THE FARM
The Farm is what grew next.Just inland from The Other Side, across the bay from Harbour Island, The Farm is part small hotel, part working farm, and part gentle experiment in doing things a little differently. We started with an overgrown road and a few wild mango trees in the middle of the jungle. We ended up with over a 200 garden beds, chickens, a freshwater pool, and a few rooms tucked among the trees. It’s a place to rest, grow, and maybe lose track of time.
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The Rooms..
Two kinds of cottages, both rustic yet elegant, thatched and spacious... We offer two room types — Large and Small. The Large Cottages come with king beds, spacious verandas, and an open-plan layout. The Small Cottages have a lighter footprint and the flexibility to convert from a king to twin beds. All rooms have WiFi, AC, Nespresso machines, and kettles for tea. They also come with something else: peace and quiet, and a view of the garden beds, wild greenery, and the slow rhythm of things growing.
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Farm to table..
What started as an amateur farming experiment now feeds not just The Farm, but our kitchens across the bay. Meals are simple and mostly local: seafood from nearby waters, vegetables from our garden, and fruit when the trees decide to give. A continental Breakfast is included. Lunch is light. Dinner is available on select evenings. And each Sunday we offer a long-table ‘bruncheon’ — usually fish and grits (a bahamian breakfast staple) , sometimes six people, sometimes sixty. Our bar is small but well considered, with cocktails, mocktails, and whatever fruit we’ve been able to sneak in from the orchard, Pip’s garden, or the nearby farms.
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Explore..or not
The Farm is a 4-minute walk from The Other Side, which means easy access to the beach, paddleboards, and everything else over there. Here, we’ve got a freshwater pool in the orchard, an air-conditioned gym, and a lot of very comfortable chairs under trees. You can nap. You can read. You can help feed the chickens. Pull some weeds. Plant some seeds. Pick some tomatoes. Simply sit and forget about the crazy world we live in. Or you can rent a jeep and go find Eleuthera’s hidden beaches, blue holes, and sleepy settlements — the kind with the occasional conch stand or a local bar with beer and view.
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Our Story
The Farm was in some ways the first chapter in our story as much as it has been the next. About 15 years ago, an Irish expat from Donegal convinced me — fresh out of school and cooking at Ocean View — to try farming in the inland bush. We hired a tractor, cleared an old road, and struck a buried pipe. It turned out to be a freshwater well — and just like that, the site for The Farm was set. The land was cleared, but not much grew — apart from weeds. A decade or so later, a guest from Nantucket, escaping winter and full of energy, helped lay out 143 garden beds and build a rock-walled courtyard. From that seed, something real began to grow. What started as an experiment has become a place to explore the potential of the land — where we grow food, scale new ideas, and quietly challenge what tourism in The Bahamas can look like.
Come for the garden. Stay for the stillness.
Or the brunch. Or the chance to support something that grows a little differently.
