2 acres hosted by Joan K.
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A Spiritual Garden Retreat off the beaten path but close to civilization. Camping with botanical story book feel. Enjoy the pool. Walk through the gardens around the house. Pick the fresh vegetables and fruit when in season. Tour the town and local historic community. Enjoy local activities within minutes. Recline in the wooded gardens, go for a swim when in season, or head into town. Eat in or enjoy any number of fine foods from various ethnicities. Relax in the plush modern movie theater. Enjoy a local community theater production. Or get in your trills at Quassy Amusement Park. Hike or bike a multitude of trails and paths within minutes. Want to hear live local musicians or go to a concert, we have that too. Or maybe you prefer a museum or art show. Or maybe a winery, brewery or distillery is more to your taste, we have these within in 20 minutes or less from us. We also offer a night of farm to table (seasonal) smoked food such as turkey, beef, pork, fish, cheese and/or vegetables for $70 per person.
Don't worry about the weather. Or guests repeatedly say is that even when it rains, it is still a great adventure as the sound of the rain on the tent is just soothing and relaxing.
Joan and Chris have been together since 1996 and married since 2000. Joan runs two nonprofits related to psychological abuse and custodial interference as well as dabbles in the arts creating products from recycled and repurposed materials. Chris has been master carpenter and cabinet maker since the 1980’s. The two spend time keeping the grounds and gardens up and going out to dance. They love live music. The property is also the home to 3 cats.
While physical check out of the tent is 10am, please ask if you would like to stay later. We can do a day rental of just the pool and gardens for an additional fee of $600 for parties of up to 20 people. For larger events, such as weddings, please contact us to discuss.
Please ask if you would like to stay a little later than typical check out time. We often can accommodate.
Please do NOT pick the fruits or veggies without asking as often things are not quite ripe yet. When things are ripe, we will try to put a bowl of fresh stuff out for you to choose from.
Of course, it goes without saying, Please be considerate and clean up after yourselves. No smoking cigarettes or e-cigarette, vapes in the tent. If you need to bring a pet, they must be well-trained and not have an issue with cats or other dogs as we have 3 cats. Pets are NOT allowed to go to the bathroom on the lawn or in the gardens. They must either go in the woods or in the designated area for this. Please clean up after your pet if in the designated area. Ask us for how and where.
We provide a wide range of amenities including first aid, bathroom and shower supplies. If you forget your tooth brush we usually have new extras around. Please bring bathing suits. We do have pool towels if you need them. If you need ice for our or your coolers, please purchase before hand. There are two supermarkets in town along with lots of other amenities in town.
Please do not smoke in the tent as it sticks to the canvas. But you are welcome to smoke or vape outside of the tent.
Parking on site off of the driveway across from the house.
Please let us know if you need a later checkout time as checkout time can be altered to later in the day depending on new arrivals. The pool area is shared with the homeowners.
If there is something you need, please do not hesitate to ask. We are pretty reasonable about requests.
If you would like breakfast or a smoked meal, please let us know as there is an additional fee for this.
We can do a day rental of just the pool and gardens for an additional fee of $600 for parties of up to 20 people. For larger events, such as weddings, please contact us to discuss.Romantic Botanical Garden Glamping
A Spiritual Garden Retreat off the beaten path located on 2 acres but close to civilization. Camping with botanical story book feel. Enjoy the pool. Walk through the gardens around the house. Pick the fresh vegetables and fruit when in season. Tour the town and local historic community. Enjoy local activities within minutes. Recline in the wooded gardens, go for a swim when in season, or head into town. Eat in or enjoy any number of fine foods from various ethnicities. Relax in the plush modern movie theater. Enjoy a local community theater production. Or get in your trills at Quassy Amusement Park. Hike or bike a multitude of trails and paths within minutes. Want to hear live local musicians or go to a concert, we have that too. Or maybe you prefer a museum or art show. Or maybe a winery, brewery or distillery is more to your taste, we have these within in 20 minutes or less from us. We also offer a night of smoked food such as turkey, beef, pork, fish, cheese and/or vegetables for $50 per person. We also provide extra large fleece bathrobes to rap yourself in. Fresh clean sheets and towels too.
Joan and Chris have been together since 1996 and married since 2000. Joan runs two nonprofits related to psychological abuse and custodial interference as well as dabbles in the arts creating products from recycled and repurposed materials. Chris has been master carpenter and cabinet maker since the 1980’s. The two spend time keeping the grounds and gardens up and going out to dance. They love live music. The property is also the home to 3 cats and two dogs.
Our story is unique in that we originally were living in Ridgefield, CT but could not afford a home there. My husband's best friend was now living in Southbury, so we decided to do a search for affordable places to live. We put in more parameters for our search than we really needed but up popped this house. It is very unique and the property is too. And it turns out, our home is part of the old Ed Sullivan Estate. yes, that Ed Sullivan who had the first variety show that lasted for decades. He has the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Marilyn Monroe, Lucy Ball and many other famous people not only on his show, but at his home. Many of whom actually ended up buying and living in CT nearby. His house is diagonal from ours.
We live in an A-Frame (triangle shaped home). The property is surrounded by all sorts of little special gardens, nooks and crannies. And it came with an unground pool that we custom painted black with the image of 2 red roses on the bottom.
Our town is also quite unique in that it has an easy access off of the highway from 4 points but it also has a tremendous amount of things to do in the area. In fact, we have a booklet with over 20 plus pages of things in the area to do, from arts, to bakeries, to hiking to museums and more.
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River, stream, or creek
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