ABOUT HEARTH HOME
You want your stay to make an impact. We offer short-term accommodations in thoughtfully designed spaces combining our warm hospitality and passion for the planet.
The backstory
Hearth Home started with 3 units in 2018 with a building called Ramsay Manor. This sparked our love of short term rental hosting. In 2020, we expanded into the community of Bridgeland (a building we call Scarlet Manor) with an additional 2 units. Now in 2023, we are expanding again with a larger project (called Hawthorn Eco-Retreats) on uncultivated multi-acre land in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
Having grown up in Nova Scotia, Nic’s east coast warmth shows up in the care and hospitality for each guest of Hearth Home. Since 2020, Sam has acquired an incredible knowledge base of plants and ecosystems. While he once had a distaste for dirt, Sam now has a gifted green thumb.
Together, we transformed our Ramsay Manor yards into food forests in 2020 and began incorporating permaculture principles in our hosting and properties. We want to see our environment, community, and ourselves to thrive. We are dreaming about ways of combining regenerative practices, short term rentals, alternative housing, design, sustainable food production, and local investment.
And that’s just the beginning...
OUR VISION
Regenerating natural abundance & belonging
OUR MISSION
Cultivating opportunities to experience unique habitats. Warm and thoughtful environments that invite connection with self, land, and community.
We hold the ethics of permaculture as core values in how we work. They are earth care, people care and fair share:
REGENERATIVE
(EARTH CARE)
We are ecologically minded, working on reducing negative impacts/waste and increasing a positive eco-impact. We cultivate and facilitate deep relationships to the land we’re entrusted.
BELONGING
(PEOPLE CARE)
We create and provide opportunities to access spaces that are safe, inclusive, loving, and create a warm feeling. We design spaces that facilitate a feeling of being at-home and at-ease.
RECIPROCITY
(FAIR SHARE)
We see our relationship with the land, guests, and community as one marked by mutual giving and receiving. We re-invest our time, energy, and resources in the local community, the land itself, the people, and the spaces.
We also lean on the principles of permaculture to inform our designs, actions and hosting. They are:
Observe and interact
Catch and store energy
Obtain a yield
Apply self-regulation and feedback
Use and value renewable resources and service
Produce no waste
Design from patterns to details
Integrate rather than segregate
Use small and slow solutions
Use and value diversity
Use edges and value the marginal
Creatively use and respond to change
MORE ABOUT PERMACULTURE
Overview: https://vergepermaculture.ca/what-is-permaculture/
Ethics: https://permacultureprinciples.com/ethics/
Principles: https://permacultureprinciples.com/permaculture-principles/
THE GUESTBOOK
