Life on an Oregon farm
Oregon’s Willow-Witt Ranch reintroduces harried Americans to the simple pleasures of farm life, said Jessica Garrison in the Los Angeles Times. Set in a meadow within the Cascade Mountain range, not far from the town of Ashland, the ranch is one of more than 25 farms in Oregon that offer overnight stays. Visits are accompanied by free tutorials in “how to milk a goat, approach a horse, and talk to a piglet.” I arrived with my husband and children and checked into a “charming studio” with a sleeping loft, a wood stove, a full kitchen, and “enough board games to occupy our family for months.” From our window, we saw “frolicking goats,” chickens, horses, and pigs roaming around a farmyard canopied by a “dense forest of white fir, ponderosa pine, and Douglas fir.” By the next morning, we’d already “found ourselves falling into the rhythm of farm life, waking as the sun began to rise over the trees.”
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