Our Offer
Visit our garden
Our school garden is open to visitors. Please give us a call and we can set up a day and time. We can also organize transportation for you. Food can be provided by us as well.
See below more about the special program for children and schools.
The visit is free for school classes.
You can contact us via e-mail or phone:
Evrard Benasoavina, Mobile: +261 32 8029869 & +261 34 0444747
Tours with guides
Garden tours
We offer tours through our garden which include, among others, a visit to our vegetable garden and our agroforest with medicinal and fruit trees. You can harvest yourself some ripe fruits and try delicious local fruits. We will also explain to you the usage of leaves and barks for medicinal or cooking purposes.
We will also visit the animal house and the fish pond. With the freshly harvested fruits and vegetables we will cook lunch or dinner together and you can experience the Malagasy style of cooking.
You’ll see our exhibition of seven different vanilla species. Here we will explain to you why Malagasy vanilla is so famous and tell you about the process of vanilla farming from pollination, to harvesting and drying.
Surroundings of the garden
Visit the area around the garden with a guided tour. We offer tours in different languages. You’ll get an interesting insight into the malagasy animal and plant world.
Hosting your event or course
We also offer to host meetings for your organization or a private event (birthday party, wedding, family gatherings etc.) at our garden. We provide our interpretive center for conferences (beamer and white board is available for presentations) or celebrations. We can organize for you food and overnight stay.
Book our training
We offer training for groups for the following topics: restoration, pisciculture, tree nursery and permaculture. Read the more about such a course in our blog article.
Please get in touch with us (Evrard Benasoavina, mobile: +261 32 8029869 & +261 34 0444747) and we can discuss and arrange your specific wishes.
Program for children
If you come with kids, you can use the playground, the football field, take a ride on the canoe or enjoy our books and games at the library.
School classes
For school classes we offer a special program: During a three-day visit to our garden the kids will follow a special education plan. On the first day they will learn about the environment, on the second day about biodiversity and on the last day about sustainability. The program includes teaching lessons, games, practical exercises in permaculture, planting and waste management as well as nature journaling and drawing.
Stay overnight
We have 4 bungalows made with traditional Malagasy material. All bungalows are equipped with comfortable mattresses, pillows, blankets and mosquito nets. We also have a toilet as well as a shower. Water is provided through a dwell. All drinking water is filtered by us. We have an open air and roofed lunch area where we cook and eat with our guests. In the evenings, you can enjoy a movie in our classroom, go on a night excursion to look at night active wildlife or simply enjoy the sounds of nature and clear night skies far away from the busy city of Sambava.
Collaboration with local businesses
We would like to work more closely together with hotels, tourist guides and businesses in Sambava to make our school garden more widely known. If you would like to bring visitors to our garden, feel free to get in touch. You can also download our flyer to share with your customers. If you are a local business which is selling Malagasy souvenirs or other products: Feel free to get in touch with us and we can exchange about a sales space in our school garden during one of our events.