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Natural farming philosophy is working with nature to produce healthy food and to keep the land healthy. However Natural farming differs from Organic farming by not using any organic manure even like FYM(Farm Yard Manure) and Vermi-compost etc. The essence of natural farming is minimizing the external inputs to the farm land, which degenerate the soil nature. Gurukul kurukshetra has been successfully growing the crops like rice, wheat, sugarcane, vegetables (potato, onion, carrot, brinjal, bottle gourd etc.), fruits ( guava, zizyphus (ber),singhara), orchids etc. by adopting the low budget natural farming(LBNF) system. Keeping the above in view, a survey was made on the farms of Gurukul kurukshetra to ascertain the benefits and feasibility of low budget natural farming in terms of produce, soil health and methods of farming being used by them. Semi-constructed interview was made up in order to get qualitative information. It was concluded after the study that cow dung and urine is one of basic ingredient for low budget natural farming (LBNF). Besides using natural formulations prepared from the dung and urine of Desi-cow, green manuring, in-situ incorporation of crop residues, mulching, crop rotation are some of the practices which are followed by Gurukul Kurukshetra for taking desirable results.