A working fruit grove, run as a club.
At the foot of Tamhini Ghat.
The grove is in Ville, Maharashtra, at the foot of Tamhini Ghat — an hour and a half from Hinjawadi, three and a half hours from BKC. The fruit canopy is real and working: chikoo, guava, custard apple, mango, kokum, cashew, and seasonal berries. You arrive into a place that is being farmed, not staged.
We built this for the kind of weekend we’d stopped having.
There is a question many of us keep coming back to, usually in a cab to the airport, usually after a particularly brutal week. Why do weekends now exhaust us more than weekdays?
We traced it to a simple problem. The places we escape to are built around the same pace we are trying to escape. Brunches. Bars. Loud rooftops. More people. More decisions. More phone. Sunday evening arrives, and the body that was supposed to rest has only been louder, in a different setting.
Club Parijat is our answer. A working fruit grove, designed not as a resort, but as a small, deliberately-restricted nature club for the kind of weekend we’d all stopped having.
The point is not to relax better. The point is to make presence infrastructural.
A nature club. Not a resort.
We are a private members’ club at a working orchard. Member experience comes first; the rhythm and quiet of the grove come before anything else. We don’t sell day passes. We don’t keep the kitchen open until midnight.
The kitchen is lacto-vegetarian and farm-to-fork. There is no alcohol on the property. Programming happens around the seasons, not around your calendar. These are features, not restrictions — they are what makes the place quiet enough to be worth coming to.
One hundred founding members. Ten years.
We are accepting the first hundred founding members by application. The membership runs ten years on purpose. Anything shorter lets people treat this as a weekend gym membership, and it isn’t. The grove will take ten years to mature into what we think it will become. We want members and the place to grow into each other.
The founding fee of ₹3,00,000 is a special price for these first hundred members only. After the founding hundred, membership will move to a different fee structure. Facilities come online in deliberate phases — members gain access to each as it is built, and the founding fee does not step up as the place fills out. That is the entire point of the ten-year horizon.