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Hidden among the trees, with views over the permaculture garden and the Pyrenees beyond, this oak treehouse comes with the warning of being a gateway habitat:
Irresistible to everyone, very accessible to first-time eco-travellers, but at its very core a demonstration of how regenerative tourism over the course of 20+ years can provide landscapes with the capacity to grow from a single place into a regional matriarch - the mother tree nurturing a whole region.
Your hosts are an everyday living practice of daily farm life, orchard-garden production, guest participation, ecological meals, bioregional restoration, culture, heritage, artisanal livelihoods, and the slow reversal of rural outmigration.
That is what you support when choosing this romantic refuge in the trees: a narrative so rich we will not even attempt to cram it all into one listing description. Alright… we’ll reveal a little more in their Nature Profile.
This bio-based building feels personal and warm. The round wooden space holds the sleeping area and a compost toilet, while outside, the terrace invites slow breakfasts, farm immersion, and long views. The nearby houses provide the rest: your own private bathroom with shower, as well as access to the shared kitchen-dining room, library, games room, and common spaces. You can bring your own food, order a breakfast basket to be delivered, or prepare meals in the central kitchen.
Note: while your hosts hold a richness that can only come from 20 years of system-building, Spanish is the only language spoken well on site. Your check-in 101 will work in English, but if you are looking for depth and understanding, a little Spanish is advisable.
This habitat is for:
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2 Adults, 0 Child (Max guests: 2)
Check-in: 06:00 pm
Check-out: 10:00 am
Drinking water
Compost toilet
Hot Shower
Electricity
Wi-Fi
Motivated simply by the will "to improve this little piece of the world” and to find synergies with others, Alicia and Luismi show what 21 years of consistency, care, and resilience can grow into: something GoHabitat can only dream of helping achieve at a wider scale.
This is amongst the most illustrative narratives of how to actually build new systems. What began with self-sufficiency at farm level now spills outward into wider forms of local and regional capacity building.
Without becoming ideological or inaccessible, they have quietly braided everyday life into a living system engaging with challenges far beyond their own land: reversing rural decline, restoring abandoned community lands, recovering heritage and culture, supporting local cooperation, and spreading new perspectives amongst conventional Basque farmers through practical, holistic action. They lead by doing, with warmth rather than pretension.
At farm level, guests are invited into a participatory experience rather than kept at a distance. Each day at 10:00, guests can join the family farm rounds to feed animals, collect eggs, brush donkeys, and learn more about the rhythms of the farm and the wider ecological corridor they feel responsible for.
Food is another strong expression of their values. Around 90% of what they serve is organic, sourced partly from their own ecological farm-garden, partly from ecological producers in the zone, and partly through Landare, the ecological consumer association. Their preference is firmly local and kilometre-zero wherever possible.
Circular thinking is everywhere: bioconstruction, ecological paints, reused materials, and second-hand elements are part of the fabric of the place. Around 75% of heating demand is met through biomass, with wood stoves and a pellet boiler using firewood from the village’s common forest, supported by solar.
Waste flows between animals, compost, orchard-garden, and table while packaging is reduced and recycling is strict.
Across the wider system, Alicia and Luismi are involved in community work on old springs, rainwater capture and other efforts to restore the surrounding hills through cooperative care. Most exemplary is their regenerative virtual grazing system, used to help clear and fertilise soils and restore abandoned land while working toward reintroducing local cattle breeds.
This is what spillover looks like when bottom-up regeneration is given water, oxygen, sun, shade, care and patience. The best possible demonstration of how your stay matters in supporting long-term social, cultural, and ecological renewal, step by step, rooted in place.
Farm-to-Table dinner 68,00 €
Fresh produce breakfast 14,00 €/Night
Farm Tour 22,00 €
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