The Green Homestead “Grandma’s House” has welcomed visitors since 2024. It is located in the centre of Bohdanivka village in the Yahotyn community, the birthplace of People’s Artist of Ukraine Kateryna Bilokur.
Inside the walls of an old village house, painted inside and out with floral motifs of viburnum, mallow, morning glory, poppies and sunflowers, a folk museum has been created. Here you can see authentic items of Ukrainian everyday life from the last century, towels, paintings, benches and chests, some more than 100 years old.
In the wide yard, enclosed by a willow-twig fence, there are flower beds, a mini pond, a mini windmill, a swing and relaxation areas. In summer, vegetables typical of village garden beds are grown here, and various medicinal herbs are sown: lemon balm, mint, chamomile, calendula. On a small plot of wheat the hosts hold the harvest-end rituals and make the first sheaf of the new harvest. In the yard there is a kabytsia – a stove with a hob, where in the warm season you can cook various dishes.
At the homestead everyone has the chance to relax amid the atmosphere of rural Ukrainian folk traditions and to experience the colour of folk rites such as Andriivski Vechornytsi, Christmas, Ivan Kupala, Kolodii, a Ukrainian folk wedding and others.
Here you can enjoy herbal teas, buy tea blends, as well as elderberry jam and honey from the owners’ own apiary, and handmade items – clay jewellery and rattan planters.
Grandma’s House welcomes guests for a one-day stay only.
Everyone who crosses the threshold of the house, filled with the smell of dried herbs, will feel as cosy as if visiting their grandmother – organised groups and families alike.
At the homestead of Vitalii Ovsiienko – a volunteer and director of the charitable organisation “Charitable Foundation “Centre for the Recovery of Ukraine’s Warriors” – soldiers are treated with special attention. That is why soldiers who have come on short leave, and their family members, are always welcome here.
