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Whole Farmhouse on organic orchard

Wellen, Belgium
  • Whole Farmhouse on organic orchard
  • Whole Farmhouse on organic orchard
  • Whole Farmhouse on organic orchard
  • Whole Farmhouse on organic orchard
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    • This house offers guests a place of their own in a biodynamic orchard. The newly renovated house fits up to 4 guests and a baby. It is heated by a masonry stove and crafted with natural, low-impact materials, from clay-finished walls and bio-based insulation to thoughtfully upcycled details throughout. Altogether, the house is a calm and comfortable place built around texture and warmth. 

    Just outside there's plenty to wander. Besides the mosaic orchard patches, there's a small woodland, a pond with a little boat, a secret island for a romantic picnic with farm goodies and generally just many hedgerows and corridors in every nook and cranny of the landscape. The wider farm is also home to the host family, a friendly dog, many sheep, a few pigs, free-ranging chickens, and an abundance of wild animals that move through the landscape. 

    This is a real farm, not a staged retreat. There will be animals nearby, work happening on the land, and the ordinary signs of a landscape in use. Come take the beauty in.

    The farm shop is open on wednesdays from 16:00 untill 18:00 and on saturdays from 9:00 untill 13:00 and rumour has it there might be delicious cider to be found.

    Max Capacity

    4 Adults, 0 Child (Max guests: 4)

    Check-in and check-out time

    Check-in: 03:00 pm

    Check-out: 11:00 am

    On Site Ameneties
    Non Refundable
    Upcoming Project Hotel Project
    150,00 €
    0,00 €
    Total: 2 700,00 €

    Around Jon's 7-hectare orchard apples, pears, plums, peaches, berries and vegetables grow in a mosaic of orchards, small fields, hedgerows, wood edges and water. Sheep graze between the trees. Pigs and poultry help turn leftovers, fallen fruit and vegetation into fertility. The pond draws birds, bats and insects while weasels and other small hunters are welcomed through nest boxes and branch piles in the tree lines.

    This place blends:

    - agroforestry and mixed orchard systems
    - habitats for pollinators, bats, birds of prey and small predators
    - soil fertility and closed nutrient cycles
    - preserving old, native and resilient fruit varieties
    - local food production and short supply chains through the shared farm shop
    - and a low-impact visitor infrastructure


    In Flanders, farmland is expensive, scarce and often difficult for young ecological farmers to access. Through De Landgenoten Cooperative, the land beneath De Kleinaart is held in a way that protects its long-term agricultural and ecological purpose, while the ecosystem grows towards an equilibrium that's both producing and giving back in abundance.

    Jon and his land also hold a founding role in the GoHabitat story. It was the one physical place needed to help us access European Grant funding early on, to prove that regenerative travel should be more than an emerging trend and actually become a real structural support for those people taking care of our soil, water and biodiversity!

    So your stay here supports our first farm that demonstrates how organic land use can be a form of landscape care while being the new food system.

     

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    4
    0
    (Below 15 years)

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