Purāṇa Nava
Ancient / Old to New
A permaculture farm, retreat and living expression of Sri Lankan heritage, sustainability and slow living.
Ahangama, Sri Lanka
Where the old meets the new.
Set on two acres amongst paddy fields and farmland in the interior of Ahangama, Purāṇa Nava is a permaculture farm built around an existing cinnamon farm.
It is a place to experience the richness of Sri Lankan food, culture and nature while exploring more sustainable ways of living.
The meaning
Purāṇa Nava
Ancient / Old to New
Purāṇa Nava explores how some of the most meaningful parts of earlier generations can sit comfortably alongside contemporary life — not as a museum piece, but as a rhythm you can still live by.
Taking time to notice the garden. Reading a book from beginning to end. A board game after dinner. Cooking together, learning from older generations, and letting a conversation run longer than it needs to.
Permaculture
A farm that gives back.
The land has been designed to make the most of two acres while protecting the cinnamon trees that were already here, reforesting where we can, and leaving room for other creatures to make a home.
Permaculture simply means farming with the ecosystem rather than against it: layered planting, observing different soil types and water cycles to grow what naturally suits an environment rather than forcing the environment to work for us. All this creates diversity in place of monoculture farming. The result is regenerative — tropical fruits, vegetables and cinnamon grown alongside the birds, insects and trees that keep the ecosystem balanced.
What the farm produces is what arrives, in season, on the table.
Architecture
Ancient wisdom. Contemporary comfort.
The buildings borrow from older ways of keeping a house cool — shade, cross ventilation, deep verandahs, heavy floors and openings placed to catch the breeze.
Those principles are paired with the comforts you would expect today, and with materials that feel of this place: timber, lime, clay and cement.
Farm to table
From the farm to the plate.
Cooking begins where it always did — clay pots over a dhara lipa, slow heat, smoke — and moves outward into modern Sri Lankan cooking.
Vegetables, fruit and some spices come from the farm. What we don't grow is sourced from small independent producers starting from our neighbours and spanning across the island. All supporting local enterprises to uplift communities where we can.
Explore where your food comes from.
Experience
Stay curious.
Days here are shaped around food, making, walking and talking. Choose as much or as little as you like.
Dining
Farm-to-table Sri Lankan food, traditional techniques, and modern interpretations.
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Workshops
Hands-on experiences inspired by Sri Lankan ingredients, crafts, and traditions.
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Tours
Explore cinnamon, coffee, paddy fields, local farmers, and the surrounding landscape.
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Ayurveda
Reconnect with traditional wellness knowledge through Ayurveda and medicinal plants.
DiscoverYoga
Notice the phenomenal views in our fully equipped rooftop yoga shala while you look inward with this ancient practice.
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Workshops
Made slowly, by hand.
Small, tactile sessions built around ingredients and materials from the farm and the area around it.
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Ayurveda
A slower kind of wellness.
A visiting Ayurveda specialist holds appointments at the farm. Around that, there is the garden: herbs and medicinal plants, and the traditional uses they have been put to for generations.
Walk through the garden slowly. Ask questions. Sit for a while, sipping one of our herbal teas.
Come a little closer to the old ways.
And discover what they might teach us about living well today.
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