Eco-Farm With Cottages In Organic Olive Grove

Permaculture eco-farm with 9 houses for sale on huge off-grid property for natural living, on unique organic farm of 24ha.

The finca is located in a beautiful, rural valley nestling between the Rio Chico and the Rio Seco. It’s only an hour’s drive to Granada and just a few minutes away from Orgiva, which is the capital town of the West Alpujarras and next to the natural park Sierra Nevada. The finca sits at 650 metres in a fertile area and has a milder climate than many other places in the Alpujarras. In the surroundings you will find plenty of olive, lemon and orange groves. Orgiva is a very cosmopolitan town, with many nationalities living together, different organic shops, a weekly market and various courses, workshops, retreats and festivals all year long. The finca itself is in a very quiet location, without any direct neighbours and far away from any traffic pollution. The farm has the following features:

• 3 united farms with their respective deeds 9 self-sufficient houses (restored/built with natural materials); 4 of which are fully legalized, 2 of the houses are eco holiday rentals on Airbnb

• Every house has it’s solar system (12v or 220v,), woodburning stove, compost toilet and most of them a private shower

• 4 houses have mains water from Bayacas.

• There is a 7m diameter yurt with a wooden floor and a circular skylight window in the roof, covered outside kitchen and workspace.

• The finca has irrigation water from the Bayacas irrigation channel (acequia) and a stream that runs through the farm 2/3 albercas (water reservoirs of 7mx3m, 8mx3m)

• A natural pool with an astonishing view of the surrounding mountains (approx 15m diameter)

• More than 700 big, productive olive trees and around 100 fruit and nut trees (including avocado, apple, plum, peach, nectarine, nispero, kaki, lemon, orange, almond,…) 20 years with an organic certificate

• 2 small greenhouses and 1 polytunnel

• Several vegetable gardens of aprox 1h in production

• sauna

• storage sheds & workshop

• chicken coops

• …

It is a very quiet place, without neighbours or noise, ideal for setting up a yoga centre, retreats, workshops, ecological accommodation or cultivating the majestic centuries-old olive trees and selling the high-quality oil they produce. They all have dry toilets and one of the rental houses also has a wet toilet. All the houses have photovoltaic electricity systems and 5 of the houses have solar hot water systems. The farm has the permit for vehicle access in process.