Weekend Escape
Saturday lunch to Sunday breakfast
The most popular format. Arrive by noon on Saturday, settle in over lunch, and let the farm take it from there. Check out Sunday morning, back in Bangalore by noon.
From ₹3,000 / person / night
Your weekends deserve more than recovery from your weeks
Five cottages on an 8-acre mango farm in Talakadu. 2.5 hours from Bangalore. Organic vegetarian meals, century-old trees, and the kind of quiet that works any day of the week.
2.5 hrs
from Bangalore
8 acres
of mango orchard
5
cottages, no more
100+
mango trees
You keep planning getaways that exhaust you before they start.
Five hours to Coorg. Half the weekend gone before you've left the car. A resort with a DJ, a crowded pool, and buffet food that tastes like compromise. You return on Sunday more depleted than you left.
What you needed was closer, simpler, and slower: a place where meals come from the soil beneath your feet, where the canopy overhead is a hundred years old, and where no one expects you to do anything with your time.
We built that place. It's 130 km from Bangalore, straight down Kanakapura Road. No ghat roads. No traffic crawl. Leave at 9, arrive by noon.
The Farm
Eight acres of mango orchard embracing every visitor
Mango Mulch sits in the heartland of Talakadu, an ancient temple town near Mysore. Century-old mango trees anchor the property, their canopy covering every path you tread on the farm and shelter five cottages in dappled light.
The farm is a working ecosystem. Organic vegetables, millets, fruit trees, and cows feed into each other. What the farm grows, you eat. What you leave behind returns to the soil. Sudhi and Ashwini have lived this way for years. You're stepping into their rhythm.
The Land
Peacocks at dawn, the Cauvery at dusk
Sugarcane and ragi fields stretch on one side. Cauvery a few mins walk on the other. Peacocks roam freely. On clear nights, the sky delivers a million stars without asking.
The ancient temples of Talakadu are four kilometres away. Shivanasamudra waterfalls, an hour. But most guests discover the farm has more than enough to fill the days. Or to leave them empty, which is the point.
The Cottages
Five cottages. Three ways to stay.
Three buildings, sheltered by the same canopy. Each set frames the farm a little differently. Pick what matches the kind of weekend you came for.
Reserve
Shraddha & Sadhana
for the ones who need a long view to think clearly
The most spacious of the cottages. Sadhana faces a small lotus pond, with the seasonal paddy fields beyond. Shraddha looks out across an unbroken stretch of farm — no fence in sight, the orchard breathing in through the room. Built for unhurried mornings and slow afternoons.
Wide windowsLotus-pond viewOpen farm outlookMost spacious
₹3,500 / person / night
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Solitude
Shanti
for the ones who want no one on the other side of the wall
A round-walled cottage under century-old mango trees. One side opens to the shared garden; the other looks out on the seasonal crop — ragi, sugarcane, pulses, with the occasional peacock crossing through. No neighbours. No shared wall.
Round wallsDual aspectOpen farm viewUnder the canopy
₹3,000 / person / night
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Together
Shruti & Smriti
for the ones who travel together but sleep apart
Two cottages, one wing, one veranda between them. Shruti opens to the vegetable garden; Smriti to the courtyard. Built for families and small groups — four to six — who want their own door but the same lunch table.
Twin cottagesShared verandaGarden viewsSleeps 4–6
₹3,000 / person / night
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The Table
The menu is whatever the farm grew this week
Millets from the field. Vegetables from the garden. Fruit from the orchard. Every meal is vegetarian, organic, and cooked by hand — served with warmth and the kind of plenty that only home cooking carries.
Seasonal, millet-forward, and made with produce that travelled about thirty feet to reach your plate. Guests remember the food here long after they've forgotten what the cottage looked like.
- Breakfast9 am
- Lunch1 pm
- Supper8 pm
Ways to Stay
The farm is open every day. Weekends are the most popular. They're not the only option.
Some guests come for a night. Some come for a week. The orchard doesn't care what day it is, and neither do we.
Midweek Reset
Monday through Thursday
The farm is quieter midweek. If you work remotely or have the flexibility, a Tuesday on the farm does what Saturday does with fewer people around.
From ₹3,000 / person / night
Long Stay
A week or more
The days on a farm pass faster than you expect. Extended stays come with discounted rates and the chance to fall into the farm's rhythm. Bring books. Bring a yoga mat. Leave the laptop open to negotiation.
Custom rates / contact us
Guest Reviews
What guests say
4.7
157 reviews on Google
Anil Kumar Pammidimukkala
Local Guide
4 months ago“Lovely, lonely, peaceful haven for a solo or a couple journey. Nice hosts and no service required, really. Tranquil with homely food and great solitude. When you visit ensure that you stay, at least for a week or more.”
Suresh Ramaswamy
Local Guide
5 months ago“Charming farmstay with ancient mango trees and lovely gardens. Clean and comfortable cottages. Food is local and fresh vegetarian fare. Not a luxury resort or a party place, but peaceful and serene. Highly recommend it!”
Globe Trotter
Local Guide · 1,335 reviews
7 months ago“Lovable couple running this cute home stay in a lovely old mango orchard. Simple wholesome tasty vegetarian cuisine.”
Madhura Krishnamurthy
4 months ago“Very pristine and well maintained farm stay. Go here if you want to connect with yourself and nature. Do nothing and get rejuvenated 🥰 Great for bird watching enthusiasts.. Was lucky to spot Indian paradise flycatchers hopping around right in front of me..”
Vishwanath Joshi
Local Guide
10 months ago“Great place. You have to spend half a day, without a phone connect, to relish the peace of the nature. Wonderful and nourishing vegetarian lunch.”
Bhavia Raghavan
Local Guide
a year ago“We had a wonderful stay at mango mulch. Stunning property just amidst the nature. Lovely clean rooms, delicious home cooked food. Beautiful property, mango trees, chirping of birds just transcends one to the symphony of nature.”
A day here
The rhythm of a stay
Whether it's a Saturday or a Wednesday, the shape of a day on the farm stays the same. Meals anchor the time. Everything between them is yours.
Noon
Check in. Lunch is waiting.
Home-cooked, farm-fresh, served with warmth. Your stay starts with a meal, the way it should.
Afternoon
The hammock wins.
Read. Sleep. Walk through the orchard. Find the sunset point by the river. There's no itinerary and no one checking on you.
Evening
Stars and supper.
Dinner at 8, served hot, relished at your own pace. Afterwards, the kind of darkness that reminds you what a million stars look like.
Morning
Peacocks before coffee.
They announce themselves before dawn. Coffee follows. Breakfast at 9. Yoga if you want it, silence if you don't.
10 am
Check out, or stay another day.
2.5 hours back to Bangalore if you're leaving. Or extend your stay and watch the farm do it all again.
A few things we chose on purpose
These shape the experience. They're the reason the quiet here feels the way it does.
- Vegetarian, organic, farm-grown.The food comes from here.
- No television.The sky at night is better programming.
- No alcohol, no smoking.The air here is worth tasting clean.
- No loud music.The peacocks handle the soundtrack.
- Meals at set times.Eating together is part of the rhythm.
- No room service.Walk to the dining area. The path is the point.
The Hosts
Sudhi and Ashwini built this place to live in, then decided to share it
A civil engineer and an architect who stepped away from their careers and into this farm. They built a courtyard house here, a small temple, and the first three cottages. They rear cows, grow organic vegetables, and practice yoga at dawn.
They opened the doors because they believed other people were looking for the same thing they found: a way to live that's slower, simpler, and connected to the land. You're visiting a home that happens to have guest cottages. The difference shows.
Getting Here
Kanakapura Road, straight south, no drama
130 km from Bangalore on good roads through open countryside. No hairpin bends, no ghat sections. The road opens up past Kanakapura, and the last stretch runs through sugarcane fields with the Cauvery glinting in the distance.
- Bangalore130 km · 2.5 hours
- Mysore50 km · 1 hour
- Bangalore Airport175 km · 3.5 hours
- Talakadu town4 km
Book Direct
We respond within a few hours
Send us a message or call. Weekends between October and February fill up fastest. Midweek stays are easier to get on short notice.
- Phone / WhatsApp
- +91 8971362864
- mulchmango@gmail.com
- Address
- Kurubalanahundi Road, T. Bettahalli, near Mudukutore Mallikarjuna Temple,
Talakadu, Karnataka 571122
Closer than Coorg. Quieter than you expect. Open every day of the week.
Five cottages. A hundred mango trees. Zero agendas.