About Us
Our Story
Three Pheasants Boutique Bed and Breakfast in Gotland was established in early 2018 by a diverse team of passionate travelers with a shared love for food, culture, and new experiences: Jerry, Josefina, Paolo, and Karthi.
Now, we—Monika Gutestam Hustus (Swedish born) and Hunter Hustus (born in the US)—are taking over the reins. We’ve spent years living and traveling across the globe, from Asia to the Americas, and we bring these experiences, stories, music and our love of food to Three Pheasants. As the core team running the day-to-day operations, we also bring our collected treasures and antiques to decorate the property, continuing to create a warm, welcoming environment for our guests.
Our philosophy and mission remain simple: provide seriously comfy, snug accommodation and tasty, down-to-earth food—either grown right on the property or sourced from nearby—while creating a setting where everyone feels at home. Whether you're a global wanderer, a family with children, a couple on honeymoon, a writer in need of peace and inspiration, or anyone else—come stay with us, share your story, and we'll gladly share a few of ours!
The Property
Three Pheasants Boutique B&B is housed in a charming 100-year-old wooden house, surrounded by a sprawling garden full of fruit trees. Behind the main house, you'll find a large (and ever-growing!) veggie garden where much of our dinner menu is picked fresh each day. We also have an old limestone side house that may one day host additional rooms for our guests, as well as a spacious stone barn. The whole property spans around 2 hectares, and you'll often spot a couple of gorgeous horses grazing in the back field (they love apples and carrots—just a heads-up!).
We're nestled next to a dairy farm to the west, so don't be surprised if you wake up to the gentle sound of cows mooing! Ekeby "socken" (parish) is right in the heart of rural, idyllic Gotland—a truly non-touristic part of the island where local farmers work the fields, and cows, horses, and sheep graze in the meadows.
Why the Name "Three Pheasants"?
When Jerry and Jo were searching for a place to start their dream project on Gotland, the name "Three Pheasants" came to them in an unexpected moment. After they had just arrived on the island, with its cold winter weather a world away from their normal subtropical home, they sat together in the largely unfurnished house, sipping hot cups of tea. As they pondered what to name this new B&B, they glanced out the window. As afternoon turned to night, three pheasants appeared in the garden, pecking sunflower seeds beneath the trees. It felt like the perfect sign, and thus, Three Pheasants was born!
Sustainability and Ecology
Our approach since the day we decided to build this business was to reduce our impact in all aspects that we cover. From the wood and materials we used in renovating and restoring the building, to how we design your breakfast or even to how we grow the food we serve at the property.
Food and Soil is a central to what we do and our focus is on low impact, sustainable and regenerative farming methods. This means for the food grown on the property we use no chemicals, pesticides or herbicides as this encourages a healthy self sustaining microbiological soil system which can do all the work that additive based farming tries to emulate. We also do not plough the soil as this releases CO2 into the atmosphere and we try to integrate all of our activities with the least impact to our surroundings. If you want to learn more about this type of farming we recommend you watch Kiss The Ground on Netflix.
Water on Gotland is critical not only to the people on the island but also the fauna, flora and various birds and bugs that create a healthy functioning ecosystem. Plus it's interesting to note that Gotland had hundreds of natural small and large lakes up until around mid 20th Century, Which was key for the masses of migrating birds. Then as farming became more necessary on the island the land was drained and with it the lakes and natural habitats for local and migrating bird numbers went with it.
So, with this in mind with the help of EU funding/miljöinvestering (environmental investing), we built a dam in late 2021. The dam and its surroundings will become a both an ecosystem habitat for birds, frogs, insects and more as well as provide irrigation for the food we grow and the beginnings of a food forest that we aim to establish in the coming years.