Field Research
WholeFam is actively working on the ground across three continents — in India, Ireland, the United Kingdom, the EU, and the United States — alongside rooted local partners and on land entrusted to us directly.
Our field research reflects the lived practice of building, feeding, sheltering, and learning alongside communities who have done this work for generations. We operate at scale in India, are developing a land center laboratory in Ireland, are exploring avenues across the United Kingdom and the EU, and have volunteer land laboratories in four US states coming online in 2027.
In India we work across three organizations — a strong partnership with the Baba Feed Project, primary US sponsorship of Smile Together India in the Bodhgaya region, and direct collaboration with five SubEk working community land research centers in northern India under the guidance of Baba Syamsundardas Maharaj Ji (Jungle Baba), who builds provisionary land centers offering food, water, clothing, shelter, warmth, hygiene and health instruction and supplies, medical access, and music medicine.
The same values drive every land project — whether operated by WholeFam as a working lab or by our network partner labs. We gather what all of us learn and share it openly. As the wisdom water rises, all boats are lifted.
Timeline
2019
Smile Together India founded
Gaya district, Bihar, India
2024–25
India field research deepens
Bodhgaya region · Baba Feed · SubEk centers
2026
Ireland land center laboratory in development
Ireland — European anchor
2026
UK & EU exploration underway
United Kingdom & EU
2027
US volunteer land labs come online
Massachusetts · Washington · North Carolina · Utah
One Network, Many Labs
Some land projects are operated by WholeFam as working laboratories. Others are operated by our network partner labs — rooted local organizations that share what they learn and participate in a resource, knowledge, labor, and tool network.
We do not hoard what we learn. We gather it, synthesize it, and share it openly — so that as the wisdom water rises, all boats are lifted.
India
Our largest field presence. Three organizations, direct collaboration with five SubEk community land research centers under Jungle Baba, and donated land where we test the whole family model at the local level for universal use.
Ireland & Europe
A WholeFam-operated land center laboratory in development — the anchor for the European WholeFam Circle, with an accountable board that reports learning back to the whole ecosystem.
United Kingdom & EU
Exploring avenues across the United Kingdom and the EU through invited contemplative, ecological, and educational communities whose practice informs the model.
United States
Stewards have volunteered their land for working WholeFam laboratories in four states, coming online in 2027.
Full case studies and invitation pages for each site are being gathered as part of the WholeFam Field Research Project.