Presentation of our Eco. Project Mas de la Fargassa. CAMPING A LA FERME - GÎTES
Our old Catalan mas: Mas de la Fargassa is located on 60 ha of land, in the Pyrenean mountains at 600 meters hight, alongside an ever-flowing mountain river. It consist of a main building with a proffecional kitchen, 5 gites, 2 apartments, a wooden chalet and a Bergerie.
We Have a smallscale organic fruitfarm of 1O Ha, cultivated with different fruittrees and fruitplants; apple, pear, plum and cherry trees, strawberry, gooseberry, raspberry, myrtille, cassis, red and white currant and elderberry's and we grow biological vegetables.
Beside of these 10 Ha, we have many walnut-, chestnut- and hazelnuttrees on our land and some chickens for bio-eggs.
We have our own Biological Jammery.
We sell our products on the local market, at a coöperative of local biological farmers, home sale and to our tourists.
We living in harmony with nature, are located in a protected natureal area and we take care of our environment. We ensure that the old farmers destination from before the 2nd worldwar of the Mas is maintained .
Beside that, we have developped agro- touristic activities, a campsite a la ferme and Gites / Chambre d' hotes, ((www.lafargassa.com)
Also the long distance foodpath, the GR10 crosses our land and we offer the hikers shelter and food. On Fargassa we try to create nature and ecological consciousnesse with our tourists and helpers and try to involve them in our ecologic farming acivities.
We want to invest in expanding our organic fruit, nut and vegetable plantations.
Keeping bees, and start drying our fruits.
Invest in expanding ecological tourism, create more ecological workshops in spring and autumn, investing our energie in exchanging projects and nature education.
We think it is very important to invest in sustainable development, use more renewable energy, create an energy neutral living and invest in solar energie.
Full of energie and enthousiasme we will continue our beautifull project !!
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