We've lived here for years. Our twentieth winter in the Bystrzyckie Mountains is behind us. We've mastered snow removal to perfection, and we're constantly and persistently learning how to cultivate plants. We started ecotourism when modern hospitality, in harmony with nature, was unheard of. It's rural, but beautiful and top-notch. We started here with great enthusiasm right after graduating from art school. The walls in the apartments are decorated with our own drawings and prints, Krysia designed and made the two sinks, and a trained eye will notice that the fireplace matchboxes were designed by Kajetan. Our entire kitchen is also his idea. Seasonal, recipe-free, creative, vegetarian, and organic. Nasturtium and strawberry salad? Cream of baked pear with watercress? Just don't ask us about the menu! Only Kaj knows it when he's cooking. He's a crazy chef who built an underground greenhouse—a walipini—with his own hands, just to have greens available in the mountain climate year-round. And you know what? It works!

Krysia's art also encompasses workshops—bread-baking workshops, which can be held spontaneously, and ceramics and cosmetics workshops, which require planning well in advance. It's old Sudetes architecture surrounded by meadows and forests, wood, stone, and clay, old furniture, lying in a hammock in a plum orchard, and starry, mosquito-free nights. All this in a mountain clearing, 620 meters above sea level. There's always something going on here, rather leisurely, but uninterrupted. Art has already been the set for a feature-length film, a venue for art exhibitions, open-air workshops, and local community meetings. Everyday life here is also completely normal and relaxed. We bustle about so you can lie on your back, spend your days on the trails, skate down cross-country trails, admire the sandpipers, and close your books. Come check it out.

First you have to climb 620 meters above sea level, drive past our only neighbor 200 meters, and then you can not start your car engine for the entire holiday. We will welcome you in a quiet clearing with a view of the mountains without any signs of civilization.

Art is flesh and blood ecotourism. We live here, we work here, we grow up with our children, we relax here in the sauna, we grow fruit and vegetables here, we take care of our running ducks, we drink birch juice, we serve you meals, we organize workshops (on specific dates) and we give you breathing space. And there is something to breathe, because the air is as clean as crystal.

In artistic ecotourism, we have three apartments at our disposal, which we have been gradually building over the years.

The STUDIO is actually half of the house (over 80m2), with a separate entrance and a large terrace, intended for 4-7 people. So it will host a group of friends, a large family, but also casually two couples. The apartment is spacious, has two floors, lots of wood, plenty of light, finished with natural materials.

At the entry level:
- a spacious living room with a fireplace with a relaxation area with large glazing (2 comfortable sofas, 2 armchairs, a lot of free space on the floor for playing with children, dancing or yoga)
- equipped kitchen with a dining room for 10 people (connected to the living room). In the kitchen: four gas burners + fridge + sink + dishes + cutlery + pots + pans + glasses + glasses + coffee maker + cup blender)
-bathroom with shower and toilet
- additional toilet
- a stone terrace with a table, a sofa and three armchairs

At the attic level:
- lockable bedroom - larger 3 - 4 people (1 double bed 160 cm wide, 2 beds 90 cm wide, wardrobe, space for a travel cot - we provide it free of charge on request)
- lockable bedroom - smaller 2 - 3 people (2 beds with a width of 120 cm, a wardrobe, or we can also add a mattress for a child behind the adult bed)

The Studio Apartment is connected to central heating, in addition in the transition period you can smoke in   fireplace with heat accumulation function (casing made of fireclay plates). We give instructions on how to smoke in it, we provide wood.


LIVING ROOM is an independent apartment with a wooden terrace in the attic of the barn (for 2-5 people). It will be equally good for a romantic chillout for two as well as for a family trip out of town.

In Thessaloniki (40m2 + terrace) there is:
- living room with a fireplace, two handles, a rocking chair and a sofa with a sleeping function (futon 140 cm wide)
-kitchen (four hotplates induction + fridge with a small freezer + sink + dishes + cutlery + pots + pans + coffee maker)
-table with chairs for 4-5 people
- a bathroom with a shower cabin
- a closed bedroom with a double bed (width 180 cm, can be separated into 2 single beds), walls finished with ecological clay plasters
- on the mezzanine, 2 mattresses, 90 cm wide
- a wooden terrace (12m2) with two armchairs and a table

The living room is heated by a fireplace (we give detailed instructions and, of course, we provide wood), and in the morning in winter, the living space is heated by two radiant heaters. Clay walls warm the bedroom and kitchen, giving a pleasant Infrared warmth.


DZIUPLA is our smallest apartment (for 2-4 people) in the attic of the barn. We have here an insane view of the wildness, a spacious living room with a fireplace and a kitchen, clay plaster finishes, ecological paints, ceramics and old wood. There is also a bathroom like candy and a bedroom, and a mezzanine at heights secured with ropes for an older child/children.
The space is heated by a fireplace and pleasant Infrared heat from the walls.

In Dziupla (35m2 + balcony) there is:

- a living room with a fireplace, two armchairs and a coffee table, clay walls finished with ecological clay plasters, and the wooden floor is covered with ecological paint
-kitchen (two hotplates, induction + mini-bar fridge + sink + dishes + cutlery + pots + frying pan + coffee maker)
-table with chairs for 3-4 people
- a bathroom with a shower cabin
- a bedroom with a double bed (width 120 cm), walls finished with ecological clay plasters
- a mezzanine secured with ropes and 2 mattresses, each 90 cm wide
- wooden balcony (8m2) with two armchairs

If you like the kitchen the most from your own hands, you can roll up your sleeves and cook. If you rely on us, we only reign supreme in the original cuisine of Kaj - an artistic chef. Vege or vegan slowfood, always in BIO quality, from a permaculture vegetable garden and from a walipini, a greenhouse hidden in the ground. However, do not ask about the menu, because it is one big unknown, although with a guarantee of the highest quality of taste. There is no menu, no recipes, and you never know what will be. I mean, only the Boss knows. It is certain that it will be seasonal, varied and balanced. In winter we open preserves and silage, in summer we grab herbs, weeds, vegetables, fruit and mushrooms. In spring, we enrich our dishes with wild spring vegetables (young nettle, wild garlic, primrose and dandelion leaves). We serve homemade bread all year round - Lemko sourdough bread, spelled baguettes or pita bread. We do not use white sugar, wheat, gmo plants, preservatives and glutamate.

We cook for you from Thursday dinner to breakfast on Sunday for a minimum of 4 people. - that's why you need to arrange it with us in advance. On other days, we suggest where to eat tasty in the area. Please arrange in advance.

You can choose to:
- breakfast and dinner (vegetarian version),
- breakfast and dinner (vegan and / or gluten-free),
additionally:
- vegan dessert / dessert
- organic fair-trade coffee in the following versions: espresso, americano, cappuccino, macchiato, decaffeinated chicory root, with oat milk for baristas.

Each season of the year has its charm in the Bystrzyckie Mountains. This is how you live in a remote area - we are driven by seasonality and the laws of nature. In the summer, when the sun is warming, you can lie in a hammock in a plum orchard, eat blackberries, smell roses, admire the purple lupine, go for a hike to the Burned Pass, eat Orlice shavings in the Jagodna shelter or trout in the Osmelakowa Valley. In autumn, you can bury yourself in our Artist's cocoon. To stare - at the meadow, then at the fire in the fireplace, with breaks for the delicious dishes served from the Kaja's kitchen and (possible) walks in the wild bushes. Winter lasts a long time here, at an altitude of 620 m above sea level. the likelihood of meeting snow is greater than anywhere else. So you can prepare gloves for a change and prepare for the construction of an igloo, making XXL snowmen, crazy rides on tires and sleds (we borrow!). For skiers, there are great cross-country trails (groomed on Spalona 4 km above us or own ones - on the meadows near the house) and downhill runs in Zieleniec, Czarna Góra or on the Czech side. Spring is full of blooming apple trees, juicy greens outside, and asparagus on a plate. Throughout the year, but preferably in the cold months, it is worth warming up in an alder sauna, made by Kaj with bio cosmetics, made by Krysia.

It also happens artistically in Art, because of course it is otherwise. Here you will create your own design ceramic dishes and sculptures, run around the meadows collecting wild herbs, bake bread, dance for many hours, try the effects of ecological cosmetics, and even make your own cream! The calendar of our events is regularly updated (especially due to the viral reality), so when making a reservation you can ask if we are planning something. Our workshops are carefully planned events with specific dates. We have to prepare for them, buy materials, arrange care for kids, which is why they are organized only on designated dates.

From the march we can arrange bread baking workshops. We offer you a return to the taste and smell of real bread - healthy, ecological, nutritious. We will share with you our home recipe and old Lemko sourdough. You will learn how to prepare and bake bread yourself, to easily repeat this activity after returning home. We knead the bread in the morning after breakfast or in the evening after dinner, because the bread has to rise (about 10 hours) to the oven for more than an hour.

We also invite you to do nothing. For admiring wild nature, evening sessions with your head in the stars, listening to the rain, observing our duck gang, cat stroking therapy (our two cats do not scratch and plead with guests), admiring the phenomenon of inversion (i.e. the sun and fog in the valley). We never have mosquitoes (seriously!), But there is always silence, darkness of the night and peace.

We have two forest children, plus a flock of sandpipers, colorful chickens and two cats, so we don't know what boredom is. Ksawery and Rita will always find a stick to play with, a hill to sled down and stones to build fortifications, and if the wind is blowing their heads off and it's pouring rain, you can play board games. With us, the fun takes place offline, so if you don't drag your children into nature by force, but instinctively choose a village because you feel good there, that's good. We have a large area around us and we haven't fenced it off specifically. However, it is safe, because as far as the eye can see, there is wilderness. There is a tepee made of willow twigs and a playground with a large sandbox and stumps for jumping. You can run barefoot, you can swing in a hammock in the orchard, and when our children form a group, there is a chance to play together in a tree house. In the fall we listen to the songs of deer, in the morning mists we look out for roe deer and wild boars, and we spend our nights counting stars. As a bonus, I can organize workshops for young and old on making and baking bread. Just let me know that you are willing to do so.

If you feel comfortable with bare feet in a stream and during wild rose expeditions, drop by our house.