If you have heard about wild agro in Mazovia, a stone's throw from Bug, it could have been about us. On 5 hectares, we have animals that we care for and who give us the best they have. We drink pine shoots syrup, eat everything pickled, boil weeds, make baths in spring backwaters and naturally visit us. Once in one, now in three houses. We live in the largest one, we also serve breakfasts and dinners there and we share rooms with guests. The house by the road is our newest purchase, but this time we invite you to the Bańczyk House.

Do you know who a bubble is? This is a person who deals with the procedures in the Russian banya. A magician who creates a performance in clouds of steam. He knows how to use wreaths to whip (oak or birch twigs), knows how to drive the air, when to cool it, when to turn up the temperature. Our bubble is Bartłomiej - a host who has visited many Russian bananas while traveling to the east and is able to relax everyone. The cottage was created from an old, over a hundred-year-old granary, which we moved from a nearby farm. We adapted the body to the appearance of a large house, modestly but comfortable and here it is. We call it "dwarf's house" because it is compact and very cozy. There is space for 3 people, sauna, hot tub, but no kitchen. For breakfasts and creative dinners, we invite you to us, next door. Come on in, we are waiting.

There are three beds in the attic of the house, the beds can be configured in any configuration - one double and one single, or three singles. Downstairs there is a tiny living room with a fireplace and a bathroom with a shower with a low ceiling.

In the lounge you will find fruit, a kettle, coffee and tea. There are quite steep, but short stairs leading from the bottom to the top. On the ground floor there is also a room with a Russian banya, i.e. a wet sauna. And that's where the name of the house comes from. We invite you to visit the bubbles all year round. Don't be afraid, in winter you will be warm thanks to the fireplace, which perfectly heats both the attic and the ground floor. Just in case, there is also an electric heater at your disposal.

The house itself is small, but it has two large terraces, one at the top, the other just below it at the bottom. We tried to arrange the one downstairs like an extra room, with a wooden bed, rugs, a hammock, a table and chairs. From the upper one there is a beautiful view of the entire area, which you can admire while lounging on the deckchairs.

From the upper terrace there is a passage to a platform in the treetop, beautifully lit after dark

Important - there is no kitchen in the cottage, so you are "reliant" on our menu. But you can rest assured, cooking is our specialty. Meals are served in the main house, right next door. However, if you want to spend time alone, we can bring you breakfasts and dinners.

Adjacent to the Bańczyk House is a corner with an outdoor, heated bathing barrel. This space is independent of the cottage and can also be rented by other guests, but only with respect for your rest and peace. Residents of the Bańczyk house always have priority to rent it. The use of the barrel and the Russian banya located inside the house is subject to an additional fee.

In addition to the terraces at your disposal, you can also use the garden located between the houses together with the residents of the main house with guest rooms, located next to it, or run barefoot in our meadows and fields around our farm.

Latosowo is an intimate settlement with three houses to which we invite our guests. If you are curious about the rest, take a look:
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There is no kitchen in the Bańczyka House, there is no possibility of preparing your own meals, so we invite you to our table.
You must know that we like to eat delicious food, experiment in the kitchen, reach for good quality products. Many of them come from our farm, so you can expect interesting and unusual dishes on the table. So far, no one has complained and everyone has praised ;)

For breakfast, which we serve at the "human" hour, which is usually at 10:00 but not earlier than 9:00, you can expect homemade rennet cheeses, including goat cheese made by the hostess from milk from her own goats, honey from her own hives, jams from our pantry, homemade cold cuts, vegetables, salads, spreads, pickles, bread from the local bakery, yellow cheese from the local dairy. There is also always something warm from colorful eggs from the happiest hens from our henhouse. We also serve herbal infusions from dried herbs, which we prepare ourselves by picking flowers and herbs in season. And coffee? Of course! We grind good quality beans ourselves and brew it in a coffee pot, so even a small amount will get you up on your feet in the morning. We will serve it with goat's milk (don't worry, our milk does not smell "goat", we guarantee ;).

What can you expect in the evening, i.e. 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM? We will treat you to soup, a main course with two starters and dessert. In addition, a jug of homemade compote, lemonade or bzówka. We will not describe the entire range of dishes that end up on the table, there are many of them, and more are still appearing. Examples include nettle soup with egg and sweet cream, soup made from homemade pickled squash, cauliflower or carrots, homemade broth from a country hen with vegetables and meat, or fakes, a Greek soup made from carrots, lentils, onions and tomatoes. There is also a soup made from common borscht, an old Polish soup that has been forgotten and awarded at the International Taste Competition in Liw. Of course, we can also make a classic tomato soup, żurek soup or cucumber soup, but we can spice them up a bit by making duck stock, adding homemade puree, our own vegetables or unusual spices. For the main course, we can recommend a farm duck with ginger in apples, thyme rabbit in cabbage and tomatoes, baked trout from nearby ponds or beef steaks or rump steaks.

For dessert, we will serve you a fluffy, homemade cheesecake with a creamy, cardamom topping and a blot of damask rose petal jam from the house, or a cup full of fruit accompanied by mascarpone cream with a bit of halva or a juicy orange cake.

You can also order special dishes from us, a bit more expensive, but we guarantee that you won't eat them anywhere else. These include, for example, young kid (often milky) in sweet onion and cumin, which regular guests always ask for when they return to our doors, nutria in vegetables, snail soup or... May beetle soup. It may sound shocking, but it has a very old pedigree and, contrary to appearances, it tastes good ;)

We also have to mention a few words about edible weeds. Living in the countryside, where there are plenty of natural, unpolluted things growing around, we started to delve into the knowledge of their culinary use. In the season, you can count on tasting young hop shoots in butter and homemade breadcrumbs, weed salad with a dressing based on, among others, spruce shoot syrup, yellowtail stew or stewed chickweed.

We also remember about herbivores, let us know and we will prepare vegetarian or vegan dishes, for example, we will make kaszotto from white buckwheat with the addition of mushrooms and vegetables and herbs, goulash from peas, potatoes and peppers or stuffed zucchini from the garden.

Due to other duties, we serve breakfast and dinner, but if it turns out that you would like to have a snack during the day, we are open. Just let us know well in advance, preferably at morning breakfast, and we will cook something at noon. In the house you will find a list of additional, sample dishes along with their prices.

In Latosowo you can relax in various ways and spend your time the way you like. For those who, after the intense adventures of life in a constant rush, expect ordinary, lazy doing nothing, we have a garden with hammocks, garden furniture, deckchairs, blankets and living willow structures. You can read a book from our library there or take a nap listening to the sound of the wind and birdsong. If you feel like wandering a little further from the house (5 minutes on foot), we will tell you where we have prepared a beautiful clearing by the forest in the middle of "nowhere", ideal for a picnic in solitude. Fifteen steps from it, in our meadow, you will find a pond with a tiny, alder island in the middle.
On cold days, you can do nothing by the fireplace in the Bańczyk House or in the main room of the House with guest rooms, which will also be at your disposal if only no one rents this house exclusively. You can lounge there by the warm, tiled wall next to the fireplace, listen to music from vinyl records in a comfortable armchair, or "smash" cards or play other board games with friends.

Additionally, you can soak in a hot, outdoor bathing barrel, which is right next door (we arrange its rental in advance) or bask in the Russian bath located in the cottage.

A mandatory program for guests is usually... learning to walk on stilts. We have stilts designed by the host's father, who was a "designer", for both adults and children. We don't know which age group enjoys it more.

If you prefer to spend your time with us more actively, we suggest wandering around the area on foot or by bike, of which we have several at your disposal. On our 15 hectares there is no shortage of forests, meadows, and charming nooks. A little further, a few kilometres from us, begins the Nadbużański Landscape Park, and a dozen or so kilometres from us flows the wild Bug River. It is worth going there, we will guide you to beautiful places or organise a trip for you with our transport.

We can also accompany you on an additional nature walk prepared by us, we will show you the nearby town of Badger, fox holes, the place of "brushing" and bathing of wild boars that are not on Google maps, we will look for a woodpecker's forge together. If the weather is good and there is no mud, we may find tracks of elks, roe deer, badgers or beavers.

We can also organise WEED WORKSHOPS for you from spring to summer: we will teach you how to recognise edible, wild herbs, we will collect the crops, and then we will cook a tasting treat together.
Our absolute hit is the CARPENTRY WORKSHOP, during which our guests choose the type of wood and, under the supervision of the host, make a beautiful board according to their own idea for serving dishes or as a stand.

Our latest proposal is a RIDE ON AN ELECTRIC MOTORBIKE by Surrron. These are fully ecological, emission-free, cross bikes that cope great in more difficult terrain. Perfect for admiring nature without interfering with it too much, we recommend a ride on forest paths or on the Bug River roads.

We will be happy to invite you for a RIDE on a historic, horse-drawn fire truck, pulled by a tractor or a ladder truck. We also have a ready-to-go historic Żuk (also a fire truck, from a nearby fire station) - a trip on it through fields and meadows is quite an experience.

We will show you around our farm, introduce you to goats, rabbits, nutrias, introduce you to Romeka and Mańka, our horses, and in the season you can help us with haymaking.

There are two stud farms in our area, where you can sign up for riding. One is behind the forest, 20 minutes on foot, 5 minutes by car from us, the other a bit further, a dozen or so kilometers, 15 minutes by car.
In the nearby town of Kosów Lacki (5 km from us) there is the only salt graduation tower in the region.

We cordially invite adults and possibly older teenagers