Services & Contact

Get your own Yurt

If you like to have your own Kyrgyz Yurt or even have your own Yurt Village, we do have a competent team to plan your yurt, build it at the Issyk-kul lake, transport it, color it according to your wishes and build it up together with you in your location. The Yurts traditionally do have 6m diameter, but can be built in individual sizes. Traditionally, there is a red coating, but we do offer high quality coatings in various colors: We do offer our expertise as well to plan the protection of the yurt and the adjustment to the local environmental conditions.
If you are interested, please get in touch

Products from East Africa

We produce carpets and sun umbrellas in East Africa from palm leaves and directly import them with fair trade conditions for the people who made the items – mostly mothers with kids without husband.
We do have a wide range of products, starting with sun umbrellas for the beach or your garden, carpets, shopping bags, coats, Sisal etc.
If you are interested, please get in touch.

The (current) Hortus "Engine"

Frank Neumann is the developer, founder, implementer and main owner (95%) of the Hortus Cyrenaicus. In 2021 he was inspired to build a kind of "Arch Noah" where he could live with his family when retiring not having any fear about energy prices, water resources or basic food supply. In the mean time, the Hortus Cyrenaicus did grow quite intense. Frank spent all his lifetime savings to realise the idea of having a place where people can live from what they plant and harvest and where the elementary supplies are provided.
To achieve this goal, one man will not be able to run such a big project alone. Frank decided to open Hortus for people with a similar mindset, who do not have a large amount of money and probably are also not willingly to take on such a risk...but who do have some kind of experience in certain areas of farming or in technological areas, to take care of machines or with life stock etc.
Frank bought the land, took care of the water and electricity supply, built a fence around the area as well as the ecotourism sector in order to allocate funds for his pension when his savings are spent.
Hortus Cyrenaicus consists of 5 hectars land, has its own water supply and a80 KW solar power plant in addition to solar thermic heating devices.
In the basic map, it is shown that about 1 hectar land is foreseen for residents who would like to have their private territory. Here six plots of about 1.800 square meters each shall find their residents in 2025, hopefully.
Frank is fully aware that it does need some training and coaching with the residents and him together in order to find their common agreement(s) for their community living.
Here, the options are wide open, from sharing the overall workload of the current farming, starting with farming projects, livestock, bees, fish etc, or even for residents to do their individual things, eg. digital nomad living, pensioner living just on their own territory...
In addition, the Hortus Cyrenaicus is seen as a place of training and dissemination as well as Art and Culture activities. Here a wide list of activities are foreseen where new residents are also more than welcome to join or take over their own part. To make the community able to live, it needs respect, understanding, readiness and communication. It would be a pleasure to see this happen. Frank would be more than happy finding reliable and interested people to join, support and take over their parts.

Contact & Documents

The Hortus Cyrenaicus currently exists of:
.... Frank Neumann: Founder, Investor, CEO
.... Ifigeneia Amoutzia: Shareholder, Course Creator

Active Members and Supporters:
.... Diandra Helbig: Permaculture Garden Designer, Implementer, Trainer, Composting Specialist...

.... Eugene Balasis: Supporter from day 0, in finding the location, creative designing, architectural ideas, music production

.... Mathaios Kaisidis: Hortus Legal Consulting Supporter

Address: Hortus Cyrenaicus O.E.
57012 Petrokerasa
Greece
Email: Frank_Neumann@hortus.gr

Info Document in English

Infobroschüre auf Deutsch

Spanish Borchure