Colonel's Retreat at Mavady Hills offers exclusive premium home stay facilities for individuals and families in a couple of comfortable bed rooms with spacious private balconies, which are almost suspended in the foliage , and overlook the forest stream cascading over the rocks below. The Retreat has all modern amenities and is set in the picture-postcard surroundings of a sprawling plantation. The climate at Mavady Hills is salubrious throughout the year.

They have an organic farming environment modeled on the lines propounded by Masanobu Fukuoka of “The One Straw revolution" fame.

They use no chemical manure. Organic manure is used. Vermi-compost is produced in the farm itself.

The irrigation is done by rain harvesting thus saving energy.

Solar panels are used for heating water.

They use no air conditioners. Ten trees are said to give the effect of a 1 ton air conditioner. They have hundreds of trees all around Colonel's Retreat.

The home is a luxury eco-friendly home stay. It has been designed and built to maximize natural ventilation. This is also supplemented by large ceiling fans. “

They are surrounded by natural vegetation with so much to see and so many birds to watch. Television is neither required nor available.
No musical system so that the guests can hear the natural music of the murmuring brooks and chirping birds.

Only locals who would have otherwise remained unemployed are in the staff.

Maximum use of local products is made