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Welcome to La Colline
aux bleuets
We, the owners, are pleased to
offer people who spend a few days – or even a
few moments-- at La Colline aux bleuets, an experience
of peace, serenity and appreciation of nature. We wish
to share with our visitors the privilege we enjoy of
living in this place “blessed by the gods”.
Our prices are very reasonable. In return, we ask people
who come to our place to respect the property, and share
in preserving its beauty.
Our Vision
La Colline aux bleuets, a small enterprise
with a blueberry farm and a Bed & Breakfast, offers
its guests different means of enhancing their physical,
mental and spiritual well-being.
Our Values
- Showing integrity in all aspects of our business
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- Being sensitive to all living creatures and to
the environment ;
- Encouraging the expression of beauty and creativity.
Our Strategies
- Blueberry farming without any herbicides or pesticides
- A particularly well-tended site to pick your own blueberries
- An ecologically managed forest
- A residence built according to healthy housing
principles
- A comfortable and artistic interior
- Healthy meals, prepared according to a mainly
vegetarian cuisine
- Welcoming participants to ECODA's retreats and workshops.
History and
Background of La Colline aux bleuets
La Colline aux bleuets is located
on a piece of land that, for one hundred years, belonged
to the Beattie family whose name was given to the road
where the farm is situated. Originally, the Beattie’s
enterprise was a dairy and a sugar bush farm. In 1959,
the land was divided and sold by plots. The 66 acres
of pasture and forest as well as the barn were separated
from the ancestral stone house. The barn, erected in
1929, was transformed into a home by the new owners
of this plot of land. As a residence, the barn underwent
many transformations and became a friendly
Bed & Breakfast for travellers and hunters as, during the 1990's, the Cloutier family started a hunting operation. The family also started the blueberry plantation .
In the year 2000, the present owners
purchased the property. Unfortunately, only a few weeks
after the sale, the very charming “barn-house”
burned to the ground. We had to rebuild. From the ashes
rose a house built according to ecological principles,
which continues its vocation as a Bed & Breakfast.
The architecture of the new house is such that it seems
to have been part of the landscape forever. The blueberry
farm continues but not the hunting operation.
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