The Farm at San Benito
A medical wellness farm beneath Mount Malarayat.
The Farm at San Benito takes its name literally. This is a working holistic sanctuary on a tropical estate below Mount Malarayat, where licensed physicians practise functional and integrative medicine, and where much of what heals the guest - the vegetables, the coconuts, the herbs - is grown within sight of the table.
The model joins two things rarely found together: genuine medical supervision, including laboratory diagnostics and nurse-supported programmes, and a wholly plant-based kitchen that has made the estate a pilgrimage for those reversing lifestyle disease. Guests arrive for detox or recovery; many leave having rewritten how they eat.
- Location
- Lipa, Batangas
- Country
- Philippines
- Established
- 2002
- Collection
- Signature Collection
“Food, environment and medicine are one system. The Farm treats disease at its lifestyle roots, pairing functional diagnostics with living food and the estate's own unhurried tropical rhythm.”
Where it stands
On a private estate at Lipa in Batangas province, beneath the forested slopes of Mount Malarayat. Around two hours' drive south of Manila, climbing into cooler air and coconut country.
A guest in mind
For those whose wellness questions are really medical ones. Guests managing metabolic conditions, digestive disorders or post-illness recovery who want physician-led care, and anyone ready to test what a fully plant-based month can do.
The disciplines this house is chosen for.
Holistic Detox & Cleanse
7-14 nightsPhysician-supervised purification with colon hydrotherapy, living food and daily monitoring by the medical team.
Diabetes & Metabolic Recovery
14-28 nightsA functional-medicine programme addressing metabolic disease through diagnostics, plant-based nutrition and movement.
Immune Recovery & Restoration
7-14 nightsPost-illness rebuilding through IV support, nutrition therapy and the estate's restorative environment.
Substancebeneath theserenity.
Licensed integrative and functional-medicine physicians
On-site laboratory diagnostics and nurse-supported care
Colon hydrotherapy, IV therapy and detoxification suites
Nutrition faculty behind a fully plant-based culinary programme
Where you rest
Villas, suites and traditional-inflected pavilions scattered through the palms, from garden rooms to pool villas of considerable privacy. The register is tropical-estate rather than resort - lawns, ponds, resident peacocks.
What nourishes you
Plant-based cuisine of real ambition - much of it raw, nearly all of it grown on or near the estate - proving daily that therapeutic food and celebratory food can be the same plate.
A few frames.
Beyond the programme
Functional-medicine consultation and laboratory assessment
Living-food culinary class in the estate kitchen
Sunrise yoga beneath Mount Malarayat
Guided walk through the estate's organic gardens
Programme stays from approximately US$450 per night including accommodation, plant-based full board and core medical services; multi-week medical programmes quoted on consultation.
All figures are indicative and arranged privately. Your advisor will confirm current programmes, suites and availability on enquiry.
Beforeyou go.
The estate's kitchens are entirely plant-based, and the cuisine is central to the medicine. Most guests find it a revelation rather than a restriction.
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Begin your stayat The Farm.
Share your dates and intentions; your advisor will confirm the programme, the suite and every detail in between - in confidence.