Farm
Overview
Naitauba,
a 2000-acre freehold island in Northern Lau, Fiji, is blessed with
great natural beauty and tranquility. Vanuabalavu, its nearest island
neighbor, is situated more than 14 miles away. Naitauba became Adi Da's
home and Adidam's primary retreat sanctuary in 1983.
During the course of his lifetime, the World-Friend Adi Da, the
distinguished spiritual master and founder of the Reality-Way of
Adidam, established Naitauba as a sacred place of pilgrimage retreat
for members of Adidam from all over the world.
The farm on Naitauba, which grows food for those who reside and make
pilgrimage to Naitauba, is based on principles outlined in Not Two Is
Peace, one of Adi Da's many books. Through cooperative management we
aim for self-sufficiency at the local level, and through sustainable
farming methods, to grow healthy food free of toxicity.
An important aspect of Adi Da's work is to address the now common
knowledge that the Earth-system is fast deteriorating into a degraded
and unsustainable condition from which there may soon be no going back.
The human world is threatened by an ever-widening gap between the rich
and the poor, unbridled exploitation of resources, an energy crisis,
food shortages, overpopulation, and increasing areas of social
breakdown, political oppression, and armed struggle. In the face of all
this, the global human system is becoming dysfunctionalincapable of
managing itself to establish and maintain integrity. In Not-Two Is
Peace, Adi Da spoke to this situation with a passionate calling for
global change in the form of the Global Cooperative Forum, a unique
global institution founded in the inherent truth of prior unity.
To the native Fijians of Naitauba, Avatar Adi Da Samraj is known as
"Turaga Dau Loloma Vunirarama", "The Great Lord [Turaga] Who Is The
Divine Adept [Dau] Of The Divine Love [Loloma] and The Self-Radiant
Divine Source and Substance [Vu] Of [ni] The Divine 'Brightness'
[Rarama]".
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Village
Garden
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The
village garden, so called since it is closest to the village, is where
many of the vegetables are grown. The soil is predominantly clay based.
Nukasa
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Nukasa
is the area where the boats come to the island and unload their cargo.
There are 3 farming areas in Nukasa, in which bananas, papayas,
lettuce, root crops, pumpkins, and other vegetables are grown. It is
primarily sandy soil.
Delano
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Delano
is an area in the interior of the island where we grow root crops,
pumpkins, bananas, and papyas. It is also an area where we have fruit
trees.
Levuka Levu
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Levuka Levu is also an area in the interior of the island where we
primarily grow bananas. |
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