Plitvice Permaculture Retreat is a project of sustainable tourism based on the natural environment with accommodation of guests in comfortable wooden houses and tents.
I started the project after 15 years working in international corporations and having a stressful life in the Croatian capital. Three years ago, I found a property, abandoned for over 20 years, near one of the most beautiful national parks in the world (Plitvice Lakes), sold all my property, and set about building a Robinson camp on permaculture grounds. During this time, I was able to clear a large part of the property from the bushes, renovate the house, build three wooden guest houses and a sanitary facilities. I was learning about nature every day and trying to implement permaculture ideas.
By participating in this campaign, you have the opportunity to get to know one of the most beautiful parts of Croatia beyond the usual tourist routes, to surround yourself with unspoiled nature, learn about permaculture, to eat organic food and spend your evenings with a fire under the starry vault.
The project will start working in the May, regardless of the outcome of the campaign, but with your help the development will go much faster. If we do not raise the complete funds-goal and the payers will receive their reward anyway.
The first goal is to raise enough money to buy two home tents for accommodation. Tents have already been ordered and 10,000 EUR need to be collected to buy and equip them. The second objective is to purchase the additional 4 hectares of land required to create a complete estate with all the amenities it needs, for which an additional EUR 10,000 is needed. The third objective is to build a summer kitchen that will facilitate the preparation of food and allow you to socialize, which requires a sum of EUR 6,000. The fourth objective is two accommodation units on a tree in the form of a tent or a wooden house for which EUR 10,000 is required.
Since this is a lifelong project, the ideas are numerous and I cannot fit everything into this campaign, but with the achievement of some of the goals, the retreat will be able to self-finance and develop from its own income from tourism and organic food production. In the future we will have a zoo with domestic animals, natural swimming lake, 3-5 tree houses, food forest, educational forest walks, production of food, juices, brandies and other products from garden and forest plants.
Plitvice Lakes are located in an area of great interest to tourists from all over the world and provide accommodation to millions of guests in hotels, apartments, rooms and other wifi boxes separated from the beautiful nature that surrounds them. By building Plitvice Permaculture Retreat I wanted to enable tourists from all over the world to experience a different experience, to connect with nature in a new way without sacrificing comfort, to experience the untouched nature and peace that is impossible to find in the modern world, and to learn something about sustainable living . By supporting this project you are making this experience possible and helping to realize showcases that will show other tourism professionals that sustainable tourism in harmony with nature is possible and the way we should be going.
There is no risk if you participate in the campaign. The retreat is operational, three lodges have been built and already have guests (my AIRBNB profile), and two tents will be installed no later than early June. Each contributor will receive their reward and experience described, and probably more.
So if you plan to visit Croatia and Plitvice Lakes in the next two years, do not hesitate, support this project and get yourself an unforgettable experience or simply visit us, listen to our stories, spend time on the property, become volunteer and our friend and share our campaign with your friends . Everyone is welcome.