Regenerative vacation and sustainability at Byaasgaard
Regenerative Vacation: We work with regenerative because we can't help it! For us, it's the only right way to go.
With the many guests we have visiting Byaasgaard during the season, we also want our initiatives to be visible so that they can inspire good solutions that our guests can take home or to work.
When we work with regenerative & sustainability, we split the work into a climate, a social, a cultural and an economic aspect. Of these, we are currently working mainly with the climate and of course the economic aspects, which make it all come together.
What is regenerative agriculture?
Regenerative Agriculture covers cultivation methods in agriculture, the purpose of which is to cultivate the soil more sustainable and gently, so that it is not exhausted, so that you create fertile and healthy soil - it is also about adding value and improving the area.
Some of the principles of the cultivation method:
The soil must be fed: Compost from plant residues and animal manure must provide natural nutrients to the soil, while avoiding artificial fertilizers.
The soil should be covered as much as possible: The soil should be kept covered year-round by using catch crops or winter crops in the fields.
The soil should not be disturbed: Ploughing and other processing by heavy machinery as well as chemical disturbance from, for example, pesticides or chemical fertilizers should be avoided.
Read more On the Microfarm at Byaasgaard
What is regenerative tourism?
While sustainability is about not deteriorating or harming the land/area, regenerative goes a step further and is about improving the area. That is, leaving the area in better condition than when you arrived.
After a sharp decline during the COVID-19 pandemic, global tourism has rebounded steadily, reaching pre-2020 levels in 2024, and growth is expected to continue.
But the great desire to travel has consequences. Increasing air traffic contributes to climate change and its serious consequences, while both local populations and nature in popular travel destinations are pressured by the waves of tourism.
Regenerative tourism is about using tourism as a lever to create positive change and contributions to local communities, the environment and the tourism industry.How does Byaasgaard work with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals?
We use the UN's world goals as a guideline and have selected four goals that we focus on in particular. See a selection of our initiatives here:
- We buy to a large extent locally and organically
- We do not use disposable plastic
- We tell our guests about our sustainable initiatives and how they can contribute
- We do not use pesticides
- We use Nordic Ecolabelled cleaning products
- We use water savers in all baths, toilets and sinks
- We only buy electricity from wind turbines
- We have replaced wood pellet stoves with heat pumps
- We buy white goods with an energy label and use only LED bulbs
- We plant Byaasgaard in order to create more biodiversity
- We take care of nature, to preserve the original
- We convert food waste into organic material
The social dream
In the long term, we have big dreams of working more purposefully with social sustainability by creating a working community at Byaasgaard that can offer work to people who have difficulty finding a foothold in the labor market.
Who is behind this?
Read more about who we are Click Here