Cooking School & regenerative permaculture farm. We run classes for 2-14. On arrival a tour of our property to visit pigs on pasture, summer berries, heritage hens, passive solar home, & kitchen gardens. We provide fresh eggs, bread, milk, coffee & seasonal herbs from our garden. Our beautiful wetland is perfect for swimming, fishing, reading a book. LGBTQI welcome! Book both listings: Orto One & Orto Two for a group of 4 . I look forward to meeting you. Arrivederci! Mara The Orto One cottage is separate to the main farm house we live in and is immediately adjacent to it. The bedroom faces east and receives beautiful morning sun. It has a woollen rug, wonderful mid century furniture and an en suite. It is spacious with heating & cooling & with views of Mount Franklin. The intimate bathroom receives chlorine free water from our rainwater tank or bore. The communal kitchen/living room is accessed by exiting the bedroom and walking outside an undercover walkway. I use the word communal because Orto Two has access to it. If Orto One and Orto Two are booked by different people not travelling together and both guests are interested in using the kitchen then the kitchen becomes a shared space. We wanted to foster a shared space because when we were in Italy we stayed in an agri-turismo villa with the same set up and we really loved it. The walkway between the bedroom and kitchen is undercover and protected by a beautiful wooden facade with gorgeous plants weaving through it. Our winters are cold hence bring warm clothes, scarves/hats & slippers. The kitchen has been lovingly furnished with found objects and furniture from vintage stores in our area. There is an oven and gas cook top, fridge, toaster, kettle and wood fired stove for heating with all firewood supplied. A prairie/bee garden adorns the west and to the north the kitchen garden. We have planted thousands of young trees, wild flowers and native grasses. There are four of us permanently living on the farm, myself and Ralf and our two girls Ahlia and Artemisia. We also often host international volunteer guests who offer us help on the farm in exchange for a home. Our home and garden design is based on permaculture principles and we like to make and grow as much of our own food as possible. I am almost always in the kitchen baking, fermenting, making yoghurt, preserving, making soap, or cleaning foraged fruits and seeds, or in the garden, watering, planting, sowing seeds in trays and choosing what seeds to order for the new season. I work full time on the property. I am fluent in Italian and Ralf in German. To find out what we are up to most days please find us on I n s t a g r a m @maravillagedreaming or please search for Village Dreaming as it will give you a very good idea of who we are and the many projects we are passionately cultivating. We are a non-smoking property, and that applies to every bit of our property. We also encourage you to have waste-free meals while here and to take responsibility for the waste you produce by taking the waste you create home with you, with the exception of compostables: we provide a compost bin. We provide a bin in the bathroom as well because that is necessary. If you wish to eat in, there is almost always something to harvest from the garden in summer. In winter, however, we grow soil not vegetables. We really look forward to sharing our story with you and hearing yours. We love having guests!