In love and cosyEnjoying nature...
OUT OF LOVE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.
SUSTAINABILITY IN ACTION
Yes, we are beautiful - inside and out - you could just melt away. Our gorgeous garden with the water lily pond and the pavilion begins on our wonderfully romantic terrace - right outside our door. The scent of lavender and lush roses wafts through every corner in summer, with cosy lounge furniture and garden loungers in between, where you can sip an aperitif in deep relaxation, toast to life with a sparkling bottle, spoon up a sundae and celebrate your time together.
When the good life amidst nature becomes so simple… It hardly gets more authentic, does it?
By the way...
A few sheep graze behind our walls during the summer, and our 20 chickens lay their colourful breakfast eggs in the garden enclosure...
And highly recommended: a visit, even in a bathrobe, to Thomas' 100-herb garden, with numerous well-known and often still unknown herbs! Yes, you will feel this love of detail and nature on your plate.
Let's also talk briefly about ENERGY...
We work with wood chips from our own and neighbouring forests in our own wood chip plant, also behind the house. Our solar system was expanded in 2020 with a 75kWp photovoltaic system, whose current production you can also view in the house...
At the centre: BEING HUMAN.
We like to talk about the environment and sustainability, but what our hosts sometimes miss out on is talking about "being more human". Eva-Maria becomes noticeably emotional when she says: "People need to be at the centre of our economy (and politics, society, etc.) again...". She is convinced that we would then not have many problems at all...
One hundred varieties of fresh herbs...
We need lots of herbs for our kitchen. In addition to the eight raised beds, which every guest at the Bergergut can easily find, we have also cultivated a few field beds around our house. We have also cultivated wild watercress so that our hosts don't have to keep running down to the stream to find it. That worked out quite well and we then took heart and brought the wild garlic home too. We cut out large soil bricks with this wild garlic plant from the Danube floodplains and carefully planted them in our garden. Of course, this was only possible because we asked the forest owner.
This is how we are gradually increasing the stock of fresh herbs at the Bergergut. There are now around a hundred varieties growing in our 100-herb garden.