The intention was simply to uncover what was already there. The result, opened in September 2025, is ten rooms inside a 17th-century building that feels carefully exhumed. Most masía renovations sand history away - walls too smooth, light too even. Off Grid moves in the other direction. Walls were stripped back to their oldest limewash, which lets the stone breathe. The tiles came hand-cut from La Bisbal d'Empordà, the ceramic capital of the region. Reclaimed terracotta on the floors, local stone in the sinks. Original furniture - desks, armchairs, paintings - was stripped, reupholstered, and put back where it had always been. "More than refurbishment, we did an unfinishing," Berta says, standing in the largest suite.

The sourcing follows the same logic outside the building. Mattresses from Sivana, a small workshop in Murcia making beds entirely from natural fabrics - wool, linen, cotton, threading included. Sivana cannot supply large hotels; many of its employees can't work in conventional environments because they were born with allergies that prevent contact with chemicals or pollution. Bed linen from BeKume in Mataró, organic cotton woven for the softness of a t-shirt rather than the starched crispness hotels default to. Bathroom products from Olively in Andorra, started during the pandemic by a former professional golfer who returned to her family's olive grove. Scents from Shizen'na, a Girona perfumer working only with essential oils. "I didn't know I was looking for them," Berta says, "but there they were."

The thing that stays with you afterwards is the silence. Off Grid is full when we visit, or close to it - guests in the pool, guests at the long table, guests on bikes coming up the lane - and somehow none of it makes any noise. You sit at the edge of the pool with the house at your back and you can hear, in this order: the wind, an insect, water moving somewhere, your own breath. The estate has a kind of acoustic geometry that absorbs sound without making the place feel empty. Plenty of rural hotels go quiet at night. Few stay this quiet at lunchtime.

Breakfast spreads slowly by the pool whenever you're ready. The kitchen sources at KM0 - almost everything from within one or two kilometres, plus the permaculture garden, in its second season and starting to deliver. Dinners happen family-style at the long table when guests want them. Gerard has mapped more than thirty cycling routes from the door, through the foothills the Girona pros train on. The Costa Brava is thirty-five minutes away, Cadaqués an hour, the French border just over.

Berta is, as she puts it, learning constantly. Three speeds of compost. Why orange peels need to stay separate. Why eggshells go in a pile of their own. "It's not for us," she says, of the wider work. "It's for those to come."