ThePimenta
Farm 1962 · Kerala Midlands
Our family planted the first trees on Haritha Farms in 1962. By the early 1990s we’d torn up the rubber monoculture, sworn off chemicals, and replanted with pepper, coconut, cocoa, vanilla, turmeric and the medicinal plants that grow well in our soil. We opened the kitchen to travellers in 1992.
There are four bungalows, one long kitchen, and 6.5 acres of garden. No pool, no spa, no buffet. You come to cook, to walk, to eat — vegetarian, inspired by Kerala’s diverse regional and community traditions — and, if we’ve done our job, to leave lighter than you arrived.
If that sounds right, write to us. We answer every enquiry ourselves, usually within a day.
Vegetarian, hands-on, recipe-led. Madhu handles prep so you focus on technique. Four to eight dishes a day on most programmes.
Four private bungalows amidst pepper and cocoa. Solar hot water, air conditioning, Wi-Fi suitable for messaging, email and ordinary browsing; speeds may vary. No pool, by design.
Backwaters, temple towns, lorry-art yards, tea country. A driver who knows the back roads. As much, or as little, as you like.
Discover our curated experiences in Kerala’s midlands, combining traditional food, spice gardens, local markets, lorry art, tea plantations and visits to a bean-to-bar chocolate maker.
Hands-on cooking residencies, day workshops, and retreats focused entirely on traditional vegetarian and vegan Kerala dishes in our heritage kitchen.
Four hours in our spice garden and heritage kitchen — a demonstration, a stroll, a banana-leaf lunch.
A whole day on the farm. Garden walk, pineapple market, truck-art yard, an auto-rickshaw village ride, and four hours in the kitchen.
Hands in the kitchen on three days, balanced with a river ferry, a handloom weaver, and our bean-to-bar chocolate demo.
Our flagship residency. Four full days, the techniques behind the recipes, tea plantations and spice farms in the afternoons.
A long weekend in the midlands. The pineapple market, an ancient church, the lorry-painters, and our bungalows for two quiet nights.
A tea plantation, an ancient church, a temple, the river ferry, the pineapple market — and a cooking class on the third afternoon if you want one.
Tea trails, sacred sites, terracotta artisans, the backwaters — four nights at the long table and one optional cooking session.
Yoga, Ayurvedic cooking, partner Ayurvedic massages at nearby centres, and the long monsoon afternoons that make Kerala famous.
Discover local spice groves, community river ferries, traditional lorry art, temple towns, and the authentic, slow-paced countryside of the Kerala midlands.
