Email: Tom Griffin
Grandma's Cottage Bed & Breakfast
 | Grandma's Cottage Bed & Breakfast |
Grandma’s Cottage Bed and Breakfast is an 1892 Victorian Home located in the Shenandoah Valley in the Civil War village of Port Republic. Grandma’s Cottage Bed and Breakfast offers a two story cottage or a cozy country room in the main house. Special features include train collections, gardens, and relaxation. Grandma’s Cottage is committed to environmental excellence and works to minimize environmental impacts whenever possible.
Green Lodging Activities:
When visiting Grandma's Cottage Bed & Breakfast, you can expect the following practices:
- Provides optional linen service in rooms
- Offers recycling opportunities to guests
- Practices water & energy conservation
- Offers a green events/conference package
- Low flow restrictors and low flow toilets
- Wash, rinse and dry all dishes by hand
- Preventative maintenance of drips and leaks
- High efficiency HVAC using natural gas and individual thermostats
- Natural lighting design, open and close shades for temperature regulation
- Lighting sensors
- High efficiency compact fluorescent lighting
- EnergyStar computers, appliances, etc
- Insulation and storm windows
- Directional lighting outdoors
- Integrated pest management plan in place
- Capture and use of storm water for irrigation via rain barrels
- Minimization of impervious surfaces
- Effectively timed application of organic fertilizers
- Use of native vegetation
- Use of glasses, dishware, etc instead of disposables
- Paper, cardboard, can, bottle, newspaper, and scrap metal recycling
- Optional free papers (not delivered automatically to the room)
- Use citrus-based cleaners
- Effective food inventory management and bulk purchasing
- Low toxicity cleansers
- Composting of food wastes
- Donation of excess food
- Water efficient washers – those that reuse or filter wash waters
- Hang most laundry outside to dry
- Environmentally-friendly detergents with minimal use of bleach
- Linen segregation for lightly soiled loads
- Purchase of recycled content paper
- Purchase of durable/well-made products w/long life
- Purchase of energy-efficient equipment
- Policies for 2-sided copying and printing
- Extensive use of electronic documents and records
- Purchasing from vendors with commitment to the environment
- Minimize/reuse packaging wastes
- Preventative maintenance on all vehicles and equipment
- Eliminating use of aerosols
- Recycling of vehicle fluids
- Use of latex paints
- Reuse/donation of unused materials
- Effective system of storage, labeling and handling of materials
- Reused building materials (vintage flooring, beams, stonework, fixtures)