Sustainable Production
Jams, Holi colours, a hillside farm and rural work in Uttarakhand.
Location
Rishikesh and Dimber, Uttarakhand
Project lead
Himanshu Bahuguna
Domain
Sustainable Production
Focus
Jams, Holi colours, farming, agro-tourism
Farm
1 acre for slow farming
For
Villagers, women, marginalised groups
About
Production, the farm, local work and the landscape are meant to stay connected.
Nature2Nature works from Rishikesh and Dimber, near Dehradun Aerocity. It makes preservative-free jams and chemical-free Holi colours, and is opening the hillside to visitors and a farm stay.
Himanshu Bahuguna leads the work with local villagers, women and communities from scheduled caste and tribal backgrounds. SHAPE has supported it with a soft loan and monthly help.
Our work
Jams and colours, a slow acre, village work, and SHAPE’s loan.
01 / Products
Jams need care in fruit, recipe, hygiene, processing, packing and shelf life, because they cannot lean on strong additives.
Holi colours are made so they are kinder to skin, soil and water than common synthetic powders.
Pickles and chutneys are planned next, so more of a crop is sold as food, not only as raw fruit.
02 / Farm
Near Dehradun and Rishikesh, one acre is set aside for soil, seasons and local varieties, not maximum short-term yield.
Fruit processed next to the field keeps more value in the village than selling the crop raw.
03 / Work
Farming, fruit, processing, packing, hospitality, cooking, guiding and crafts.
Seasonal farm work and weak markets often push people to leave.
Food processing and visitors can keep more of the year in the village.
04 / SHAPE support
About ₹2.3 lakh as a soft loan, and about ₹15,000 a month for one and a half years from August 2023.
Used for fruit, jam making, packing, labour, wages and early marketing.
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Impact
Products and training are running. The café and farm stay are still being built.
₹2.3 lakh
SHAPE soft loan
₹15,000
Monthly help, 18 months from Aug 2023
1 acre
Slow farming
3–4 years
Farm stay horizon
Next
Along the Rishikesh–Dehradun corridor: an agro café and farm visits, so people eat and walk where the fruit grows. A hillside farm stay is planned over three to four years, for longer stays and smaller groups, not mass tourism.
The next work also needs a clearer product face and buyers who value natural production. Visibility is the present pinch.
Agro café and farm visits
Hillside farm stay in 3–4 years
Pickles and chutneys
Clearer packaging and buyers
A guest should meet the farm, the jam and the people who made them, not only a packet on a shelf.
FAQ
Contact
For products, hospitality or support, write to SHAPE or see the Nature2Nature site.
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