“Zadiņi” encompasses 90 hectares of organically certified meadows, forests, and ponds, along with domestic birds and animals, cows, bees, and family gardens. The farm also features a unique collection of unusual bicycles or freak bikes, consisting of more than 70 handcrafted bikes. “Zadiņi” works closely with the village and school of Launkalne, as well as with social and environmental activists across Latvia and internationally.

Here, local solutions to global challenges are actively explored. Learning from the ethics of permaculture and traditional skills, the community protects biodiversity, supports healthy human relationships, encourages shared work, practices regenerative land management, and develops alternatives to dominant economic models.

Community members have extensive experience in social research, pedagogy, lifelong learning, arts, crafts, medicinal plant use, and agriculture. Events of various scales, including courses, workshops, and youth camps, have been held regularly at “Zadiņi” since 2017.

Offer

• Guided tour of the eco-village;
• Rides on the freak bikes;
• Discussions on ecological lifestyle, sustainable land management, sustainable development, community organisation, permaculture, recycling, and upcycling.

In addition to the farm and freak bike collection tours, visitors may also choose:

• Forest walk along a fairy-tale trail (1 hour, EUR 3 per person);
• Lecture on medicinal plants (1 hour, EUR 3 per person);
• Lecture on the healing properties of trees (1 hour, EUR 3 per person);
• Overnight stay in the hay hotel (EUR 15 per person);
• Sauna ritual led by an experienced sauna master (4 hours, EUR 60, up to 2 people);
• Custom order of a personal, freak bike (by arrangement with the craftsman).