Cultivating your health

Keyembempt, Nekkersgat, Geleytsbeek, Melkriek, Neerstalle, Wolvenberg, Kauwberg … So many names evoking a rural past. Here, the house acquired in 1932 was built on a former brick factory and the pear trees trellised in gazebos are nearly eighty years old.

Since her early childhood, the owner has perpetuated the tradition of collecting medicinal plants as she did with her grandmother. It is only natural that she has surrounded herself here with wild plants, fruit trees, birds, insects and hardy vegetables.