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"When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in bluebirds, bobolinks and thrushes: as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying." –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Within 90 minutes drive from Bangalore, Silver Oak offers you and your family, a picturesque 'hill-station' get-away, a tranquil ambience, and clean fresh air. This is a unique opportunity to actively participate in rural life, as Silver Oak is an eco-friendly farm on ten acres of fertile land, located on the early slopes of the famous Nandi Hills (Wikipedia). The location is picturesque | ||
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by day and by night,
the ambience tranquil, the weather comfortable year round, and we do
have our share of a large variety of beautiful birds and 'sublime
mornings and sunsets.'
Merely
60 kms from Bangalore, our farm is on the traditional route leading
up to the temple on Nandi Hills. While this route is used even today
by a large number of pilgrims, it also offers enthusiastic trekkers a
scenic and fairly challenging climb up Nandi Hills. The road is
motor able up to the gate of Silver Oak and then continues as steps to
the famous Yoganandeeswara temple at the top of Nandi Hill. |
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Over
weekends (Friday to Sunday) and on public holidays,
subject to prior confirmed booking, we open our farm to visitors
offering them the experience of country life with wholesome,
home-cooked food and a relaxed, comfortable home-stay facility.
Continental cuisine is our specialty, prepared with produce
largely grown on the farm. |
Photograph by S C Bali |
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Built on the hillside, our farmhouse offers magnificent views of the surrounding hills and plains in any direction you look. These are best enjoyed from the spacious verandah in the front of the house. This is a pleasant place to relax during the day or in the evenings and to enjoy the calm, the solitude and the clean fresh air of the countryside. All
cultivation is strictly organic in discipline. Apart from
the banana, papaya and coconut plantation, we have our own kitchen garden
where we grow a variety of vegetables and herbs, enough to meet our
own in-house requirement. A variety of fruit trees will in due
course give us organically grown fruit; we are already harvesting custard apple,
papaya, banana, passion fruit, chiku, guava, pomegranate and watermelon. We also have country chickens, which give us
fresh wholesome eggs as well as birds for the table. Guests and their
children |
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