Experience sustainable living and creative documentation in Sangameshwar, India

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  Description

  Hello there,
I am Rahul, a Farm stay owner in rural Maharashtra today and an ex advertising professional from Mumbai in the past. I studied applied Art in J.J. School of Mumbai and worked in the Advertising Industry as a Creative professional for almost 22 years. The early burnout in the career lead to look for a happier option in life. My wife Sampada who was and still is a welknown Actress, Writer, Director from the Marathi Theatre and TV industry; agreed with me. We took a life changing decision and decided to move to my ancestral village in Konkan.

In 2007, we started working on a raw stretch of 20 acres wild grassland Plaeu in Ratnagiri District and built our slow, sustainable, farm over last 20 years. We also built aour own home with the vernacular design template and local materials like the laterite and the wood, the rammed earth, cow dug smeared floors. The house was designed to host travellers.
  
  The house is situated in the midst of the farm that includes Hundreds of Alphonso Mango and Cashew trees along with a mix of thousands of native trees. The farm is surrounded by a massive grassland with an amazing bio-diversity of bushes, trees, birds, animals and creatures.

The farm is supported by a dozen of locals that help us farm, cook, maintain the house, cattle and even host travellers.
  
  The entire setup the way of operations and most importantly the slow living and the minimalist philosophy is the perfect environment for volunteers that can exchange their skills of photography, Experiences Sustainable Living, Communications, Marketing and other Creative arts for the better operations of the farm and the farm stay. The volunteers will experience an integrated rural ecosystem, with experiential travel and a real thriving farm than a workplace.
  
  We also have a couple of native dog breeds a few homestead chickens and a dozen of cows, bulls and buffaloes that contribute to the farm’s well being.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Projets artistiques

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Projets DIY créatifs

  Aide dans une ferme

  Accueil / tourisme

  Aide informatique/internet
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Dev. personnel

  

  Vidéographie

  

  Ferme

  

  Écriture

  

  Photographie

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Livres

  

  Art et design

  

  Nature
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  Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

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  Qu'est-ce que c'est ?
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  Farm of Happiness hosts travellers on the farm not just for leisure. We share the farm learnings with our travellers to help them know, experience learn about how is food grown. For most city bred travellers it’s their first ever walk into the farm to plate journey of their food. 

The stay here for most of the travellers is an awakening experience and not just a detoxing, rejuvenating calming vacation. May it be the cattle and the Milk truths, the newage veganism or beliefs in proteins from meat or eggs… be it about fruits and millets and all the nutrition concepts we covet in the modern world… the farmstead gives exposure to experience, learn about the real life on the farm and the truths about the food.
  
  Moreover, one also gets to participate and experience all the acts, tasks, tools and methods on the farm across all seasons all the year.
  
  Tere is always a lot for the nature lovers to learn from the amazing biodiversity of different seasons,,, the flora fauna, the creatures, migrating and the local birds, the animal from the surroundings and the connect with our co-existence.
  
  The food we grow, cook and eat here has simple logics that we learnt in our school books and forgot those over years in our modern lives. The rationals are simple and far more logical than all the superficial concepts that are sold to us today.
  
  Traditional Culinary Heritage:
  Eat seasonal, unhurried Maharashtrian and Konkani vegetarian meals cooked with farm grown or locally sourced ingredients. You’ll learn ancestral recipes and slow-cooking techniques powered by our farm's biogas and wood-fired clay chulhas.
  
  Our perspectives about the animals on the farm have evolved with our tow decades of co-living with them and those are far beyond just Pets-love or the Live-Stock-rationals. We are not commercial farmers struggling to meet the market deadlines and monitory objectives. We also find time to read, write, talk, listen to, watch movies, exchange thoughts and learnings and most importantly, sing, play and listen to music.
  
  We are sure that there is a lot for a traveller to experientially process a learning from everything we do at the farm and offer as experience in the stay on the farm.

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  Aide

  From travellers/volunteers we expect a barter of their skills and professional experiences against the minimalist, mindful stay experience at the farm.
  
  While managing the farm supervision, daily communication operations over phone, emails, Creation and Management of our social Media, Hosting activities, we keep loosing opportunities of important documention of experiences, learnings, meaningful content creation, etc. We sincerely and eagerly look forward and seek fresh perspectives from Creative Content Ceaters, Photographers & Digital Videographers, on all the above tasks of ours.
  We have a huge wealth of untold stories - spanning vernacular architecture, culinary systems, Traditions and Science logics, farming, crops and food, indigenous cattle breeds, biodiversity, and soil health that we really need to document in form of videos, writeup, reports… whatever it takes.
  
  We do not expect labor for our farm or the Farm Stay or travellers wanting a free stay. We need travellers that can contribute to the farm by translating our ecological journey into compelling visual and written social media content or necessary documentation.
  
  Depending on your specific skill set, your focus during your stay will center on one or two of the following areas:
  
  Short-Form Video & Reels
  Photography & Visual Archiving
  Biodiversity & Ecological Documentation
  Editorial Design & Coffee-Table Books
  Website & Digital Presence

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  Langues parlées

  Hindi: Courant
  Marathi: Courant
  Anglais: Intermédiaire

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  Hébergement

  As travellers bartering their skills instead of the amount of tariff, the traveller+Volunteers will be offered one of the available rooms designated for the travellers. Based on availability, The volunteering travellers may ask 2 or 3 volunteers to share a room. Each room has a double bed, a ceiling fan and a ward robe. Maximum 2 single beds can be added to each room if need. Each room has an attached toilet/bathroom with cold water available the whole day and hot water dor limited hours of the day. The toiletries provided include only a Shower Gel, Handwash and a Hand-Towel.
The travellers will bring their own Toiletries, bath towels. The Toilets have the western style commodes.
  
  The food provided for traveller volunteers will include two vegetarian meals and one breakfast cooked with local culinary, cooked fresh in our farm kitchen on clay chulhas and biogas using some of our farm grown/market sourced local harvests, native grains, and farm milk products.
  
  The farm is out of reach of wired internet. Please check with us on the availability of phone networks and data connectivity on your devices. We do not provide Wi-Fi or Ethernet connectivity to any travellers except in case of an emergency. The Farmstay has no TV, or avoids any loud entertainment.
  
  The traveller/volunteers will have to share all the common premise of the Farm and the Farmstay with the conventional travellers.

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  Autres infos...

  Our farm is spread over 20 acres of plateau land, surrounded by hundreds of acres of wilderness and open terrain. The farm is secluded and located away from any conventional rural/urban settlements and comfort facilities. Be prepared for genuine rural isolation.
  
  Local Travel & Personal Transport:
  Because public transit does not run directly outside our gates, any personal trips outside the farm (sightseeing, day trips, or Out of farm work) require calling a private taxi or auto-rickshaw in advance. Traveller Volunteers will have to cover their own transport costs for such reasons.
  
  Because the nearest medical pharmacy is a drive away in Sangameshwar town, you must bring an adequate supply of all personal prescribed medications. Basic first-aid, insect repellent, are available here but make sure you carry any specific personal essentials when you arrive.
  
  A natural comfort with open outdoors, raw nature, Indigenous cows, working farm dogs, Diverse birdlife is expected. Even in incidents, be ready to spot/come across seasonal insects, and reptiles. They are part of this ecosystem. Make sure you learn about them as part of living in nature or on a farm.
  
  We maintain a strict No-Alcohol, No-Smoking, and No-Loud Music policy across the property. So, bring along your headphones and use them when need.
  
  Bring your own creative devices (laptop, camera, spare storage), modest cotton clothing suited to the farm enviornment, sturdy walking chappals/shoes for uneven farm lands, a small handy flashlight, and a reusable water bottle.
  
  The nearest railway stations on the Konkan Railway route are Sangameshwar Road (25 km) and Ratnagiri (50 km), well-connected to Mumbai, Pune, and Goa. We will connect you with trusted local drivers to coordinate your pick-up directly to the farm.

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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  Mes animaux

  Tara

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