Vanirah Farm

30/11/2023

What should we do without you.. 🥰 our dear horse Badal in action 💪 Working hard with men and woman from the villages around to gather more than a 1000 bundles of hay from the mountain slopes for our cows and horse for the winter months ❄️.

28/11/2023

A couple of weeks ago we welcomed Bhola into the world ❤️ A beautiful addition to the farm! He is doing good and drinks lots of milk from his mom. We convert the remaining milk into delicious ghee 🤤.

20/08/2023

Finally an update again! A real and raw video with a little (incomplete) tour around the farm. Click on the link in the bio ➡️ for the full YouTube video (or copy this in your search bar https://youtu.be/njzW_LTcPkw).

A big dream of us got fulfilled and we have cows now at the farm! ❤ They are lovely creatures and its a great joy taking care of them (also difficult at times, dont get me wrong). We plan on selling the ghee we make from the milk of the cows at the organic market. In this video I also show you the process of the making of the lavender scent pouches, which we plan to sell as well. In the garden, I show you the apples, chickens, polyhouse with vegetables, the cow shed and the construction of new storage areas and fencing around the shed. And you will see of course a lot of the cows this video! I had a lot more footage, but I was afraid you might get bored of watching cows eating for more than a few minutes haha. I was quite done with the rainy, cloudy and foggy weather though at the time of recording this video as it had been like that for many days/weeks in a row. Luckily by the time of posting this video, the weather has cleared up and the sun came back!

16/08/2023

Good memories to the summer holidays, when the kids of the family that is working here with us were all at the farm 🥰 While surrounded by the fragrance of the drying lavender, we did daily summer school activities together and had a lot of fun!

13/08/2023

About 1.5 months ago we welcomed four new members to our farm 😍 A Sindhi and Sahwal cow with their calves. It gives us such happiness to take care of these animals. It took some time for them to adjust to their new surroundings, but we are getting into a good routine with them and they are doing great! Adding cows to our farm has been a dream we had put on hold for so long, as we wanted to have the feeling that we can rely on people to take care of the cows in case both of us have to go to the city. But after taking care of two "practice"-cows we felt confident taking this step and we couldn't be happier! Cows bring a healthy routine to our days, give us delicious milk, yoghurt, butter and ghee and a lot of love in the form of cuddles and scratches ❤️.

16/01/2023

Our wedding video is online! Finally! Just 9 months too late.. haha. This video is made as a memory for ourselves, but definitely also for you to enjoy! We did not hire a camera man during our wedding, so it was quite a task to create a nicely flowing video out of the footage shot on different phones and cameras in different qualities. But I hope you enjoy watching it nevertheless! 😘 https://youtu.be/gXAlobwHIAE

We are back at the farm now, after a long and needed break. We visited family and friends in the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium and Germany and feel super refreshed! We start this year with excitement and energy and have beautiful plans waiting to be executed (more on that later).

We also want to remind you that today is the last possibility to contribute to the building of the Community Growth Centre at the farm! 🏡 Here the link to the Crowdfunding Campaign: https://igg.me/at/vanirahfarm.

Note: in the crowdfunding page it is possible to select ANY amount and it is also important to know that you can manually set the tip to the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to zero.

Our wedding video is online! Finally! Just 9 months too late.. haha. This video is made as a memory for ourselves, but definitely also for you to enjoy! And ...

12/12/2022

Good memories at the farm 🧡

09/12/2022

Wow, going through old photos and videos and realizing how much the farm has changed in the last years!!🧡Proud🧡

Do not forget to take a look at our Crowdfunding page: https://igg.me/at/vanirahfarm.

07/12/2022

To be able to share our farm with as many people as possible, we launched a crowdfunding campaign! Your donations will fund our upcoming project at Vanirah Farm 👩🏻‍🌾. A place where we can host YOU and local farmers and host workshops about organic/permaculture farming, natural building and more! Check out the short video we made especially for this project 🤗 we had a lot of fun making this video together with our friends Shah and Camille 🥰 https://youtu.be/05wjqCDKX24.

Do you want to donate? Click here: https://igg.me/at/vanirahfarm. You can donate ANY amount you want! (Click on "see options" to select your amount). Every little bit helps us a lot!

Don't forget to share this campaign with your friends and family 🧡.

19/11/2022

Hi everyone! We launched a crowdfunding campaign to help funding our new upcoming project at Vanirah Farm 👩🏻‍🌾: a Community Growth Centre. A place where we can host YOU and local farmers and host workshops about organic/permaculture farming, natural building and more! Check out the short video we made especially for this project in the link 🤗 we had a lot of fun making this video together with our friends Shah en Camille 🥰

Do you want to be part of Vanirah Farm? And maybe even have a tree planted in your name? 🌲 Or any of the other perks we offer? Then support us NOW! And don't forget to share this campaign with your friends and family 🧡.

https://igg.me/at/vanirahfarm

Support the construction of the Community Growth Center at Vanirah Farm | Check out 'Community Growth Center in the Himalayas' on Indiegogo.

13/10/2022

Peaceful moments at the farm 🧡. In between the hectic long days of work at the farm we have to remember to stop. To look around. Life is beautiful!

11/10/2022

Great energy at the farm with Shah () and Camille.

And an unexpected kiss 😆.

🐶🧡

07/08/2022

This season's organic apples are for sale! 🍎 Check out this super cute promotion video from two years ago😍 time flies!

https://youtu.be/DMxXaUM2w8A

Are you living in or around Dehradun and interested in our apples? This year you can find us at the Sunday organic market at Survey Chowk only coming Sunday (14/08/2022). However, you can place orders for boxes of 5 kg apples throughout the week! Be quick, because limited availability!

Apples available:
- Red chief - Rs. 160/kg
- Royal delicious - Rs. 160/kg
- Red delicious - Rs. 100/kg
- Sweet/sour - Rs. 80/kg

These boxes contain medium sized apples. For smaller apples or apples with small imperfections (for making jams and chutneys for example) contact us directly to place an order.

Phone no. of Pawan: 7895674940

Hope to hear from you ❤️

Curious to see how the apples are grown at Vanirah Farm? Check out this video!Director, Cinematographer, Editor: Apoorv SharmaMusic from: https://pixabay.com...

01/07/2022

We're back with an update video on YouTube! 🥰 This video is a bit different than the previous videos, with a lot more talking 😅. A lot has happened in the mean time and there is a lot we wanted to update you about.

https://youtu.be/PSRJSr1xOFU

Hello everyone! It has been a while since we uploaded our last video and lots of things have happened! This video is a bit different from the other videos, m...

31/03/2022

A new video online! 🧡 In this new video, we are showing you a few of the projects we have been working on at the farm the last weeks. We are finishing the build of our earthbag / superadobe dome house, rainwater harvesting tank and cow shed and try to do as much as possible with earth and local building materials like stone, sand and wood. In this way, we ensure a very low carbon footprint with our building work. Super sustainable! 🌿

If you like the video, do not forget to like it and subscribe to our channel! 😘

https://youtu.be/o7QROjgjY1s

Hello everyone! Hope you are doing well. In this new video, we are showing you a few of the projects we have been working on at the farm the last weeks. We a...

27/03/2022

Waking up early for a nice long morning
yoga session with my buddy 🐾. Seeing the sun rise
from behind the mountains.. a perfect peaceful, slow
and quiet start of the day 🧘‍♀️💛.

A new YouTube video is coming soon!

26/03/2022

Finally making our kitchen counter.. WITH sink and soon running water 😍. Can you believe it? Our own harvested running water from the tap?!

21/03/2022

There is so much happening the forest, so much life 🐦. But at the same time there is no better place to find peace and quiet 🙏.

20/03/2022

A new video is online! Check it out and spend a day with Marloes at the farm. She is alone at home and foraging rhododendron flowers and spending some quiet and peaceful time in te forest and and at home 🧡. And Kukku is coming back to the farm!!

https://youtu.be/IjfJWs9N7H8

Spend the day with me! In todays video I wanted to show you what a typical day alone at our remote off-grid permaculture farm looks like. We are still finish...

18/03/2022

Happy Holi everyone! It is rhododendron flower time again and the forest is full of pink 🌺 I am foraging flowers to make tea and juice and to dry them for later! Wait for the next video and join me in the Himalayan forest 🤗.

11/03/2022

Check out our new video! We are looking back at the last winter weeks of February and are starting spring with lots of fresh energy. The coming months we are tackling all half-finished projects 💪😄.

https://youtu.be/rBJLo6xrL5M

Spring has started at Vanirah Farm. And this means the work has also started again in full swing! We have quite some help now, which means we can focus on fi...

09/03/2022

A self-build home with an orchard, on the top of a mountain in the Himalayas 🧡🏔.

26/02/2022

Last week we went on a small trip. We walked down to the village around noon to attend a wedding there. Several days of the marriage had already passed and we attended the day of the actual wedding ceremony. Which was actually not even the day with the most amount of people according to the villagers! We had a tasty buffet style lunch there and it was good to catch up with people. At the end of the afternoon we went to another village, located on the other side of our mountaintop (oke, I know its not actually OUR mountain top, but still.. it sometimes does feel like it haha). At the village, we relaxed around the bonfire outside, had a fulfilling dinner and a nice warm shower (which had been some time, since showering is not so easy at the farm yet). The next morning we relaxed a bit, saw how the family started up the day with farm chores and had a delicious breakfast of Pahadi (mountain) roti and freshly churned butter. We absolutely love this! We planned to walk up to the farm from this side of the mountain and left with our friend/neighbour immediately after breakfast. He also went to his chhani (summer farm), which is close to our farm on top of the hill. It is a beautiful trek.

https://youtu.be/vx_lQhgwh2E

Last week we went on a small trip. We walked down to the village around noon to attend a wedding there. Several days of the marriage had already passed and w...

25/02/2022

Nothing above Pahadi hospitality 🧡. We love this mountain life!

Check our new YouTube video which will come up tomorrow for our trip to our fiends place in the village.

23/02/2022

A walk in the woods. On our way back to the farm from a night at our friends place in the village.

😊

21/02/2022

Which animal do you see in this picture?

19/02/2022

Everyone smiles the same language 😁💃. At a wedding in Dhuink village.

18/02/2022

After the snow has melted we can continue to work outside here at Vanirah Farm 🧑‍🌾. We are transplanting kiwis and other fruit trees and plants. It is good to be outside again. And the views are absolutely stunning during these cold winter days! We also slowly continue finishing the earthbag/superadobe dome house. Taking it one project at the time. Todays project is sanding of the mezzanine floor. At the same time, we are already preparing for future projects, like whole farm chainlink fencing, ferrocement dome roof, finishing all construction projects, drinkwater filtration system and building several greenhouses. And then we still hope to have time to start building our guest cottages before rainy season. Very ambitious, but exciting as well. And if we are able to find enough people to help us out, it might be even doable?! 🤔

After the snow has melted we can continue to work outside here at Vanirah Farm. We are transplanting kiwis and other fruit trees and plants. It is good to be...

17/02/2022

Transplanting kiwis to a place where we can give them better care and attention. Eagerly waiting for the fruits this year! 🤤

16/02/2022

This is our first YouTube vlog 😁. We are planning to make regular videos of the farm life. The building, gardening, the animals, the food preserving and everything else that involves living sustainable and remote, a good idea? Like the video and subscribe to our channel if you want to see more of us!

A winter walk around Vanirah Farm in the Indian Himalayas. It snows! We spend the last days on working on the earthen (earthbag/ super adobe) dome kitchen at...