About Us

Our place here is situated on a magnificent 968 acre forested property situated in a unique, serene forested location 43km north-west of Dorrigo, New South Wales, Australia. It adjoins the World Heritage forests of Mt Hyland Nature Reserve and is surrounded by vast wilderness areas of State Forests and National Parks, offering spectacular scenery.


  Rosie and Barry in the forest at Motherland

 
 

We offer accommodation for individuals, couples, families as well as groups of up to 30 people. Our facilities and our beautiful place here in the forest is also available for workshops and retreats for those wishing to connect deeply to the earth and within themselves. Our steadily growing range of courses and retreats will allow you, for example, to explore native skills and philosophies, wilderness and bush survival skills, plant identification, environmental studies, meditation practices, or simply to rest and regenerate.

We have six types of rainforest communities and eight open forest communities surrounding our Lodge and the adjoining Mt Hyland Nature Reserve.(See the botanical overview for more detailed information.) There are many species of plants and animals present here, all living in their native habitats, and some of them rare and endangered: over a 100 species of birds; koalas, wallabies, possums, gliders, kangaroos, bandicoots, quoll, 10 types of frogs, and a variety of reptiles, just to mention a few. (The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service has a species list for Mt Hyland Nature Reserve on its Wildlife Atlas website.)


"Through our relationship with the natural world
we unfold the messages of life and meet with our own peace."

 
   

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