We are farmers by lived experience. We chanced upon these rolling meadows. A quaint intuition that this mesmerising silent place could be part of our working middle class family history led to the crowd sourcing of funds to preserve the land, protect its pastoral beauty and ensure the sweeping views simply for the joy of a future generation. Income from our jobs and time after office, weekends and holidays have gone into making it a beautiful, well equipped Farm .
Nothing about Farm life is about making life simpler. Nothing at all! In fact, it is a cracked idea. We, farmers by lived experience, have been crossing paths with all kinds of living things – ones with legs, ones with leaves, ones with wings, ones tiny but merciless, ones with brains who surprise us with their friendship and their strangeness for twelve years and only in the last few years have we been blessed with our efforts here finally bearing fruit in the shape of coffee and spice. Covid made us realise that while we can continue to be determined to pursue a Working Farm, we needed a verdant bosom in the midst of Farm Life, like a private den or a reading room with a thick wooden door in a housefull of noisy kids!
Thus, Shibira was born. It was a gift to ourselves and an ode to the Farm we’ve developed over time and will constantly strive to improve. Our Story – Trends Die – can be read in Knowledge Hive.
What we Believe
Recharge your batteries at our Farm but don’t be unduly worried about unplugging completely…
Trek to the stream for a bath in flowing water or just use our Outdoor Shower to clean up and if you want privacy our many Restrooms…
Camping doesn’t have to be an endurance test for it to be a calming effect or teach “life” lessons…
The quiet eliminates distractions. Expect a noisy quiet with calls of birds and the soulful timbre of your conversations…
We don’t believe that romanticizing being wet, hot or cold serves any “higher” purpose in our life…
Secured with a solar powered fence surrounded by our coffee estates and plain meadows and you are unlikely to get any unwanted human visitors…
Shibira The Camp, Sakleshpur 