Vayu Kutir

  At Vayu Kutir, we serve our guests organic food cooked using farm-grown vegetables, grains, lentils, and spices. Growing bottle gourd, even during the peak summer month of May, can be surprisingly easy and rewarding. And we just harvested seven very beautiful looking laukis.  Getting a bountiful harvest is simple, it is easy. There are three things that you need to keep in mind. 1. Hoe the vine bed every four days. 2. Place three-four pieces of mustard oil cake on the sides of where the plant is growing.  3. Flood the bed with water at dusk and cover it with hay so that the bed retains the moisture. No fertilizers, no pesticides!

  At Vayu Kutir micro resort, we bake our own bread, buns, and cakes using red wheat flour. The hostess prepares them with a mother’s touch and lovingly shares them with guests who opt to have breakfast in-house. She serves these baked delights with farm-fresh eggs laid by hens fed on organically grown farm produce.

  Jawalamukhi Temple Message Us on WhatsApp Vayu Kutir is ideally placed for visiting the Shaktipeeth temples in Kangra - Baglamukhi (Bankhandi), Jawalamukhi, Chintpurni, Brajeshwari Devi (Kangra) and Chamunda Devi (Near Dharamshala) temples.  Jawalamukhi and Baglamukhi temples are just 25 to 35 min drive. Chintpurni is around 45 min drive.  A two night stay at Vayu Kutir will allow you to visit all the five temples in a relaxed manner. 

Chikoo (Sapodilla) tree in Vayu Kutir yard. The tree appears noticeably unbalanced — with very few branches on the sunnier side, but many long, healthy branches on the other side. Roughly speaking, the branches extend barely 1 metre on the sunny side, but nearly 2 metres on the other side, where they seem determined to enter our window. Normally, a healthy Sapodilla tree bears more fruit on the sunnier side, provided it is otherwise healthy and not water-stressed. Curiously, our Chikoo tree hardly bears any fruit on the sunny side. Instead, it produces many large and delicious fruits on the shadier side. Even more curiously, the window the branches appear to be reaching toward belongs to my exercise room. I usually exercise there while listening to Hot Right Now – International on Alexa, and my wife has accordingly christened it “the Alexa room.” She firmly believes the Chikoo tree is being lured toward the room by the music that regularly plays there. Could she be right?