Permaculture is a sustainable design system that applies ecological principles that are found in nature to the development of human settlements, allowing humanity to live in harmony with the natural world. While permaculture can be applied to almost any area of living, including local economies, energy systems, water supplies, and housing systems, permaculture has become most well known for its applications in sustainable food production.
Permaculture strives to “work smarter, not harder,” banish waste in all its forms (such as pollution, water waste, and energy waste), and increase natural productivity and efficiency over time through the application of sustainable design systems that work with nature within its natural limitations. Permaculture is especially useful in a world where there are constrained energy and natural resources.
In permaculture, there is particular emphasis on the use of perennial crops such as fruit trees, nut trees, and shrubs that all function together in a designed system that mimics how plants in a natural ecosystem would function.
Kalika Permaculture Farm is located on Kalika Charles Hill overlooking the picturesque Pokhara Valley and the majestic Fewa Lake, Kalika Permaculture Farm is not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill farm. The ranch was begun way back by our ancestor. Since our modest beginnings, the ranch has now turned into flourishing desert garden of plant and creature life.
Kalika Permaculture Farm uses ecology as the basis for designing integrated systems of food production, housing appropriate technology and community development. The farm offers a practical, creative approach to the problems of diminishing resources and threatened life support systems now facing the world.
The farm integrates people into nature's design. A permaculture design provides us with shelter, food, water, income, community and aesthetic and spiritual fulfillment within a balanced and healthy biological community.
The farm addresses the way we live on our place in a graceful and healthy way, respecting the plants and animals around us, and leaving the biosphere in a more productive and healthy state than we found it.
Kalika Permaculture Farm is a working farm and a demonstration place for the values, methods and policies of permaculture. The farm aims to encourage ecological, social and financial resilience in the Occupied Territories by further developing our small-scale permaculture location to act as a model and teaching centre for local landowners and learners of permaculture. The Farm seeks to be a model of sustainable development and self-sufficiency for Nepal as a whole and to establish regional and international contacts with permaculture initiatives.
The main goals to which we work through our farm include constructing local green economies from the bottom up and increasing local food production, water harvesting and recycling. We look forward to developing the farm as a cell of a holistic green bottom-up green financial system, using its regenerative economy as a vehicle for transition and as a social-ecological medium to link Neplease to each other and their environment.
Kalika Permaculture Farm is located in Charles hill which is famous tourist destination for trekking form Pokhara. In December 1992, along with member of Nepal’s royal family, Prince Charles spent a week camping in this place. So the name of the hill goes by the name of Prince Charles to honor him. Since then the trek is called Royal Trek.
It is a good option if you don’t have time and energy for a longer trek. It takes in the Pokhara Valley’s with the view of Fewa Lake. The terrain is relatively easy and has some excellent views of the mountains. This trek also provides a glimpse into the life of the local villagers when you visit and eat with them.
It is located in a distance of 12k.m from Pokhara. From here we can see different mountain ranges such as Annapurna, Dhaulagiri and Manaslu. It is located in 1250m above from sea level. We can have the view of Fewa and Khaste Lake along with Madi River from here. It is best suited for sunrise and sunset.
Prince Charles and his 90 visitors and employees walked this path. This journey has been called the Royal Trek since then. It is a good option if you don't have the time or energy for a longer trek. It takes in Pokhara Valley. The terrain is comparatively simple and offers some great mountain views. This walk also gives a glimpse of the local residents lives when you visit and eat with them.