Farm Tour

Overview

This farm tour on the outskirts of the desert outpost of Jodhpur in Rajasthan offers an excellent opportunity to combine a great learning experience with a revitalising back-to-nature trip where one can savour the enchanting sights, sounds, scents and flavours of a rural desert setting. You will be in the fields of a working farm in the Thar Desert, so dress accordingly and remember to wear comfortable shoes.

Mharokhet’s community takes immense pride in its methods of chemical-free farming using modern agricultural practices in consonance with traditional planting knowledge. And what’s even more unique is that all this has been powered by using modern agricultural practices of crop management in consonance with traditional techniques of pest management.

Why you will love it

• A unique adventure in a desert setting
• Grow the entire gamut of plants: exotic, native & indigenous – many that you cannot even imagine to be growing in this part of world
• Whetting your curiosity about life on a working farm in the desert

What you will experience

Mharokhet’s farm tours are both entertaining and educational. You will learn all about the importance of sustainable farming and traditional knowledge of pest control and fertigation, the benefits, and challenges of doing chemical less agriculture, and share best practices that they use in growing native and exotic produce.  There definitely will be an opportunity to harvest some fruits/vegetables during the tour as well!

These tours are organized just after dawn and before dusk on weekends. Nature lovers, farming and food enthusiasts, or anybody who is curious about life on a working farm in the desert will love this farm tour.