Best Farm to Table Sustainable Hotels and Eco Friendly Stays in Curacao
Where to stay for farm to table in Curacao
The 4 best farm to table stays in Curacao lean on family kitchens, native island gardens and locally rooted hospitality, from the de Haseth family running Mondi Lodge in Klein Sint Michiel to Mary and Huib tending the lush native gardens at Villa San Sebastian in Sint Willibrordus. From Jan Thiel near Willemstad, where the pioneering Morena Eco Resort holds Green Globe, Green Key and Travelife certification, out to the quiet hills of Sint Willibrordus, these stays are top rated for putting Curacao on your plate through homegrown produce and genuinely local cooking.
How we choose the best farm to table stays in Curacao
What earns a place on this list is how these Curacao farm to table stays protect the soil and back the local growers who feed them, like Villa San Sebastian Curaçao, where Mary and Huib keep lush native gardens that draw in wild birds and grow the produce they cook from. Because in dry Curacao a kitchen that leans on imports loses the island flavour and the habitat that hosts like Villa San Sebastian Curaçao work to keep alive.
Villa San Sebastian Curaçao tends those native gardens and homegrown produce as one with the cooking, so the link between food and place in Curacao stays intact for the wild birds the gardens draw and for the guests who come after you.
We look for that same instinct in stays with deep local roots, like Mondi Lodge, the family run lodge in Klein Sint Michiel founded by the de Haseth family with daughter Danita at its heart, and in stays with proven credentials, like Morena Eco Resort in Jan Thiel, holder of Green Globe, Green Key and Travelife certifications. Because for the de Haseth family behind Mondi Lodge and the team at Morena Eco Resort, protecting the land that feeds them is protecting their own future, and yours. See more in our guide to the best farm to table eco stays across the Caribbean.
Top Farm to Table Picks in Curacao
- Villa San Sebastian Curaçao: Mary and Huib run an eco lodge in Sint Willibrordus with lush native gardens that draw in wild birds.
- Mondi Lodge: A locally owned, family run eco lodge in Klein Sint Michiel, founded in 2014 by the de Haseth family with daughter Danita at the heart.
- Morena Eco Resort: The pioneering eco resort on Curaçao in Jan Thiel, certified by Green Globe, Green Key and Travelife.
Morena Eco Resort is the pioneering eco resort on Curaçao, set in Jan Thiel near Willemstad and certified by Green Globe, Green Key and Travelife.
A solar water heater on every room generates a full day of hot water from one hour of sun, a greywater system recycles waste water into the garden, and 80 per cent of the native vegetation was preserved during a build made from regionally sourced fair trade materials, with Restaurant Fuego leaning on fresh tropical produce.
Mondi Lodge is a locally owned, family run eco lodge in Klein Sint Michiel near Willemstad, founded in 2014 by the de Haseth family with daughter Danita at the helm after she returned to her birth island.
Its six wooden palapas sit on poles under thatched palm roofs, water is heated by solar panels and the garden irrigated with groundwater, the lodge grows its own fruit and vegetables, and a chlorine free magnesium pool sits in a tropical garden alive with iguanas, hummingbirds and parakeets.
LionsDive Beach Resort is a Green Key certified dive resort on Mambo Beach near Willemstad, fronted by its own house reef and the PADI five star Ocean Encounters dive centre.
An 864 panel solar array supplies roughly 70 per cent of the resort’s daily energy, treated wastewater nourishes the gardens, and guests dive and snorkel for a purpose with the Reef Renewal Foundation Curaçao, touring the coral nurseries it maintains on the reef.
Villa San Sebastian Curaçao is an eco lodge in Sint Willibrordus owned and run by Mary and Huib, with lush native gardens drawing in wild birds.
The studios run on solar energy with solar heated water on the roofs, draw on deep well water and rainwater collection, separate and recycle their waste, and feed greywater from the kitchens and showers to a small forest of banana trees beside the villa.
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