What Is TodoForest?
TodoForest is the institution behind Ṛtavan — the first Living Forest Campus in South Goa. It exists to build places where ecology, food, learning, and community grow together on the same land, instead of being kept apart.
It is not a company in the usual sense, and not a single project. It is closer to an ongoing commitment: take responsibility for a piece of land, restore it, and build a life around it that includes a school, a kitchen, a forest, and the people who choose to be part of all three.
Ṛtavan is the first place where this is happening. It will not be the last.
Why It Exists
Most of the places we live, learn, eat, and gather have been pulled apart from each other. School is one building, somewhere across town. Food arrives from places no one in the room has seen. Community is something scheduled, fit between other things that have nothing to do with it.
None of this happened on purpose. It built up slowly, through a long series of small, reasonable decisions, until separation simply became normal — the water everyone swims in without noticing.
TodoForest began with a simpler question underneath all of that: what would it take to put these things back together, deliberately, on real land?
Why Ṛtavan?
An idea like this cannot stay an idea. It has to be tried somewhere — on a specific piece of ground, with real trees, real people, and real consequences if it fails.
South Goa offered exactly that. Five acres that were already alive when the work began — coconut palms, mango and cashew trees, a river running along the edge of the property. An existing yoga school, Dakshinamurti, with years of teaching already behind it, looking for a permanent home. The conditions for testing this honestly were already there, waiting.
Ṛtavan is not a showcase for what TodoForest believes. It is where TodoForest is finding out whether it is right.
Stewardship
TodoForest is built to outlast the people who started it. In practice, that means a few specific things. Land is never developed in ways that compromise its long-term health, no matter the short-term advantage. The school's teaching stays independent of commercial pressure — what is taught is not adjusted to what sells. And the people who actually live and work on a TodoForest campus, not just visit it, have a real say in how the place grows.
None of this is complicated. It is simply what it means to build something intended to last for generations rather than seasons — and to mean it from the beginning, not retrofit it later.
Looking Ahead
Ṛtavan will not be the only place TodoForest is responsible for. But what comes next is not a plan waiting to be executed on a timeline. It is a question waiting to be asked again, somewhere else, once this first answer has been earned honestly.
If the work at Ṛtavan holds — if the forest matures, the school deepens, and the community develops a real history — then the same approach may find another piece of ground worth testing itself on. Not a copy of this one. A new place, asking the same underlying question in its own way, shaped by whatever is already growing there.
For now, all of TodoForest's attention is here, in South Goa, where the asking has already begun.