Eumelia Organic Agrotourism Farm

We have the honor of welcoming you to our ancient olive grove and our beautiful herb fields which our family cultivates since the 1890's. The idea behind our agrotourism, ecotourism farm and guesthouse is to create a sustainable farming area and accommodation in southern Greece with the use of homeodynamic & biodynamic agriculture. During your farmhouse stay vacation you can take beautiful walks around our organic farm and pick fruits directly from our fruit trees, hop on a mountain bike and visit the surrounding hills and farms, work with us and pick olives and make olive oil, collect almonds, pick herbs and harvest and press grapes to make wine. During your rural holiday with us you can participate in local cuisine cooking and wine tasting courses, natural soap making workshop, learn to bake and make marmalades. Relax and let us take care of your culinary needs with vegetarian cuisine made with fresh vegetables from our organic garden. Read your book, enjoy a massage or paint the amazing Laconic Mountains, Parnonas and Taygetos. During your stay our fruit and vegetable gardens will be the base for the nourishment providing you with a full spectrum of organic products covering all your needs. Eumelia is located in the Peloponnese, in the prefecture of Laconia near the village of Gouves. A diverse holiday destination and region that includes a vast range of ancient sites, historical monuments, museums, beaches, and picturesque villages on the mountains or by the sea side. Situated near ancient and modern Sparta, Mystras, Monemvasia and the Mani region, we are the ideal base for your travels, explorations and participation in many ecotourism activities such as hiking, mountain biking and canoe/kayak. The Laconic Gulf between the two mountain ranges of Taygetos and Parnonas provide the area with an amazing variety of experiences from local cuisine, architecture, nature, scenery with alternating horizons and backgrounds. Our ecological cottages at the heart of the organic farm, as well as the other hotel facilities use environmentally-friendly material and have been designed to utilize nature's forces. We attach great importance to recycling and we employ many different recycling methods: water is recycled and then used for farming purposes, whereas compost is created from all the organic material at the farm, as well as from the hotel facilities. Built in the traditional Greek farmhouse architecture with modern elegance each of the houses has its own private garden and a large veranda with great view of the farm and the surrounding mountains Furthermore, the buildings are heated and cooled with geothermal power, using heat pumps to minimize the use of petroleum or electricity. Our standard-setting natural waste management, based on the root system, is the first of its kind in southern Greece. In the future, with the use of solar power, we hope to achieve one hundred percent self-sufficiency thereby creating an excellent example of sustainable development. We invite you to visit us on your way to another tourism destination to experience our sustainable farm and how it can influence your life. Our daily guests can learn about our ecological and green practices in our accommodations, participate in our agricultural activities, taste and purchase our organic products. We hope to see you soon at Eumelia In ancient Greek Eumelia means melody, melodious language The hotel is comprised of five individual houses, a main building that includes the reception area, our conference room, a dining room and a living room with a fire place. In the main building there is access to the internet and a library with books and board games. Outside there is a stone cellar that used to be a water reservoir from the 16th century and is now used to house our own wine barrels, our food and wine tasting area as well as our farm shop. Rates Price for (2) persons sharing a house: 100,00€ Family with up to (2) children under 12 years of age: 120,00€ Each extra person: 30,00€ Children under 2 years old, no extra cost Above rates are quoted in Euro include traditional Greek breakfast and all local taxes, VAT & service fees. The prices are per house and per day. Payment Policy We require deposit or prepayment by bank transfer or by credit card. The hotel reserves the right to pre-authorize credit cards prior to arrival. Cancellation Policy Cancellations made less than 14 days prior to the scheduled arrival time results to a cancellation fee of 50% of the total booking cost. Any cancellation within 2 days prior to arrival, no show or departure prior to the schedule date of departure, results in 100% loss of your booking cost. Check-in/Check-out Check-in Time: 14:00 Check-out Time: 12:00 Payment Methods Credit Cards Visa / Mastercard / American Express PayPal PayPal payments to our account using your PayPal account or your credit card through PayPal. Please request our PayPal account during your reservation. Bank Account Bank deposit or Bank transfer, please request our bank account details during your reservation. Agrotourism During your stay at our eco hotel or your daily visit to our organic farm you can participate in many of the agricultural activities taking place throughout the day. Feeding the animals in the farm, planting our organic vegetable and herb gardens, pruning our olive and almond trees or taking care of our grape vines. You can be part of our effort to create a sustainable organic farm and join us in bringing the vibrant agriculural land of Laconia closer to your heart. In September you can be part of the amazing experience of picking and pressing our organic grapes and seeing our effort to create our organic wine made from four Greek grape varieties, Agiorgitiko, Augoustiati, Athiri and Kidonitsa. In November we pick our organic Kalamata olives and cure them and in the middle of the month we begin to pick our olives which we press and create our golden organic olive oil.