Women-led hospitality roles
Kitchen, guest rituals, and housekeeping are shaped by local women.
Their work is visible, respected, and consistently paid — from the morning the kitchen fires start, to the last guest saying goodnight.
Community & Impact
Small scale, but rooted in the people and the land around us.
The stay only makes sense if the place around it benefits too — in hiring, in sourcing, and in the way the household actually works.
Ten years ago, this was sand and rock
Every tree here was planted by hand, one at a time.
Every tree standing here now was planted by hand, one at a time, starting from bare ground. When it came time to build the restaurant and the rooms, we worked around what had grown rather than clearing it — nothing here was cut down to make room. That work of tending the land never really finished: keeping this grove alive takes steady care, and we don't do it alone. Families from the villages around us water it, tend it, replant what doesn't make it through a season. The land got built the same way The Grove did — by people showing up for it, year after year.
The Main Grove
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The Central Courtyard
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The Western Edge
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Kitchen & Restaurant Site
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The Northern Fields
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Suite One Site
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The Main Grove
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The Central Courtyard
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The Western Edge
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Kitchen & Restaurant Site
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The Northern Fields
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Suite One Site
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Impact in detail
A slower hospitality, visible inside every small decision.
Local sourcing
Milk, produce, herbs, and eggs come first from the farm.
What the farm cannot grow comes from nearby families and farms we've built long, slow relationships with over years.
Steady village employment
Twelve village families work with The Grove, year after year.
In steady roles on the property, or in guiding partnerships tied to The Grove's stays — not seasonal short-term work that drops off when guests do.
Built by people we already trusted
The same hands built this family's home before they built The Grove.
The Grove relies on the same local tradespeople this family has worked with for years — not contracted in from outside, but people whose skills were already trusted long before there was a hotel to build. Suraj and Deepak, brothers and carpenters, built every piece of furniture in the house by hand. Salim leads the property's ironwork, his brother working alongside him. Pravesh has kept the electrics running for years and remains, by everyone's admission, irreplaceable. Durga collects milk from the farm's cows each morning and turns it into the ghee, butter, and buttermilk the kitchen runs on. Trilok is training in the kitchen under Priya and Yashwant Kumari, learning skills that will stay with him well beyond this job. None of it is outsourced. These are the same hands, and the same relationships, that built this family's home before they built The Grove.
Statistics
The Grove in numbers, each one a person, a family, or a partnership.
Every number below is a small story of something that was tended to, rather than something that was purchased or rushed into place.
18
local women employed
Across kitchen, housekeeping, and guest experiences.
52%
produce from the farm
Milk and dairy - curd, butter, ghee - along with herbs and eggs, shape the daily menu.
12
village families supported
Through steady work and guiding partnerships.
8
local craftsmen behind The Grove
Suraj and Deepak's handmade furniture, Salim's ironwork, and Pravesh keeping everything running.
95%
of everything we've planted here, still growing
Ten years ago this was bare sand and rock; today it's the grove guests walk through.
Visit with intention
The choice to stay quietly is also a choice about where the community around us grows.
If this matters to you as much as it matters to us, we would love to tell you more about the people and partnerships behind every part of the house.