We are lucky enough to live and work in the hamlet of Eoulx, in the Alpes de Haute Provence, situated at an altitude of 1000 metres and 20 minutes from Castellane.

Located at the gateway to the Gorges du Verdon, we carry out our activity in a natural and protected area. The calm and the nature are present to allow you to spend a pleasant stay.

As our customers' comments show, we are a small, family-run business and we are happy to welcome you "as if you were at home", with friendliness and hospitality. We will be there to serve you and advise you on your escapades. We are local ambassadors, we love our region. We favour human contact and the sharing of experience. Your visits and discoveries will be a source of information that we will be happy to share and pass on.

Our cuisine respects the seasonal nature of the products; all our dishes are home-made.

We propose you to taste local specialities, from Provence, from the south: tapenade as an aperitif, Provençal daube as a dish...

For breakfast, you can taste our home-made jams that we make every year when the fruit is ripe.

Our 6 yurts are traditional dwellings, imported from Mongolia. They are installed on our camp all year round and are a great place to live. This construction is made of wood, cotton canvas, sheep's wool and a coated cotton canvas that makes it waterproof and breathable. These accommodations have little impact on the environment as they are built on a wooden floor. Most of the materials used are natural.

Less natural materials are used to resist over time, to cope with the very variable climate at 1000 metres altitude (wind, run-off, snow, sun).

See for yourself... Lost in the middle of the mountains with no drinking water network, we are 100% self-sufficient in water for all our activities. We were lucky enough to be able to tap into a mountain spring. To do this, we manage and maintain the 1500 meters of pipe to bring the water to our property. We fill a food tank that we have buried. We have built a technical room to install a water pump, a booster, a filtration system and a UV lamp.

This installation requires regular maintenance and monitoring. The difficulties encountered can be :

partial dryness of the spring, in which case we will fill a 1000-litre tank at our hamlet's fountain and pour it into our tank manually

freezing of the water network, in which case in winter we make sure that there is enough pressure to avoid the formation of ice on our network, in which case we wait patiently for the thaw.

Our water is analysed every year and is declared potable. We are very proud to have succeeded in this great project.

We are connected to the traditional electricity network and we have taken out a subscription with a green energy supplier "Ilek offers us energy from hydroelectric dams".

We have some beautiful dams to discover in our region.

Our main residence is powered by an air/water heat pump, which heats our house and our water.

We have launched the reflection of the project of electrical autonomy on the basis of our peak consumption in winter which is 36000 watt.

Study of the photovoltaic project: the studies propose us a self-consumption of the produced energy. The financial report is not yet interesting. We would have to invest more than 40,000 euros to produce only 40% of our energy needs.

We have managed to reduce the energy expenditure of our camp by installing thermostat plugs on the radiator plugs of the yurts (the radiator only switches on if the desired temperature is not reached). We have installed fan heaters in the sanitary facilities so that we don't have to leave a radiator running unnecessarily during the night and day. The fan heater heats up a bathroom quickly when in use.

We have installed dry toilets in all our rental accommodations to avoid wasting drinking water, thus saving water. Our spring water is precious. We use white paper (no dyes) and sawdust. We compost our toilets on our land. After more than a year of composting, we can recover this compost.

We still have room for improvement in this area. For reasons of hygiene, all our toilets are equipped with single-use plastic bags that are changed for each customer. Our toilets are made of wood.

As animal lovers, we have built a farm with recycled materials to house animals that we recover.

Goats that were destined for the slaughterhouse, recovered or kids abandoned by their mothers. Poultry has also been donated to us.

I am a beekeeper and we also do beekeeping education to explain to our customers the life of bees and the making of this good nectar "honey". We open our honey house to beekeepers who wish to collect their honey from us, without investing in their own equipment. We participate in the preservation of this species which is so important for the pollination of our fruits and vegetables.

Since the beginning of our adventure as owners of this 5 hectare plot of land, we have favoured the work of local craftsmen (earthworkers, plumbers, electricians...).

We have also set up knowledge sharing and mutual aid, and have opened participative workshops, here are some examples:

Our first website and logo were made by a network of friends. Many of them were able to help and advise us from a distance.

The construction of our current website is the meeting of a local actor, a young company "Cocotte web"; the meeting of Florence Bessada, living in Provence. We strongly advise you to use her services.

The sharing of knowledge and mutual aid is necessary when one launches out on the assembly or the maintenance of a traditional Mongolian habitat. We assemble and dismantle our yurts regularly to check the wooden structures (repair the joints), clean the canvas, repair them (sewing), maintain the traditional paintings, change the tarpaulins (cotton coating), repair the roof squares (gluing, sewing)... For 1 yurt we take 1 day with 6 people. We enjoy sharing with our volunteers our knowledge of this habitat which is open all year round and requires regular maintenance.

We learn a lot from others. All the maintenance work in our camp is the work of all those who agreed to help us: wood maintenance (pruning, selection of trees), painting of traditional woodwork, construction of the animal rescue project (construction of a mini-farm for the reception of animals...), learning how to look after the animals (taking care of them).