Booking
Through the site or a messenger, two nights minimum at weekends.
The village today
We want people to live in the village again
11wooden houses on one street.
7houses are ours. All need repair, but the log walls can be saved.
4houses belong to neighbours who come to their gardens now and then.
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Now
Right now nobody lives in the houses. The lower logs are rotting, the roofs leak, the gardens are overgrown. Without repairs the houses will stand for only a few more winters.
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The same street two years later
We will restore them in the local style: log walls, a stove, carved window frames. Three houses will welcome guests, the others will hold a cheese dairy, a workshop and the dining house.
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After restoration
The owners lived in Italy for 16 years, so the village will have a little Italy in it: a garden with artichokes and Italian evenings.
What we are doing
Houses, a banya, a garden and our own food
- 01Restored housesLog walls, a stove, window frames and a shingle roof, with a shower and a warm floor inside.
- 02Guest housesOne family rents the whole house, and bread, cheese and honey are already on the table.
- 03A banya by the pondA wooden banya (wood-fired bathhouse) with a jetty into a cleaned pond.
- 04A garden with a touch of ItalyGreenhouses, tomatoes for pasta, radicchio and lemons in tubs.
- 05A table of our own foodBread from the stove, cheese, honey in the comb, draniki and a seven-course dinner.
- 06Our own productsBirch syrup, bison grass, cheese, honey and soap under the Ten Houses name.
How guests will live
From arrival to departure
A guest arrives in the village, settles into a house for their own family, goes to the banya by the pond, eats what grew here and leaves with a jar of syrup as a gift.
A guest day, hour by hour · Drag or swipe
A letter the day before
How to get here, what to bring, the menu and the banya time.
Welcome at the gate
The host shows the stove, the water, the lights and the banya.
A basket on the table
Bread, cheese, syrup, honey and apples.
Evening and morning
Dinner or the banya, a campfire, breakfast and programmes by season.
Departure
A jar of syrup as a gift and a request for a review.
A year in the village
Guests all year round
Winter
Bison in the fields, sleighs, the banya and snow.
Spring
Birch sap, morels, birds.
Summer
Bison grass, honey, Kupala Night, evenings by the pond.
Autumn
Mushrooms, apples and cider, juniper.
Garden and kitchen with a touch of Italy
Garden, greenhouses and a touch of Italy
The owners lived in Italy for 16 years and want the village to have its own piece of Tuscany: chicory, artichokes, black kale and tomatoes for sauce. The garden feeds the family and the guests.
Italian evening
Thursday, Italian style
- 01Handmade pastaA lesson with the hosts, sauce from our own tomatoes.
- 02RibollitaA Tuscan soup on rye bread from our stove.
- 03Ricotta from wheyWhat is left from klinkovy cheese, so nothing is wasted.
- 04Focaccia from the stoveWith rosemary and salt.
Village dinner
The food people come here for
Products
Our own products
Birch syrup, bison grass, cheese, honey and soap under the Ten Houses name.
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The money box
Raising funds for the first houses and the first products
What your help changes
Every step is visible
New lower logs, a roof and a stove. A house that would otherwise collapse lives again.
A cheese dairy, an apiary, a kitchen and a workshop give work to people who will want to live here.
Guests see European bison, go to the banya and take home the village's food.
Stage one: save the log houses and open the first guest houses
$1,300
Raised $1,300 of $102,000
Total to launch: up to $220,000
Thank you to everyone who is already with us. Every transfer is visible on the blockchain.
The money box scale
What has been raised already covers: Stove repair
The next step: Greenhouse
- Stove repair600–2,100 BYN
- Greenhouse2,800–6,000 BYN
- First products4,200–7,200 BYN
- Five log hives for bees2,900–8,100 BYN
- Cleaning the pond4,800–14,400 BYN
- Banya by the pond14,100–25,700 BYN
Upper estimates from our plan, from small steps to large ones.
Donations are voluntary gifts to the project, not an investment. They give no share in the project and bring no return. For a larger partnership, write to us through the form on the Partners page. Partner form ↗
09 /Questions
The project in brief
What is Ten Houses?
A plan to restore a village in Belarus by an old forest. Of the eleven houses on the street, seven are ours: they will become guest houses, workshops and the owners' home.
Is the project already running?
No, this is a plan before the start. We are looking for people who will help us begin with the first house.
Why are there no photos of the village on the site?
All images were created by AI. We show the real place to partners in person.
Become a partner
Help us begin
The project has not started yet. You can support it with a donation, invest in one house or take your own area, such as the cheese dairy or the apiary.