GIRRAGIRRA RETREAT
Contemporary Eco FarmhouseGIRRAGIRRA RETREAT
Contemporary Eco Farmhouse
FEATURES
Two bedrooms: Sleep two in each – choose king or king singles. Add a roll away or two. A complimentary cot is available.
Enjoy luxury linens and bathrobes – washed in rainwater, dried in sunshine.
Two bathrooms: En – suite, one with a bath overlooking the waterhole. Toiletries included.
Living area: Modern, open plan with a wood heater. Huge north facing windows connecting you to wildlife beyond – or the moon as it tracks across the sky.
Enjoy comfy couches; wood fired heater; wireless speaker; smart TV; free Netflix
Kitchen: Fully equipped, invites you to self- cater.
Complimentary breakfast pantry: Generously stocked with breakfast provisions including pastured eggs, sourdough warm from the oven, cereals, Girragirra’s house made muesli, yoghurt, milk, butter, house made jams, seasonal fruit, filtered rain water, teas, coffee machine and freshly ground coffee, Gibson’s Grove olive oil, grinder salt and pepper, sugar and flour.
Private guest courtyard: Outdoor dining setting, gas barbecue / fire pit – invites you to dine out under a starry western sky.
Permaculture food garden: Wander, pick something to eat, pat Pete the dog, say hello to the ducks – slow down.
NBN Wi-Fi, evaporative cooling, fans, wood heater, private laundry and private undercover parking complete this beautiful accommodation.
WORKSHOPS
Sourdough Workshops
Have you ever wanted to learn how to make and bake a loaf of beautiful, health giving sourdough bread?
Classes are limited to ten people so you get to make a loaf with your own sticky little fingers, from start to finish….and watch it grow and develop before your eyes!
Wendy will guide you through the process with lots of hands on practice and a complete set of notes to take home along with your own loaf to bake next morning.
This is a full day workshop starting with a delicious morning tea on arrival at 10am for a 10.30 start and a generous lunch featuring goodies we make right here at Girragirra. Finishes around 4 pm
Cost: $220
Current dates for 2023: All classes limited to ten people.
March Sunday 12 Sold out.
October Saturday 28 4 places available book here
To to be placed on a wait list, please enquire below.
Farmhouse Cheese and Ferments
Learn how to make some simple cheeses and your own health giving probiotic fermented (cultured) foods including milk based ferments like kefir, yoghurt, cultured butter as well as fabulous vegetable ferments like kimchi, kraut and probiotic drinks like kombucha. Workshops are limited to ten people so you get lots of opportunities to be hands on and ask questions.
You’ll have a lot of fun and leave with:
hands on experience
a comprehensive set of notes
your very own cheese pet (kefir grain) and kombucha pellicle
loads of ferments you have made on the day to take home and enjoy.
A Girragirra style morning tea and lunch in your tummy featuring all the goodies you will make on the day.
This is a full day workshop starting with a delicious morning tea on arrival at 10am for a 10.30 start getting hands on with all things milk, a break for lunch around 12.30 featuring all the goodies you will make on the day and a wander around our permaculture food garden then an afternoon discovering the basics of probiotic drinks and veggie ferments finishing around 4.30 pm.
Cost: Inclusive of morning tea and lunch is $220
Dates for 2023: All classes limited to ten people:
March Saturday 11 sold out.
October Sunday 29 6 places available
ACTIVITIES
Visit the gorgeous town of Forbes. Built on the flood plain of the Lachlan River, Forbes is picturesque year round and an absolute oasis in our hot western summers. It’s a town steeped in the history of the 1800’s gold rush, wild and woolly bush rangers and of course farming of every description. Add to this a gorgeous little boutique shopping centre and a championship Golf course.
For the nature lovers, the River is a huge draw card for fishing, canoeing or just sitting back and watching the many birds and the odd human that call it home. Gum Swamp Bird Hide is birdwatcher heaven – just four km out of town and, ahem, only a 3km return stroll from Girragirra. It’s possible to observe over 60 species of birds in just a few hours with a number listed as threatened or endangered.
Head 30 minutes north and visit Parkes, where you’ll find the CSIRO radio telescope, famous world wide for beaming back images of man’s first steps on the moon. Affectionately known as The Dish, it was the star of the best Australian movie ever called strangely enough “The Dish”.
ENVIRONMENT
From the Owners:
“With a whopping 10KW tracking solar array sitting out there in the paddock, quietly doing its energy creating thing, it’s pretty obvious that we’re fans of renewable energy.
These panels create around 24,000 KW of clean green energy a year – enough to run 3 or 4 Girragirras. We feed that power into the grid and buy back what we need, though with the current buzz around battery storage we may be able to store rather than buy, while still sharing our excess via the grid.
Setting the solar panels up to track the path of the sun across the sky delivers around a 30% increase in total power generated and it’s interesting to watch the incremental moves of these giant 3m by 4.5m arrays if you happen to be nearby, doing a bit of fencing or chook wrangling or day dreaming.
Then there’s the solar hydronic hot water and underfloor heating system, plus an Electric Car Charger.”
What we love…
Girragirra is all about the passion of the amazing owners, Wendy and Kim, who are fourth generation farmers. With a genuine dedication to sustainable living and regenerative farming, they invite you to share their luxury eco-accommodation, organic food garden, workshops and regenerative farming techniques at Girragirra.
Tell me more
There are so many reasons to stay at Girragirra. Sign up for a sourdough or cheese workshop, settle back into the farmhouse lifestyle, or use your delightful accommodation as a base to explore all that the beautiful little river town of Forbes and the wider Central West has to offer.
Get the Facts
Where is it? Near Forbes, NSW
What? Contemporary eco farmhouse
Style of Accommodation? Self contained two bedroom cottage.
Who? Singles, couples or families.
Accessible? Please enquire
Minimum Night Stay? Yes – two nights
How much? Exclusive use of the Retreat with one bedroom and ensuite. Sleeps 2: $249. Exclusive use of the Retreat with two bedrooms and ensuites. Sleeps 4: $349. Up to 2 rollaways may be added to sleep 6
Rollaway: $30 pn
Sounding Good? Read on…
Girragirra is just five minutes from the Central West NSW river town of Forbes.
A luxury experience in contemporary “green living”, the solar passive farmhouse was designed by multi award winning architect, Tone Wheeler. Relax into accommodation that is private, self contained and perfectly perched over a waterhole on a 50 acre organic farm where you’re free to pick and eat from the extensive permaculture food garden.
A stay at Girragirra is a way to experience the comfort, ease and grounded feeling that comes with living sustainably. Head out into the permaculture food garden and pick some veggies for dinner, or visit the chooks and collect your breakie eggs. Ponder the benefits of solar passive design and the intrinsic beauty of recycled materials. Or check out the solar panels and the tank bling. As the owner says: “Everybody needs a bit of tank bling!”
Girragirra is a short walk from the Gum Swamp and Birdhide – a wetland teeming with birdlife and 4 new bird hides.
Gum Swamp is also home to Varanus, the first sculpture on the world class monumental sculpture trail between Forbes and Condobolin so we’re great place to begin a tour of Sculpture Down the Lachlan, a permanent, inland public art trail stretching 100 kilometres between Forbes and Condobolin, along the meandering Lachlan River featuring twenty sculptures by some of Australia’s leading creatives.
Click on the “Features” tab for more details about your stay at Girragirra.
Hosts: Wendy and Kim
Address: 180 Warrul Road, Forbes NSW
PRICE RATE POLICY
Green Getaways does not add any service fees to your stay, saving you those hard earned dollars to use to support businesses in the local area of your stay. Plus, every enquiry and booking through GREEN GETAWAYS AUSTRALIA shows your support for the fab environmental initiatives undertaken by this property.
FEATURES
Two bedrooms: Sleep two in each – choose king or king singles. Add a roll away or two. A complimentary cot is available.
Enjoy luxury linens and bathrobes – washed in rainwater, dried in sunshine.
Two bathrooms: En – suite, one with a bath overlooking the waterhole. Toiletries included.
Living area: Modern, open plan with a wood heater. Huge north facing windows connecting you to wildlife beyond – or the moon as it tracks across the sky.
Enjoy comfy couches; wood fired heater; wireless speaker; smart TV; free Netflix
Kitchen: Fully equipped, invites you to self- cater.
Complimentary breakfast pantry: Generously stocked with breakfast provisions including pastured eggs, sourdough warm from the oven, cereals, Girragirra’s house made muesli, yoghurt, milk, butter, house made jams, seasonal fruit, filtered rain water, teas, coffee machine and freshly ground coffee, Gibson’s Grove olive oil, grinder salt and pepper, sugar and flour.
Private guest courtyard: Outdoor dining setting, gas barbecue / fire pit – invites you to dine out under a starry western sky.
Permaculture food garden: Wander, pick something to eat, pat Pete the dog, say hello to the ducks – slow down.
NBN Wi-Fi, evaporative cooling, fans, wood heater, private laundry and private undercover parking complete this beautiful accommodation.
WORKSHOPS
Sourdough Workshops
Have you ever wanted to learn how to make and bake a loaf of beautiful, health giving sourdough bread?
Classes are limited to ten people so you get to make a loaf with your own sticky little fingers, from start to finish….and watch it grow and develop before your eyes!
Wendy will guide you through the process with lots of hands on practice and a complete set of notes to take home along with your own loaf to bake next morning.
This is a full day workshop starting with a delicious morning tea on arrival at 10am for a 10.30 start and a generous lunch featuring goodies we make right here at Girragirra. Finishes around 4 pm
Cost: $220
Current dates for 2023: All classes limited to ten people.
March Sunday 12 Sold out.
October Saturday 28 4 places available book here
To to be placed on a wait list, please enquire below.
Farmhouse Cheese and Ferments
Learn how to make some simple cheeses and your own health giving probiotic fermented (cultured) foods including milk based ferments like kefir, yoghurt, cultured butter as well as fabulous vegetable ferments like kimchi, kraut and probiotic drinks like kombucha. Workshops are limited to ten people so you get lots of opportunities to be hands on and ask questions.
You’ll have a lot of fun and leave with:
hands on experience
a comprehensive set of notes
your very own cheese pet (kefir grain) and kombucha pellicle
loads of ferments you have made on the day to take home and enjoy.
A Girragirra style morning tea and lunch in your tummy featuring all the goodies you will make on the day.
This is a full day workshop starting with a delicious morning tea on arrival at 10am for a 10.30 start getting hands on with all things milk, a break for lunch around 12.30 featuring all the goodies you will make on the day and a wander around our permaculture food garden then an afternoon discovering the basics of probiotic drinks and veggie ferments finishing around 4.30 pm.
Cost: Inclusive of morning tea and lunch is $220
Dates for 2023: All classes limited to ten people:
March Saturday 11 sold out.
October Sunday 29 6 places available
ACTIVITIES
Visit the gorgeous town of Forbes. Built on the flood plain of the Lachlan River, Forbes is picturesque year round and an absolute oasis in our hot western summers. It’s a town steeped in the history of the 1800’s gold rush, wild and woolly bush rangers and of course farming of every description. Add to this a gorgeous little boutique shopping centre and a championship Golf course.
For the nature lovers, the River is a huge draw card for fishing, canoeing or just sitting back and watching the many birds and the odd human that call it home. Gum Swamp Bird Hide is birdwatcher heaven – just four km out of town and, ahem, only a 3km return stroll from Girragirra. It’s possible to observe over 60 species of birds in just a few hours with a number listed as threatened or endangered.
Head 30 minutes north and visit Parkes, where you’ll find the CSIRO radio telescope, famous world wide for beaming back images of man’s first steps on the moon. Affectionately known as The Dish, it was the star of the best Australian movie ever called strangely enough “The Dish”.
ENVIRONMENT
From the Owners:
“With a whopping 10KW tracking solar array sitting out there in the paddock, quietly doing its energy creating thing, it’s pretty obvious that we’re fans of renewable energy.
These panels create around 24,000 KW of clean green energy a year – enough to run 3 or 4 Girragirras. We feed that power into the grid and buy back what we need, though with the current buzz around battery storage we may be able to store rather than buy, while still sharing our excess via the grid.
Setting the solar panels up to track the path of the sun across the sky delivers around a 30% increase in total power generated and it’s interesting to watch the incremental moves of these giant 3m by 4.5m arrays if you happen to be nearby, doing a bit of fencing or chook wrangling or day dreaming.
Then there’s the solar hydronic hot water and underfloor heating system, plus an Electric Car Charger.”
