Experience sustainable hospitality at Alma Resort and its organic farm

Experience true sustainability and luxury hospitality when you stay at Alma Resort in Cam Ranh, Vietnam. Enjoy the resort fruits, vegetables, herbs, and chicken eggs, grown in its own organic farm. From zero-kilometer meals to breathtaking beachfront views, Alma offers an unforgettable holiday experience that will leave you feeling truly refreshed and nourished.

To make Alma more sustainable, landscape manager Ngo Duc Thinh and his team of green thumbs have transformed parts of the family resort into a 1,000sqm nursery garden, a 260sqm chicken farm, and a 180sqm herb garden.

The resort’s commitment to creating this self-sufficient haven has been nothing short of admirable.

Situated on the northern end of Alma’s grounds, a short walk from the Active Youth Club for teens, the nursery garden is flourishing with bananas, coconuts, papaya, squash, and passionfruit, accompanied by vibrant sunflowers and daisies.

Adjacent to the nursery garden, the chicken farm is currently home to a growing brood of 17 hens, six roosters, and 18 chicks.

Just outside the beachfront restaurant Atlantis, with panoramic views of Long Beach, is the herb garden. Mustard leaves, morning glory, red and green chili peppers, Vietnamese basil, lettuce, green onions, white radish, bok choy as well as tomatoes all thrive in this herb garden.

Enjoy delicious organic food at Alma Resort’s restaurants

All the farm’s produce are delivered to be served at the resort’s restaurants.

Alma Garden restaurant serves bananas, eggs and coconuts in their breakfast while Atlantis offers fresh coconuts as drinks. Lettuce and mustard leaves from the organic farm at the resort also make regular appearances in their salads.

La Casa’s traditional Caprese salad is one-of-a-kind—it combines tomatoes from the resort’s herb garden with locally produced mozzarella cheese for a truly authentic taste!

Leftovers from the resort’s kitchens are used as compost and the farm is watered with recycled water.

Visit Alma Resort’s sustainable and organic farm to experience the ‘farm-to-table’ movement

Complimentary garden tours are on offer for the whole family, with staff sharing fruitful tips on how to cultivate a veggie patch at home.

The children also learn how to care for chickens.

Alma Resort also plans to host cooking classes on the farm, providing guests with the opportunity to pick and clean their own natural ingredients to cook their own healthy meals.

“We feel so proud to be putting our resort’s land to good use by creating our very own farm and embracing the ‘farm to table’ movement; it’s so rewarding for our team of gardeners to see how the kitchen staff love picking produce from the farm and to see guests of all ages take tours of the farm with interest and curiosity,” said Mr. Thinh.

“There’s a lot of talk in the hospitality industry about going green but it’s really important to walk the talk and this is yet another initiative at Alma that helps create a more sustainable holiday for guests,” added Alma’s managing director Herbert Laubichler-Pichler.

Organic farm-to-table luxury and more sustainability practices at Alma Resort

The resort’s ‘hotel as farm’ efforts follow numerous sustainability initiatives including plans to implement Vietnam’s most ambitious solar power project for a hotel yet, and the appointment of a sustainability officer.

In addition to engaging staff in sustainability initiatives across three staff committees focused on ‘green products’, ‘innovation and solutions’, and ‘people and partnerships’, Alma has other measures in place to reduce its carbon footprint including a water treatment plant, an electric buggy station, a recycling system in its garbage room, and the resort’s transition to paperless solutions due to Alma App.

To contact Alma Resort or to make a booking, you may email info@alma-resort.com or call +84 258 399 1666.

All images: credit to Alma Resort Cam Ranh

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