which is as basic as like, you know, our food,

00:19how does our food grow?

00:21Or where does it come from?

00:22And things like that, the first time we experienced it, we just realized that how illiterate we

00:27are with respect to that.

00:57Just to be in the lap of mother earth, somehow kind of connect with nature, which we are

01:25not able to in the middle of our cities and modern urban lifestyle, we are so highly disconnected.

01:30So that's really what kind of got us into farming.

01:37There is insecurity, which is that once you leave the job, then you will not be able to

01:41come back to it.

01:43And you're pretty young.

01:44So there is like whole life and all your career and everything ahead of you.

01:57It is an unconventional thing.

01:59But I think it's only when you actually venture out of your comfort zone, you get in the process

02:05of finding yourself more.

02:21Just to connect people back to food, connect people back to the land is one of the important

02:25parts of what this is.

02:27Our whole goal of Jivantika is really to promote natural living.

02:39This is where we source our food.

02:41This is a place we use as a kind of nature school of sorts.

02:47So this is where we kind of also help people educate themselves about food production,

02:53and regeneration and many other related things.

03:13Farming and living close to the land, living close to nature is really kind of what we

03:18are meant to do.

03:23www.jivantika.org