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A restored 1800s farmhouse turned into a regenerative farm hotel. 🌿
Welcome to Son Blanc Farmhouse in Menorca.
🥬 Guests harvest ingredients for dinner
🍯 Bees, sheep, and chickens support the ecosystem
🫒 Olive oil pressed on-site
🌱 150 varieties of crops grown organically
Everything works together.
Chickens control pests.
Sheep fertilize the soil.
Bees pollinate the crops.
And nearly everything you eat comes from the land around you.
The goal: complete self-sufficiency.
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This Menorca farm hotel grows 150 varieties of produce where 90% of your meal comes from the estate, and guests harvest their own vegetables for dinner. This is San Rank Farmhouse, situated on a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Island. In 2016, Benedicta Linares Piaras and her husband, Benoit Pellegrini, discovered a derelict nineteenth century farmstead with panoramic sea views. Seven years of stone by stone restoration later, the farm cultivates a 150 varieties of fruits, vegetables, and herbs with strictly organic practices. 90% of the food on your plate comes from the best. Olive oil pressed from Saint Blanc's trees. Eggs from free range hens. Lamb from these hillsides. But guests don't just eat from the farm. You harvest your own vegetables for dinner. Press olives into oil. Learn beekeeping. Join farmers to gather eggs or pick vegetables from the vine. Hens, sheep, donkeys, and bees create a regenerative system. Chickens provide natural pest control. Sheep graze in rotational patterns. Bees pollinate crops and produce raw honey. Nine geothermal wells for heating and cooling save rank cooling save 70% energy compared to conventional hotels. Thick stone walls provide natural insulation. No air conditioning needed anywhere. The restaurant occupies the former cattle shed. Open kitchen, wood fired cooking. Daily menus change based on whatever is ripe that morning. The good? Total self sufficiency by 2030. Nearly all food and energy needs already met on-site. A farm hotel showing the pinnacle of slow food paradise. Would you stay at a working farm where you harvest your own dinner? Let me know in the comments and follow for more content like this.