Rubber Plantation:

The rubber plantation a stone throw away from the mock-up village gives the visitor a first hand glimpse of how sap from rubber trees is tapped and rubber sheets made.

The plantation also gives the place a green, cool and pleasant look.

The plantation enhances the natural beauty of the green surroundings and keeps the campus pleasant and cool.

Spice and Fruit Garden

The Spice Garden and Fruit orchard at Ancestral Goa, has the entire refreshing range of spices, vegetables and fruits that are to be found in Goa.

The plants here are watered via canals by the old method that incorporated the principle of using counterweights, the waste water from the restaurant is also recycled and used for irrigation at the spice and fruit garden.

Use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is completely avoided here in keeping with the eco-friendly nature of the project. All plants are nourished with organic manure and by the process of mulching. Vermiculture is also demonstrated here.

Bird Habitat:

Trekking through the lush vegetable, fruit and spice garden, as one approaches India's longest laterite sculpture, a whole section of the thickly wooded hill untouched and untrod upon by humans is inhabited by a vibrant selection of birds.

This one green protion of the otherwise landscape hillside acts as a natural habitat where a wide variety of local and exotic birds fly in. Among the well-know species are the Kingfisher, Bulbul, Crane, Owl, Pigeon, Koel, Myan, Parakeet, Wagtail, Woodpecker, Gold throat, Weaverbird, Crow Pheasant, commener Babbler, wild fowl, Golden Oriole, Partridge, Racket Tailed Drongo, Paddy Bird, Baya Weaver, Sunbird, Bee Eater, Paradise flycatcher, Fantail flycatcher, and many others.