In 2017, after a year of traveling through South East Asia, we came back to Berlin with a desire to reconnect with nature, and decided to embark on a new adventure: to breathe new life into a little old farmhouse in Jüterbog, Brandenburg.
At our small permaculture farm, we grow our own vegetables, let our chickens and ducks run free, and embrace a slower, more intentional and sustainable way of life.
Our farm is more than just a place to grow food- it’s a space for connection, creativity and community. We host farm-to-table dinners, creative and educational workshops, team offsites and parties. We aim to offer an escape from the demands of the outside world, and hope to offer our guests a chance to reconnect with slow, mindful living, meaningful interactions, and the joy of life itself.
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Banh Xeo
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Events
Sketching Nature – A Painting Retreat with Orla Stevens – 13 & 14 September
Join artist Orla Stevens for a weekend of nature, creative mixed media sketchbook play and delicious meals grown straight from the garden. This sketchbook & painting retreat is for artists of all stages who are looking to loosen up, play more freely, and respond to both what you can see as well as feel through drawing and painting.
Together, we’ll explore how to capture a sense of place through mixed media; responding to the surrounding nature and landscape of the farm, while also tapping into our personal and emotional connections to place, and being outdoors. With a focus on curiosity, colour, mark-making and self-expression, this retreat invites you to experiment with new ways of seeing and responding through painting.
Whether you’re looking to build confidence outdoors, create alongside like-minded folks or refresh your creative process, this retreat offers a supportive space and a toolkit of ideas you can take back home or to your studio, on your travels, or into everyday life.
In this workshop we will be exploring mixed media with acrylic paints, inks, charcoal, oil pastel and more on paper. Materials are provided, but if you have any materials or sketchbooks you’d love to bring along feel free to do so.
Sessions
Day one focuses on exploration and experimentation in your sketchbook. We’ll forage for inspiration outdoors: collecting colours, textures and shapes from the landscape and surrounding nature, and play with a wide range of materials and techniques. This day will equip you with a variety of playful approaches to drawing and painting (spanning both intuitive abstract and representational approaches) that you can take with you outside sketching wherever you go.
Day one shares experimental ways to connect with place, drawing in response to what we can see, hear, feel and remember.
Day two offers a slower, deeper dive into painting processes; developing your sketches and research into expressive artworks that reflect both the external landscape and your own creative voice.
On day two we will bring our favourite processes and ideas together, to create a painting that brings the same lightness, looseness and sense of play from our sketches forwards into a developed idea.
Schedule
Saturday
Arrival from 10am possible
12:00 – Farm tour
13:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 – First workshop
18:00 – Dinner
Sunday
09:00 – Breakfast
11:00 – 12:30 – Second workshop – part one
12:30 – 13.30 – Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 – Second workshop – part two
16:00 Departure
Price
200 euros, which includes overnight stay in a cosy room of 3-5 people, 6 hours of workshops, materials, and organic vegan/vegetarian meals.
180 euros if you register and pay by August 27, or have attended a previous event at our farm.
Limited double private rooms are available for an additional cost.
Due to the nature of this event, cancellations are not possible, however you can transfer your spot to another person.
Register
Email [email protected] to sign up. Places are limited.
Location
Flämingo Farm, Fröhden
The farm is easily accessible by public transport.
Participants coming from Berlin can take a train Jüterbog and from that point take a bookable shuttle bus, or bike a 10km on a dedicated bike path to the farm.
About Orla
Orla Stevens is a Scottish artist inspired by the small moments that connect us more deeply to the world around us. Through painting, illustration and the creative process itself, Orla’s work explores themes of curiosity, awe, joy and wonder of the natural world; finding inspiration in how places and a connection to nature feels.
Orla’s art and teaching is centred around creative play, plein-air / on-location sketching and painting as a way to notice more, to slow down, to loosen up and to stay open to inspiration. To accompany her painting practice, Orla founded and teaches through ‘The Outdoor Sketchbook Collective’, an online community and art membership for artists around the world: To encourage connections with nature, place, creativity and self expression through play, mixed-media experimentation and gentle exploration.
Learn more about Orla’s work and teaching here:
https://www.youtube.com/@OrlaStevens
Pakistani Farm-to-Table Weekend with Shabnam Syed (Mama Shabz / Desi Diner)
Join us for a weekend of warmth and spice, inspired by the flavours of South Asia.
Shabnam brings the heart of Mama Shabz and the playful soul of Desi Diner to our farm kitchen, with a seasonal, slow-cooked menu full of vibrant flavours and comforting classics.
Enjoy a vegan/vegetarian three-course dinner on Saturday, and a laid-back brunch on Sunday, made with fresh produce from our small permaculture farm.
*Menu coming soon*
Schedule
Saturday
Arrival from 4pm possible
5pm – farm tour & how we ended up here
6pm – dinner
Sunday
10am – brunch
Price
Cost is 140 euros, which includes a 3-course meal, overnight stay at our farm in a cosy, shared space (private double rooms available at an additional cost) & brunch on Sunday.
Due to the nature of this event, cancellations are not possible, however you can transfer your spot to another person.
Register
Email [email protected] to sign up. Places are limited.
Location
Flämingo Farm, Fröhden
The farm is easily accessible by public transport.
Participants coming from Berlin can take a train Jüterbog and from that point take a bookable shuttle bus, or bike a 10km on a dedicated bike path to the farm.
About Shabnam
Shabnam Syed is the cook and creative behind Berlin-based food projects Mama Shabz and Desi Diner.
Through Mama Shabz, she’s been sharing soulful Pakistani home cooking since 2015, while Desi Diner is her newer concept celebrating South Asian-inspired comfort food with a modern twist.
Her work blends heritage, storytelling, and community, always rooted in bold flavours and honest hospitality.
The Novel as a Garden – A Writing Retreat with Celina Baljeet Basra – October 4 & 5
An intense weekend to workshop your novel and build a toolbox for your future writing. Bring your draft and let it soar!
Over the weekend at Flämingo, we will cover different aspects of how to build a novel. We will work on the anatomy of your novel, discuss forms and techniques, and write together.
We will read Zadie Smith, Olga Ravn, Carmen Maria Machado, Italo Calvino, Sandra Cisneros, Olivia Laing, Jamaica Kincaid, George Perec, Ibtisam Azem, and others, and look beyond literature for inspiration too—most importantly towards the generative force of nature. The permaculture farm of Flämingo Farm will not just be a setting and safe space for our writing to flourish, but its garden will serve as a model to understand what it means to write a novel.
Open to any writer working on a novel, whichever stage. Non-native English speakers are very welcome.
Sessions
Session 1: Introduction: The Novel as a Garden
- Structure, timeline & protagonists: drawing up a map for our novel
Session 2: Seeds
- First page: discussing reading material
- How to build a character: writing exercise & exploring techniques
Session 3: Trails & Roots
- Plot, process & possible endings
Session 4: Harvest
- Editing & submitting your manuscript
- Feedback and questions
Schedule
SATURDAY
12:00 – Farm tour
13:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 16.00 – Session One
Introduction: The Novel as a Garden
Structure, timeline & protagonists: drawing up a map for our novel
16:30 – 18.30 – Session Two: Seeds
First page: discussing reading material
How to build a character: writing exercise & exploring techniques
19:00 – Dinner
SUNDAY
09:00 – Breakfast
10:00 – 12.00 – Session Three: Trails & Roots
Plot, process & possible endings
12.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Session Four: Harvest
Editing & submitting your manuscript
Feedback and questions
Price
220 euros, which includes 6 hours of workshops, overnight stay at our farm in a cosy, shared room of 3-5 people, and organic vegan/vegetarian meals.
200 euros, if you register and pay by September 15, or have attended a previous event at our farm.
Limited double private rooms are available for an additional cost.
Due to the nature of this event, cancellations are not possible, however you can transfer your spot to another person.
Register
Email [email protected] to sign up. Places are limited.
Location
Flämingo Farm, Fröhden
The farm is easily accessible by public transport.
Participants coming from Berlin can take a train Jüterbog and from that point take a bookable shuttle bus, or bike a 10km on a dedicated bike path to the farm.
About Celina
Celina Baljeet Basra is a writer, curator, and art historian, based in Berlin. She published her debut novel HAPPY with Astra House, New York, in 2023 (New York Times Editor’s Pick). Celina has graduated in Art History in a Global Context, and has since worked as the curator of the art space Galerie im Turm, at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, and with Berlin Biennale. She is a founder of the curatorial collective The Department of Love, who recently commissioned the text-based Love Letter series inviting Sheena Patel, Priya Jay and Quinn Latimer, amongst others. Celina has been awarded residencies with the Shanghai Biennale and Kochi Biennale, and she has received both curatorial and literary research stipends of the Berlin senate. She is part of several juries for public art funding, and appointed member of the Berlin Atelierbeirat. She is currently working on her second novel.
TESTIMONIALS:
Celina has an uncanny ability to create a welcoming space for each of us to feel heard. Her insightful feedback, and the warm community she creates, moved my work forward in important ways.
— Ruth Sergel
Celina’s course offers a brilliant opportunity to explore the essential elements of writing a novel and take a dive deep into your own writing. While analysing the mechanics of successful first novels, writers investigate their own work in progress and elements of their book’s structure, characters, plot and tone. Celina is a thoughtful teacher, her feedback is insightful and encouraging, and the workshopping portion helps build a precious community of peers that can stay with you as you develop on your writing journey.
— Angela Sangma Francis
We’ve hosted a wide range of events—company offsites, permaculture and art workshops, vocal retreats, chess weekends, murder mystery parties, concerts, theatre performances, and farm-to-table dinners.
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