Navigation Home Page The Ekolojik TaTuTa Guide Charter Notes for Foreign Guests Farms Registration of Interest Guest Contact Us The Bugday TaTuTa Family Links With the Ekolojik TaTuTa system The Bugday Association for Supporting Ecological Living is the official member of ECEAT for Turkey, as well as the national WWOOF organization of Turkey. Sponsors Ford Otosan made the TaTuTa project possible by donating the rights of use to the Bugday Association of an all-terrain pickup truck; it has been and will continue to be indispensable to the TaTuTa team in terms of transport and communication with host farms in various regions throughout Turkey. The ATLAS Geography and Discovery Magazine has supported the TaTuTa project with the film used to take photographs of host farms and their surroundings and by designing, producing and donating the use of the maps displayed in the printed and electronic TaTuTa Guide. All Farms Ahmet YILMAZ Ahmet Yılmaz is living in the farm together with his wife, two daughters and two sons. Yılmaz family can comfortably host two TaTuTa guests in their house which has both alaturka and alafranga toilets. Guests can eat with the family. Ahmet Yılmaz ... Şenpazar / Kastamonu / Western Black Sea Bahattin KAPLAN Guest Reception Period : May- September (Females only) Bahattin Kaplan and his wife Pullu host their guests in a room which can comfortably accomodate two people. The alaturka (squat) toilet is outside the house and there is gas stove heate ... Kelkit / Gümüşhane / Eastern Black Sea Bayrak Ailesi Çiftliği Ibrahim Bayrak and his wife Birsel Hanım welcome TaTuTa visitors in four rooms of their house, which has a Turkish style toilet outside, a kitchen and a bathroom. The visitors can join the family for meals or cook for themselves with the ecologi ... Gümüşhacıköy / Amasya / Eastern Black Sea CINAR Guest Reception Period: Year-round Hasan Cinar lives with his wife Unzile and their children Caglar (12), Hilal (14). TaTuTa visitors stay on the bottom floor that accommodates up to 8 people and includes two rooms, an indoor and outdoor to ... Küçükkuyu / Çanakkale / Marmara Dedetepe Farm Erkan (38) and Tamahine (34) bought the 3 acres of land 9 years ago and have recently created a farm that is an official ecological site registered with G.E.N Europe (Global Ecovillage Network). The farm produces an average of 600 kgs of olive o ... Küçükkuyu / Çanakkale / Marmara Dhara Zeytinlikleri ve Yağhanesi Guest Reception Period: All year.   Volunteer Reception Period: September to December. Green olive collecting. The organic olives from DHARA farm region’s (extensive olive tree plot) are pressed fort he making of olive oi ... Ayvacık / Çanakkale / Marmara Fatma GULBIN Farmers Erdal and Gulbin live together with their daughters Hilal (10) and Zuhal (1). They reserve their four person room for TaTuTa guests. The bathroom, with an alaturka toilet, is indoors and the bathwater is heated by the water heater. You can jo ... Borçka / Artvin / Eastern Black Sea GULBIN Çiftliği Mehmet Ali Bey and his wife Melahat Gülbin live with Melahat hanım’s father Necat Dede, and their children Taner (12), Filiz (21), and Enis (19). They arrange a guest room in which three TaTuTa visitors can easily be accommodated. The toilet is ... Borçka / Artvin / Eastern Black Sea Görgün Farm Volunteer Reception Period: Fertilizing in April, hoeing in May, hoeing and fruit rarefaction in June, harvesting and gardening in July, August and September. After serving in the industry sector for 30 years Mr. Kemal left his job because of ... Lapseki / Çanakkale / Marmara Hasan YAVUZ Hasan Bey lives with his wife Hacer Hanım, and their children Cem, Emel and Cemal Bora. They can accommodate up to twenty TaTuTa visitors in their house and in another building near the house. The toilet is Turkish style and there is a boiler for hot ... Borçka / Artvin / Eastern Black Sea Huseyin SAYDAM Available from June to October. Hüseyin Saydam, together with his wife Hatice and their daughter Halime (16 years old), host TaTuTa guests in one of their room (enough for 3 people) of their house. The toilet is of Turkish fashion and outside the hou ... Pasinler / Erzurum / Eastern Anatolia Knidia Farm The farm hosts volunteers and guests in four wooden arbors. Two of them are located on the spring flowing from the Mizingit Falls and the other two have the view of the valley, the mountains and the vineyards.The bugs and mosquitos can not disturb yo ... Datça / Muğla / Aegean Küçükağa Çiftliği Davut Kocer and his wife, Ms. Nursel, live with their children, Samet, Eda, Nida, and Seda. The set aside their top floor for guests, which has three rooms and a living room (that fits a maximjum of 11 person), an alaturka toilet, and solar-powe ... Niksar / Tokat / Eastern Black Sea Latif YALCINER Guest Reception: Available all the year for his first and second houses and in summers for his third house. Yalçıner Farm hosts TaTuTa visitors in three different houses located in three different spots. The first house located in the fruit t ... Kemaliye / Erzincan / Eastern Anatolia Life Farm Guest Reception Period: Year-roundYasemin and Ibrahim Kilic spend a large part of their time in the city for the schooling of their three daughters (Elif, Destan, and Ozan). They live in the stone house they constructed located in an apple orchar ... Gökdere Köyü / Eğridir / Isparta / Mediterranean Muhtarın Çiftliği Farmer Mehmet Ozmen, his wife Hamide Hanim, live with their mother Sukriye Nine and father Huseyin Dede and daughters Rabia, Elif Nur, Sultan, and Sukriye. The Ozmen family accommodates their guests at the TaTuTa guest house or at a lodge near their ... Terme / Samsun / Eastern Black Sea Nebil IPEK Nebil İpek lives with his wife Mrs.Fatma and their daughter Emine. The family host their visitors in the two rooms of their house where 7-8 people can comfortably stay. There is an alaturka toilet and the water is heated by gas stove. The İpek Farm h ... Kemaliye / Erzincan / Eastern Anatolia Nuri ÇELİK Nuri Çelik and his wife Emine Hanım live with their children Derya, Yasemin, Habibe and Selahaddin. They welcome 2-3 TaTuTa visitors to their house. It is possible to join the family for meals. The water is heated with a boiler in the bathroom and th ... Kelkit / Gümüşhane / Eastern Black Sea Osman GÜLVER Ali Osman and Hatice couple reserved the four rooms of their house for the TaTuTa guests. Each of the rooms can comfortably accomodate two people. A kitchen, alaturka toilet and gas stove heated hot water is available. Guests may eat with the family ... Şenpazar / Kastamonu / Western Black Sea Pastoral Vadi Guest Reception Period: Year-round ACCOMMODATION AT PASTORAL VALLEY In total we can accommodate a maximum of 45 guests in wooden houses on the banks of the Kargı River together with stone ... Yanıklar/Fethiye / Muğla / Aegean Patika (Erol SCOTT) Guest Reception: Will start hosting guests beginning in the summer of 2006 and will continue during the summer and spring seasons Volunteer Reception: Last year (2005) in July and August. Volunteer hoeing, weed plucking, irrigation, construction ... Fethiye / Muğla / Aegean Salim CANDAN Salim, Zeyne, Emine (11), Elif (17), and Ebru (19) Candan spend most of the year in Kantarli Village, while staying in their Ambarlik home, set on a high plateau, during summer months to take care of their cattle. The various work they do to get by i ... Hemşin / Rize / Eastern Black Sea Selman AKSU Guest reception period: from month 5 to month 8 Selman Bey and his wife Özlem hanım live with their children Şeyma (8), Fadime (7) Abdurrahman (3) and their grandfather . Three guests can stay in the guesthouse near their house. The house has ... Kelkit / Gümüşhane / Eastern Black Sea Taner AKYÜZ Volunteer Reception Period: May15-June15, assistance with watering, hoeing and barn operations August 20 through the end of October, corn, wheat, and barley harvesting, corn meal production, and business operations. This large-scale product ... Kelkit / Gümüşhane / Eastern Black Sea The Akinci Farm Saban and Necla Akinci and their son, Sukru (8), have designated one, 2-person room for guests in their home, which is located among citrus and avocado trees. There is water heated with solar energy and an indoor alaturka toilet in the house. Guests ... Çıralı/Kemer / Antalya / Mediterranean The Ali and Cennet Sener Farm Earning their living from tobacco production, animal husbandry and, since 1990, from organic grape and wheat production, Ali Sener is also the elected village leader (muhtar). Ali and his wife Cennet live with their son Kemal and daughter-in-law Ozle ... Tekelioğlu/Salihli / Manisa / Aegean The Ali and Fadime Bastug Farm Ali and Fadime Bastug have designated one, three-person room in their home as guests’ accommodation. Guests eat meals together with the family. Hot water is obtained from solar energy; the indoor toilet is alaturka. The Bastug family makes its living ... Ağlasun / Burdur / Mediterranean The Altinkaya Farm Habib and Ayse Altinkaya and their son Ramazan (10) have designated the small one-room house (with kitchen, water heated with solar energy and indoor alaturka toilet) in their orange grove for their guests. Guests eat meals together with the Altinkay ... Çıralı/Kemer / Antalya / Mediterranean The Asar Farm Hasan and Emine Asar carry out a small but varied agricultural production to meet their own alimentary needs and sell the surplus locally. They also cultivate organic roses. The couple wholeheartedly believes in organic agriculture but augmentation ... Ağlasun / Burdur / Mediterranean The Demirtas Farm Mehmet, Necmiye, Enes (22) and Zeynep (14) Demirtas have designated a 3-person room inside their home as guests’ accommodation. Guests eat meals together with the family. The bath always has hot water, heated with solar energy, and the indoor toilet ... Ağlasun / Burdur / Mediterranean The Ersoz Family Farm Sultan and Vehbi Ersoz, their sons Mehmet(9), Erdal (19) and Muammer have designated the two, 3-person rooms, in the back part of their adobe home, for TaTuTa visitors. The house is situated among the same fields that the family cultivates. The toile ... Başmakçı / Afyon / Aegean The Gursel Tonbul Farm In 1995 Gursel Tonbul dedicated the whole of her experience, accumulated knowledge, effort and time to the farm that bears her name. Since then, the farm produces a wide variety of plant and animal products organically and markets them both as wholes ... Davutlar/Kuşadası / Aydın / Aegean The Itaatli Farm (This farm is not able to accept volunteers or guests in 2010) Hidayet and Ulku Itaatli and their daughter Melike often have family guests in their home during the summer. For TaTuTa guests they have designated t ... Çıralı/Kemer / Antalya / Mediterranean The Jade Farm (This farm is temporarily not able to host volunteers or guests) By her own personal efforts, Berin Erturk converted the 180,000 m2 fruit orchard and 20,000 m2 vegetable garden from conventional to organic 3 years ago. At ... Maksudiye/Söğütlü / Sakarya / Marmara The Klan Farm While Levent Gursel travels between Istanbul and the Klan Farm that he, his sister Gulistan and brother-in-law Cengiz established (each passing year Levent increases the contribution to and time on the farm), Gulistan and Cengiz Arabacioglu and their ... Eceabat / Çanakkale / Marmara The Mustafa and Ayse Sener Farm Farming organically since 1989, The Sener family is among the first organic farmers in Turkey. While they earn their living from organic grape and olive production, they produce cereals, vegetables and fruits for their own needs as well. They also ca ... Tekelioğlu/Salihli / Manisa / Aegean The Mustafa and Muyesser Bastug Farm While Mustafa and Muyesser Bastug live in their home in Aglasun, just before the beginning of the TaTuTa project, with a similar idea they began construction of a guest house on their 14,000 m2 piece of land, located at the entrance to Aglasun from B ... Ağlasun / Burdur / Mediterranean The Rasayana Farm The Akgoz siblings, Muzeyyen, Bulent, Havva, and Mehmet, have been cultivating, collecting, processing, packaging and selling medicinal herbs under the brand name Rasayana at their store in Antalya of the same name. In addition to marketing their own ... Geyikbayırı / Antalya / Mediterranean The Sahin Farm Ibrahim and Sengul Sahin, their son Huseyin and daughter Gizem have designated the house in the garden next to their own house as visitor accomodation. The accomodation consists of 2, three-person rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom with water heated by sol ... Çıralı/Kemer / Antalya / Mediterranean The Tanal Family Farm Hüseyin Serdar ve Serpil Tanal, oğulları Hamza Gürkan (1988), Kaygusuz Eren (2006) ve Ayşe nineyle birlikte 2 katlı kerpiç çiftlik evinde yaşıyorlar. Konuklarını 6 geniş ve bol yatak kapasiteli odası ola ... Akçaeniş/Elmalı / Antalya / Mediterranean The Ugur Farm Ali and Yasar Ugur’s son, Hasan and their daughter, Rabia, works in Isparta and comes to Aglasun to stay with her parents on the weekends. While they meet many of their alimentary needs with the cultivation of a vegetable garden whose surplus is ... Ağlasun / Burdur / Mediterranean The Varli Farm The home of Suleyman and Sitki Varli and their three children, Durmus, Sukru and Elif, is the second floor of a two-story building situated in their vegetable garden. Like many families in Aglasun the Varli family produces food for their own consump ... Ağlasun / Burdur / Mediterranean The Yilmaz Farm Halil and Emine Yilmaz live together with their son Mehmet Ali and daughter Melike. By raising goats and chickens and cultivating feed, fruit and vegetables, production is carried out in a nearly closed natural agricultural system; but since the quan ... Ağlasun / Burdur / Mediterranean Thuya Eko Pansiyon Thuya ekopansiyon reserves 5 rooms for up to 15 TaTuTa guests and includes three bathrooms with toilet, and hot water. The farm has been practicing organic farming without a certificate since 1996, and was finally certified by BCS company this year. ... Armutlu / Yalova / Marmara Timbriada Farm Guest Acceptance: Available all year. Çiğdem Akkıran is living with her daughter Mısra and their friend Mario. They host their guests in a stone house near their home. The stone house has 2 rooms which is available for 3 persons. You can prepare y ... Aksu / Isparta / Mediterranean Yakabagh house Yakabagh house is beautifully set in an orange orchard overlooking xanthos valley, a pleasant walking distance from the ancient lycian city of pinara. Our farm consists of two ... Fethiye / Muğla / Aegean Yavuz ÖZDEN Yavuz Özden and his wife Makbule host their guests in two big room which can accomodate two or three people. Conversation with Yavuz Bey who has a strong sense of humour is a pleasure. Meals may be eaten with the family. There is both alaturka a ... Şenpazar / Kastamonu / Western Black Sea Yonca Lodge Eco Motel Yonca Lodge is a 12-room small/boutique hotel located on the beach in Yanıklar village outside Fethiye.   Not only does it lie in sight of the Mediterranean’s most beautiful islands and bays but, with the beach on one side ... Fethiye / Muğla / Aegean Yusuf ÇOŞKUN Cosgun traveled the world as a sailor, finally returning to the Hemsin mountains, where tranquility, wildlife richness, and communal warmth remain unmatched. Cosgun has an organic certificate for beekeeping and chicken farming. His wife, Zehra, daugh ... Hemşin / Rize / Eastern Black Sea Yüksel Baba Çiftliği Lütfiye Aslanoğlu, her daughter Demet (a civil servant), her son Harun (farmer) reside on the farm, and Funda, her second daughter (who is an academic at Ondokuz Mayıs University - Department of Agriculture) comes to the farm on the weekends. Two roo ... Kabalı Köyü / Sinop / Western Black Sea Yüksel ERDOĞAN Yüksel and Yasemin Erdoğan couple reserve the second floor of their house for the TaTuTa guests. The house has two big room that can accomodate three person, a kitchen, a Turkish fashion toilet and a bathroom that is heated by a stove. They eat ... Şenpazar / Kastamonu / Western Black Sea Zeynel Abidin AKSU Guest Reception Period: May-July (families or females only) Zeynel Bey and his wife Rabia hanım live with their children Selim (9) and Sultan (4) and have opened the guesthouse near their house for TaTuTa visitors. Three people can stay in that ... Kelkit / Gümüşhane / Eastern Black Sea Özlem KARACA Süleyman Karaca and his wife Özlem Karaca couple , their sons Ahmet and Önder Ali are living together. They host TaTuTa guests in one of their rooms which can accomodate 2-3 people. There is a gas stove to heat water and an alaturka toilet. Karaca fa ... Kemaliye / Erzincan / Eastern Anatolia Özlü Ailesi Çiftliği Guest Reception Period: July, watering and looking after vegetables, August and September, hazlenut collection and vegetable harvest Hamdi Ozlu and his wife Dilber Hanim live together with their daughters, Medine, Havva, Sumeyye, and their fath ... Çilimli / Düzce / Marmara FACEBOOK Click below link to join our Facebook group. TATUTA FACEBOOK top © 2004 - 2010 Bugday TaTuTa | info@tatuta.org