Swechha Farm Ladpuri · Khairthal-Tijara · Rajasthan

One address · one person

Contact

Ask
a person

किसी इंसान से पूछिए

You have probably passed a dozen panels on this site saying we have not sorted something out yet. This is where those get answered, by a person.

We have one address and no switchboard. Below is what we cannot answer here, so your first email has the right things in it.

Write to the farm

[email protected]

Swechha Farm — Ladpuri, Khairthal-Tijara, Rajasthan, in the Aravallis, about ninety minutes from Delhi.

No street address, and no map on this page. Nobody has traced the parcel, so a pin would be a guess.

All of it in one place

What we cannot
tell you here

जो यह साइट नहीं बता सकती

These are the things we owe you and have not supplied. Better you find out here than after waiting a week for a reply. If one of them is why you came, say so in the email.

  • Coming to stay

    • What the camping site takes. The houses are answered — the listings carry the numbers
    • What a night includes — bedding, meals, whether anything is cooked
    • The bathroom arrangement in the mud houses, and whether there is hot water there. The stone house is en-suite
    • Whether a normal car gets up the sand track, and where to leave one

    Stay

  • Bringing a group

    • The largest group we can take in a day, and how many adults we want with them
    • Timings — when a day starts and ends
    • Food, drinking water and toilets for a group of forty
    • What a visit costs a school, and whether transport can be arranged

    Schools

  • When to come

    • Eight of the twelve rows of our floral calendar
    • Which months we count as the cool months
    • The route we tell people to take, and the nearest station
    • Whether a given week works at all — which only a person can say

    When to come

  • Buying something

    • When turmeric is lifted, and whether ghee is made year-round
    • Whether honey leaves the farm at all
    • Picking, churn and packing dates for any batch
    • Where it can actually be bought today

    Produce and traceability

  • The farm itself

    • Who answers this address. Nobody is named for it yet.
    • The legal entity, and exactly how it should be written
    • Most of our own history has no date. Two are sourced from photographs; the rest are not
    • Six of our thirteen systems have never been photographed

    About · the map · the restoration

What we can answer today

Where it is
Ladpuri, Khairthal-Tijara, Rajasthan — five acres in the Aravallis, about ninety minutes from Delhi
What grows
Eleven fruit species; eight or nine flower between January and April, and Kinnow is ready in January
How it runs
Nine irrigation zones off one borewell, twenty-four vermicompost beds, turmeric under canopy, the apiary inside the citrus strip with ten colonies live across about fifty boxes
What we have pictures of
Which parts of the farm have been photographed, and which have not

Three leave · two stay

Where your
message should go

Three of these are not ours to answer, and forwarding your email would only add a week to a reply somebody else can give you today. Two stay with us.

  1. You want to stay a night

    Four listings: the two mud houses singly, the two together, and the stone house. Dates, availability and what a night costs are all on the listings, and we cannot change any of them from here.

    Not hereGanga House ↗Yamuna House ↗Both together ↗The stone house ↗

  2. You are bringing a school or a group

    School visits are arranged through Swechha, not by us. Send your group size, age range, preferred month and whether you need transport.

    Not hereswechha.in ↗

  3. You want to buy produce

    We sell nothing here. Prices, availability and ordering live on the marketplace. The traceability record for a batch stays here permanently.

    Not hereThe marketplace ↗

  4. You want to learn how something is done

    Growers, students, people doing this on somebody else's land. The answer depends on the week, so say what you want to see and roughly when you could travel.

    Here, by email[email protected]

  5. You have ground of your own

    The most useful conversation we have is with somebody holding degraded land and wondering whether it is worth it. Say roughly where your ground is and what you are trying to solve.

    Here, by email[email protected]

Nothing promised yet

What happens
after you send it

Put these in the first email and the reply will be useful

The month
Or two, if you can travel in either. It is the single thing that decides whether a week works.
How many of you
And whether any of you are children
What you want to see
Name a system — the orchard, the compost beds, the apiary, the contours — rather than asking for a tour
Whether you need a bed
Or are coming for the day from Delhi
What you are solving
If you have ground of your own. This is the part that makes the visit worth both people's time.

What we will not promise you

Contact pages invent these constantly. Nobody here has committed to any of them, so we are not printing them.

A reply timeNobody has committed to one, so we are not saying “within 24 hours” or anything like it. We should settle on a figure we can actually keep.
Who answersNobody is named as responsible for this address. An address nobody owns is worse than no address.
Office hoursWe have not said when anybody reads mail, or whether weekends are different.
A second routeIf the first email gets no reply, there is currently nothing to try next. That is the real cost of a single address.

Not decided

The telephone

फ़ोन का सवाल

In this country a stay or a school visit is usually arranged on the phone. We do not publish a number.

Everything is arranged by email instead. We know that is harder for some people, and we have not settled whether to change it.

Not built yet

If there
were a form

There is no form here yet. When there is one, the address stays printed beside it. These are the things we would ask you, so you can send them by email now instead.

Practitioner or farm owner Not built yet

Nothing here can be sent. These are the things we would ask.

Name
Required
Email
Required. It is the only way we can reply.
Months you could travel
Required. Multiple choice over twelve, not a date picker — people plan in months.
How many of you
Required, as a number
What you want to see
Required. Name one of the thirteen systems rather than asking for a tour.
Do you have ground
Optional — yes or no, and roughly where
What you are solving
Optional, free text. The most useful field on the form.
A contact number · not decidedAsking for one means deciding who sees it, where it is kept and for how long. Not a thing to add casually.
School coordinator Not built yet

A different set, because a teacher is deciding for other people. School visits go through Swechha, so if that stays true these belong on their form rather than ours.

School
Required
Your name and role
Required. A teacher, a coordinator and a head each need a different reply.
Email
Required
Children and adults
Required, as two numbers. It is the first thing we will want.
Age range
Required
Preferred month, and an alternate
Required. One date almost never survives a working farm's calendar.
Transport
Required. Whether the school brings its own.
Access, medical and dietary needs · not decidedA group will want to tell us these. They are sensitive details about children, and we have to decide who receives them and how they are held before we ask.

No photograph here

There is no
photograph
on this page

It is the only page on the site with no picture on it at all.

Nothing we have shows anyone being spoken to, anyone arriving, or anyone at a desk. A picture of fruit here would just be decoration on a page about getting an answer. So there is none, and nothing has failed to load.

The door

One address,
and somebody
at the end of it

खेत को लिखिए

Send the month, how many of you there are, and what you want to see. That is enough for a straight answer about whether that week works.

[email protected]

When to come Stay in a mud house The farm map Whoever keeps this farm