Eco-
vacation

Keeping your stay as natural as possible and giving nature its freedom are our top priorities. The center is our large, newly created food forest with an integrated permaculture garden. This feeds us and our guests seasonally all year round and sometimes helps to maintain the sensitive ecosystem and ensure sustainable holidays. Live in harmony with nature. We present ourselves inspired by nature

Switch off and arrive in a little paradise. Our habitat. Let your soul dangle in our high quality furnished, very comfortable lodges.

Wake up in nature and start the day relaxed and not have to think about what is coming next and just let yourself go.

This is vacation.

Today it is even more important to get back to our roots. One factor for us is to become more independent from trade. We attach great importance to produce as much as possible ourselves. Whether it is the large variety of vegetables and fruits from our garden, our own bread, fresh goat cheese or homemade soap and detergent, even fertilizer. Furthermore we try out a lot and always try to find new ways to produce something ourselves.
We know exactly what the ingredients are and save a lot of long delivery routes and packaging waste.

Tourists cause around fourteen percent of the world’s municipal waste – according to an estimate by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). This puts a particular strain on those municipalities whose economy is largely based on tourism. Europe is particularly affected: of the one point one billion tourist arrivals worldwide, six hundred million come from Europe alone (UNWTO estimate).

Let’s start rethinking and living sustainable tourism

Whole areas are affected by chemicals. Farmers use pesticides to make the grain grow faster or inedible to insects. We have chosen a 100% sustainable and natural way. We do not use chemicals on our vegetables, trees or in the household. Everything we use is biodegradable and most of it is actually produced by us.

From a global perspective, it´s very important that each of us contributes to saving water in daily use. However, this is all the more important in very dry areas and countries. Portugal, especially the southern regions such as the Algarve and the Alentejo, is very much affected by the water shortage during the hot summer. We attach great importance to saving water and especially to recycling and reusing water. A big saving factor are among other things our compost toilets, the greywater from kitchen and shower is filtered from various roots and layers of earth and supplies among other things our Foodforest and the vegetable garden.

How many more food scandals, inscrutable lists of ingredients and reports of animal despicable husbandry methods will it take before the rethinking in our society leads to action? Together we can take a step forward: whether as allotment gardeners, keepers of farm animals or self-sufficient farmers.

We here try to produce as much as possible ourselves. Whether it’s preserving vegetables, juices, cheese or even detergents and soaps. Our chickens give us eggs, from our garden we can harvest sponges, from the willow trees along the river we can make our own baskets and we use our trees in the forest as construction wood.