Heritage

Eumelia

Regenerative farm life in the Peloponnese

setting

Heritage

where

Gouves, Laconia, Greece

best season

Open year

ideal for

Farm Stay

( the feeling of it )

A farm that took in guests, rather than a hotel that bought a farm. You can tell within an hour which way round it happened.

( the story )

A biodynamic Slow Food farm in the Peloponnese with four stone guest houses, an ancient olive grove and a vineyard making natural wine.

Eumelia is a working biodynamic farm at Gouves in Laconia, run on permaculture principles and accredited as a Slow Food Farm. Guests stay in four self-contained houses — the Grape Vine, the Lavender, the Almond Tree, the Sunflower — each with a bedroom, a living room with a fireplace, a kitchen and a private garden and veranda. The land does the programming: olive oil tastings from the ancient grove, natural wine from the vineyard, farm-to-table cooking classes, soap making, daily harvests from the organic garden, and olive-harvest retreats in autumn where you join the picking. Hiking, biking, yoga and treatments fill the rest. The Guardian, National Geographic, the New York Times and Food & Wine have all written about it.

( field notes, dawn to night )

A day here

morning

Out with the harvest basket; whatever comes back is what lunch is going to be.

midday

Oil tasting under the old grove, learning what you have been eating wrong all these years.

afternoon

The vineyard, then cooking what you picked, badly and then better.

night

Fireplace in your own house, natural wine, no schedule to be late for.

( worth underlining )

What sets it apart

A biodynamic, permaculture farm in Laconia — an accredited Slow Food Farm

Four self-contained stone houses, each with fireplace, kitchen and private garden

An ancient olive grove and a vineyard making natural wine

Tastings, cooking classes and soap-making straight off the farm

Autumn olive-harvest retreats you can work in

Written up by the New York Times, National Geographic and the Guardian

What you can do

Farm Experiences

Olive Oil & Wine Tasting

Cooking Classes

Yoga & Wellness Treatments

Hiking & Biking

Retreat Hosting

On the property

Self-Contained Stone Houses

Biodynamic Farm

Ancient Olive Grove

Natural-Wine Vineyard

Organic Kitchen Garden

Private Gardens & Verandas

( plan your stay )

You go home understanding food as agriculture rather than as shopping.

Come at harvest. Bring your hands.

best time to visit — Open year-round. Come in October and November for the olive harvest, or spring for wildflowers and mild Laconian days.

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