Sustainability

Sustainability is at the heart of what we do. We choose to have sustainable practices in the following ways:

  • Adaptive re-use of the historic Slate Hill Meeting House (1830’s) also know as the Slate Hill Baptist Church (1868-2017)

  • Organic and sustainable land practices. This means no pesticides or chemical fertilizers of any kind, water conservation, and sustainable permaculture based land management.

  • Electric car charging is available for guests with EV’s (level 2 charger).

  • Native plants are a personal passion of ours. They are great for wild pollinators, well adapted to our climate, and are kinder to mother nature.

  • We hope to get solar power. More on this after construction.

Plants & flowers we need:

yucca root (solid green), camilla (white or dark red flowers), ninebark (physocarpus opulifolius), climbing rose, peony bulbs, tulip bulbs, spike speedwell (vernoica spicata), evergreen wood fern (dryopteris intermedia), ginko trees (male only), apple trees, any native wildflowers and herbs that can handle normal to dry conditions. Click here for a native Virginia plant list.