Apple Harvest Day
Pick, sort and press with the orchard team, then take home a bottle labelled with the day's date.
Sept – Oct₹4,200
900
apple trees
22
acres, organic
4
varieties grown
2019
farming since
40 km
sourcing radius
The orchard year
Five seasons, five reasons to come
March – April
The Bloom Festival
Nine hundred trees come into blossom within about ten days. The estate turns white, the air is heavy with it, and we hang lanterns down the rows for one night.
Blossom walks at first light
daily · included
Lantern night in the rows
one evening · April
Painting tables under the trees
weekends
Grafting demonstration
Tue & Fri
May – June
Thinning & Care
The quiet, technical months. Fruit is thinned by hand so the rest can grow, and guests who ask get taught to read a tree's health by its leaves.
Hand-thinning with the team
mornings · included
Reading a tree, a short course
Wed · 2 hrs
Kitchen-garden harvest
daily
Beekeeping visit
Sat · 90 min
July – August
Green Monsoon
Cloud moves through the rows at eye level. The fruit swells, the forest floor fills with mushrooms, and the cider cellar becomes the best room on the estate.
Mushroom foraging with the forager
Mon & Thu
Cider tasting in the cellar
daily · 5 pm
Rain-day preserving kitchen
on request
Orchard in cloud, photography
early mornings
September – October
The Harvest
Six weeks of picking, sorting and pressing. Every guest who wants to works a morning in the rows and leaves with a bottle dated the day they made it.
Pick, sort and press
daily · half day
Your own dated bottle
included
Harvest lunch in the rows
Sun · long table
Children's picking baskets
daily · ages 4+
November – February
Dormancy & Cider
Pruning by hand in the cold, the cellar at its best, and adopted-tree certificates issued by the fire while snow closes the upper road.
Pruning, taught by Devi Ram
Tue & Sat
Cellar tasting flight
daily · 6 pm
Certificates by the fire
evenings
Snow walk to the high rows
when open
Tree adoption
Adopt a tree. It sends you post.
Blossom in April, its harvest in September, a bottle of its cider each winter — wherever in the world you are. Choose a variety and a plan.
On the farm
Things to do among the trees
Most are included. All of them are arranged the same morning if the weather turns.
Bloom Festival
Ten days of blossom, lantern night in the rows and painting tables under the trees.
Mar – AprIncluded
Educational Farm Tour
Ninety minutes on grafting, soil, pollination and why hail nets changed everything here.
All year · Tue, Fri₹1,800
Children's Orchard Club
Small baskets, a junior badge and a tree they get to visit every year they return.
All year · ages 4+Included
Fruit & Cider Tasting
Four varieties beside four ciders in the cellar, with the kitchen sending up cheese.
Daily · 6 pm₹2,200
Orchard Photography
First light in the rows with a working landscape photographer. Phones entirely welcome.
All year₹3,200
How we farm
Organic since 2019, certified since 2022.
No synthetic pesticide
Pheromone traps and predator insects instead. Certified organic by the state board since 2022.
Hail netting on all rows
The single change that made organic farming viable here — it saved the 2023 crop entirely.
Compost from the kitchen
Everything the restaurant doesn't serve returns to the rows within three weeks.
Drip irrigation, rainwater fed
Every drop that falls on the estate is stored and used. No borewell on the property.
Nine village families
The orchard team lives within four kilometres and has worked these rows for two generations.
