Vita Isola Leisure Farm

Overview

Vita Isola Leisure Farm — the name borrows the Spanish/Italian for “island life” — is a roughly one-hectare organic farm, aqua-farm, restaurant, and small resort property in Barangay Ubojan on Sandingan Island, Loon. Boholano couple Raymond and Janeth Roldan, owners of the Visayas-wide telecom retail chain Save N’ Earn, built and opened it in 2018 as an expansion of what started as a retirement rest house. The property runs an organic vegetable and herb garden grown without chemicals or pesticides, an aquaculture operation raising bangus (milkfish), kitong, pompano, and abalone, native-breed farm animals — chickens, turkeys, goats, quails, rabbits — and the on-site Casa Boholano restaurant, which serves Visayan dishes built from the farm’s own produce and fresh seafood. A two-bedroom guesthouse, La Casita, handles overnight stays, with an infinity pool and kayaking into the adjacent mangrove.

Location

Barangay Ubojan, Sandingan Island, Loon, Bohol. Loon faces the Camotes Sea/Cebu Strait and is known for the heritage Nuestra Señora de la Luz Church. Sandingan Island is connected to the Loon mainland via the Tajang Causeway.

Getting There

From Tagbilaran City, travel by bus or van toward Loon (approximately 45–60 minutes). From Loon Market (Mercado de Loon), ride a tricycle or habal-habal to Vita Isola Leisure Farm on Sandingan Island.

Practical Info

• Contact: 0910 505 0277; info@vitaisola.com.ph (per the Bohol provincial tourism office directory)
• Reservations: Recommended in advance, as the property limits daily guest numbers.
• Entrance/day-visit fee: Not consistently published. Older visitor blogs cite a figure around Php 200, but this is not confirmed as current — contact the farm directly (see phone/email above) to confirm today’s rate before visiting.

What to Expect

Visitors join a guided walk through the organic garden, picking herbs and vegetables under supervision, then move through the native-animal pens and the aquaculture ponds. The infinity pool and mangrove kayaking round out the day, with a farm-to-table Visayan meal at Casa Boholano to close it. Overnight stays run through the two-bedroom La Casita guesthouse.

Vita Isola’s founders built the property on capital from a business with no connection to farming or tourism — Save N’ Earn, the telecom retail chain the Roldans operate across the Visayas — which makes the farm a case of outside capital diversifying into agritourism rather than a farming family expanding its own land. Starting the operation from a retirement rest house in 2018 is also a fairly recent addition to Sandingan Island’s economy, arriving well after the causeway connection made the island practical to develop and visit by land.

Running the vegetable and herb garden without chemicals or pesticides is a deliberate operating choice rather than a marketing label — an input decision that shapes the aquaculture side too, since chemical runoff from a conventional farm would work against the abalone, bangus, and other species raised in the same compound’s ponds. Raising bangus, kitong, pompano, and abalone alongside native-breed chickens, turkeys, goats, quails, and rabbits gives the farm a genuine working diversification model, distinct from the single-crop coconut and small-scale fishing economy that supports most other households on Sandingan Island and along the Loon coast generally.

Notes

• Loon is also accessible by ferry from Cebu (Tubigon port is roughly 15 km north).
• Other Loon/Sandingan Island attractions include Basdacu Beach, Danicop-Ticugan Springs, Rock Island Cove, and Hugot Road (all on or near Sandingan Island/the Loon mainland).
• Information about Vita Isola Leisure Farm — Guide to the Philippines, accessed 2026-07-17.
• Boholano couple creates stunning resort facility in Vita Isola — Bohol Tribune, accessed 2026-07-17.
• Loon — Behold Bohol (Bohol provincial tourism office), accessed 2026-07-17 (contact details).