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Our accommodation is a working farm which supports 15 local families by employing 10 men and 7 women from the Koduveli village. The women Reetha, Silvy, Sasikala, Philo, Reethamma, Celine, Lissy are the pillars of their respective families. Those who work regularly here look after families, construct their houses, and educate their children with the income they get as a result of your stay there. They are all uneducated village folk, not eligible to get a work anywhere else.
Sasikala wanted to work here to earn money to educate her son. Reetha wanted to marry off her daughter Saumya. Silvy wanted a house and get education for her daughter. Joy and Lissy, Silvy, Celine and Philo could already make small houses of their own in the village with the income from working here. The Electrician Hari, Carpenter Ravi, and Mason Baby are from this village. These are all people started working with us when we made the main building in 2006. All the furniture at our organic farmstay accommodation has been made here with the wood from our farm. A guest can come here only passing their houses. Naturally a guest finds the village full of friendly and helpful people.
We also try environmental protection and organic farming. We are not using pesticides and chemicals in the farm. Edible waste is given as the feed for fish, chicken, ducks etc. A vermin compost unit is there to recycle inedible organic waste. We produce biogas (Methane) from the waste and cow dung and get sufficient fuel for our cooking purposes. We use solar panel for water heaters and use low energy lamps for lighting. The whole light in the room will automatically get switched off when the room is locked. We make an effort to produce fruits and vegetables from the farm organically. Things like ice cream, chicken are bought from the village. We use lemongrass oil to clean the rooms. Towels are changed every day and bed sheets are changed once in three days. But if we find it soiled certainly we will change it. We never use any chemicals for water purification in the swimming pool.
Water is emptied and used for watering the plants if it is dry, and usually refill the pool from the wells where there is no scarcity for water. It is a place where you can see most of the native trees, plants and ayurvedic herbals. We don’t follow the mono crop cultivation. The plants and trees grow intermingled, the way they used to grow a hundred years ago. The presence of numerous butterflies and dragon flies is a clear evidence to the pollution free soil and atmosphere. Here you wake up listening to the chirping birds and sleep with the varied sounds of crickets, and other insects. Your stay here will not leave your foot prints except in the minds of the family.
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