Location

Surya Nagar Farm, Fairfield, IA, currently hosts our permaculture courses and Big Green Summer program. A substantial grant from the Iowa Great Places project has enabled us to buy property located next to Abundance Ecovillage and begin construction on a permanent campus for our programs.

We are just a bike ride away from all that Fairfield is becoming famous for, including the Abundance Ecovillage (founded by Big Green Summer director Lonnie Gamble), cafes, bookstores, art galleries, 10 vegetarian restaurants, the best whole foods store in rural America, and a University. In 2006, Mother Earth News Magazine selected Fairfield as "One of the 10 Best Places to Live That You Have Never Heard Of" Mother Earth News Article. In 2006, Fairfield earned the Great Places designation by the state of Iowa. Fairfield has the highest concentration of solar and wind powered homes in Iowa and possibly in the entire midwest Student wiki with case studies of energy projects in Fairfield.

Fairfield, IA:

• One of the 12 Great Places You've Never Heard Of, according to Mother Earth News
• Recognized as one of Iowa's Great Places, 2006
• Home of Maharishi University of Management and headquarters of Transcendental Meditation in the U.S.

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