Agro tourism · Murbad, Western Ghats
Twenty acres under Bureau Veritas organic certification, two hours from Mumbai. Cows that are milked, trees that are picked, compost that smells like compost.
The honest version
A lot of places near Mumbai use the words. Fewer of them farm. What usually happens is a lawn, a swing, two goats in a pen and a buffet — a resort with a tractor parked outside for the photographs.
Nehamrit is a working farm first. The certification is not decorative: Bureau Veritas audits it, and it was renewed again for 2026. That means no synthetic fertiliser, no chemical pesticide, and a paper trail for all of it. It also means the farm has jobs that need doing on the morning you happen to be here, and you are welcome to go and watch them, or help, or sit under a tree while somebody else does.
Nobody will hand you a schedule at check-in. If you would rather spend two days reading on a sit-out and never see a cow, that is a perfectly good way to use the place.
We wrote more about the distinction in Why We Stopped Calling Ourselves a Resort, and about what the certificate actually covers in What ‘Organic’ Means When We Say It.
Papaya, watermelon, jamun, mulberry, mango, guava, chikoo, banana and gooseberry — the orchard rows run most of the length of the farm, and what is ready depends entirely on when you come. Mango is the loud one. Jamun and mulberry stain your fingers and are worth it.
Beyond the fruit there is a working vegetable patch and a polyhouse. In a good week the kitchen barely has to buy anything in. Guests are welcome to walk the rows, pull something up, and hand it over at the kitchen door.
The rest is trees, lawn, water and the space between them. Twenty acres is larger than it sounds until you try to walk the boundary.
Gir is an indigenous Indian breed from Gujarat — slow, heavy, hump-shouldered, and far less productive than the crossbreeds most dairies run. Keeping them is a decision rather than an accident.
They are the reason the compost works. Farmyard manure from Gir cattle is the backbone of the soil programme here, which is the unglamorous half of organic farming that nobody photographs. The milk is a by-product of the manure, not the other way round.
Morning is the time to see them. Children tend to lose an hour there.
Through the year
The best of it, and the least crowded. Everything turns green in about a fortnight. The Kalu river runs hard, the waterfalls on the Malshej road are at full volume, and you can hear rain arrive before it lands. Trails get slippery and leeches are a real thing on the wetter paths — wear proper shoes and socks.
Cold mornings, clean light, and the best birding of the year. Migratory species come through the reservoir nearby. This is when the trekking is easiest and the bonfire earns its keep.
Mango, and plenty of it. Hot in the afternoon, which is what the pools are for. Early mornings and evenings on the farm are the good hours; the middle of the day is for lying down.
Over a hundred species have been recorded on and around the farm — flamingo, Alpine Swift, Whistling Thrush, Purple Moorhen, Quail, Pied Crested Cuckoo. Bring binoculars. The reservoir made by the Pimpalgaon Joga dam is the place to go at first light.
The kitchen cooks what the morning brought in. That is not a slogan; it is a constraint. Some days it means a vegetable you have not eaten before, and some days it means the dal, which people write to us about afterwards.
Meals are optional. The base rate is room only. Breakfast for two can be added, and there is a full-board option if you would rather not think about it for two days. The Farm Kitchen page has the detail.
If you want the recipe rather than the meal, the house dal is written out in the Journal.
From Mumbai: about 100 km, roughly two to two and a half hours on a clear run via the Kalyan–Murbad road. Sunday evenings back are slower; leave before four if you can.
From Pune: also about 100 km, but closer to three hours because of the ghat section.
From Thane: the shortest run of the three — around 70 km, and usually the easiest drive of any of them.
We are 20 km past Malshej Ghat, at Sukudwadi fata near Village Mal in Murbad taluka. Two people have written up the drive properly: from Mumbai and from Pune.
Where you would sleep
Canvas at one end, a four-bedroom villa with its own pool at the other. Fourteen rooms in total, which is small enough that the farm never feels busy.
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A courtyard. A pool. Only yours.
Before you come
We are set up for overnight stays rather than day visits; the four stays are what the farm sells. If you are planning something for a group and want to ask about a daytime arrangement, WhatsApp us and we will tell you honestly whether the date works.
Yes. The farm is certified organic by Bureau Veritas and the certification was renewed for 2026. It covers the growing practice across the twenty acres — no synthetic fertiliser and no chemical pesticide, with the audit trail that goes with it.
In practice, very little — the words are used interchangeably in this part of Maharashtra. Where it matters is whether there is a working farm behind the words. At Nehamrit the farming came first and the rooms came after, so the orchards, the polyhouse and the Gir cattle are all real operations rather than a display.
About 100 km, or two to two and a half hours by road via Kalyan and Murbad. From Pune it is a similar distance but closer to three hours. From Thane it is around 70 km.
You are welcome to. Walk the orchard rows, pick what is ripe, watch the morning milking, hand something over at the kitchen door. Nothing is compulsory and there is no fixed programme — if you would rather sit still for two days, that is fine too.
Monsoon, from June to September, is the most striking and our own favourite. October to February gives you cold mornings, clear light and the best birding. March to May is mango season and hot in the afternoons, which is what the pools are for.
Not in the base rate, which is room only. Breakfast for two can be added at ₹500 per night, and a full food package covering all meals is ₹1,750 per person per day. Almost everything on the plate is grown here.
Wi-Fi covers the reception and the library lounge. Mobile signal varies by network and by where you are standing on the farm. We would rather tell you that now than have you discover it on arrival.
Pick your dates and your corner of the farm. We will have the lamps lit by the time you reach the gate.
Or call +91 99806 79595
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