42 Acres
Thu 09 Jul - Sun 12 Jul 2026

The Happy Pear – Revitalising Plant-Powered Retreat

Join The Happy Pear, Dave and Stephen Flynn, for fun and inspiration! Plant-based cooking demos, yoga, nature & relaxation with delicious food, and community.
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Join The Happy Pear, Dave and Stephen Flynn, for a few days of fun and inspiration! Plant-based cooking demos, yoga, nature & relaxation with delicious food, and community. In other words: All-round good times with Dave and Stephen, and some of The Happy Pear Tribe.

This retreat will celebrate all the things The Happy Pear love so much – community, laughter, yoga, movement, delicious plant-powered meals made with organic produce & wild-foraged ingredients from 42 Acres’ regenerative estate,  with cooking demos by Dave & Steve.

There will be workshops on how to cook more plant-based foods, and talks on how we stay vibrantly happy and healthy — all while leaving time to enjoy delicious food and simply relax together in the beautiful regenerative gardens, ancient forest, 7-acre lake, and wild sauna at 42 Acres!

Room Options

42 Acres is a wellbeing retreat centre, regenerative farm and nature reserve. We offer range of elegant, eco-powered accommodation to suit a variety of budgets. Every room has beautiful views over either our ancient woodland or regenerative estate. You’ll find snug beds and luxurious linens for peaceful sleep. Our bathrooms are modern with responsibly sourced toiletries and soft towels.

Tickets are sold per room. If you’d like to share your room with a lover or friend there is an additional fee to cover workshops and meals. Add this to your ticket when you book.

Terms & Conditions

https://www.42acres.com/terms-and-conditions-packages/

 

About the hosts

42 Acres

The Happy Pear

We’re identical twins Dave & Steve, technically we are mirror twins also, Dave is right handed and right footed and Steve left handed and left footed! Anyhow, we grew up in Greystones, Co. Wicklow the eldest of 4 boys. As identical twins we were super competitive! This meant by the time we were 19 we were playing semi professional rugby, we both played baseball for Ireland, We played off 2 & 3 handicap in golf and we did modelling as it was a good way to meet girls!! At that time we ate a standard meat and 2 veg diet and loved drinking beer with our rugby friends.

After studying business in college, in 2001, aged 21 we went travelling separately to see what else life had on offer. Steve went to Canada to be a snowboard instructor and Dave went to South Africa to become a golf professional. Within a couple of weeks we both independently became plant based and gave up alcohol and got very interested in spirituality and food. We spent the next couple of years travelling around the world delving deep into these 2 new interests from meditation centres to permaculture farms, organic biodynamic farms, alternative community, rainbow gatherings. Then in 2003 Steve called up Dave and asked him if we wanted to help start a ‘food revolution’! This was the seed of The Happy Pear.

Fast forward almost 20 years and the mission is still the same, to create a healthier, happier world and build community! Now The Happy Pear has 3 main business units that all serve the same goal of helping people to eat more veg!

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The Happy Pear – Revitalising Plant-Powered Retreat

From

Thu 09 Jul 2026 15:00

Until

Sun 12 Jul 2026 14:00

Hosts

The Happy Pear

Location

42 Acres, Holt Road, Witham Friary, Frome BA11 5HL
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