mystery trip day3

On the last day at the ranch, we took a farm tour.

(Milo was still sick and could not join us...)

We saw goats were milked.

We visited the pigs.

There, he got a mission:

"catch the escaped rooster who now is in the pig field."

And he actually did it so easily. 

They transfer the rooster in the chicken field,

but he started fighting with other rooster,

so Silas got another mission:

"catch the rooster again."

This time, it was not so easy!

They did it anyway.

It was pretty fun highlight at the end of our stay there.

If Milo and Keena felt better, our stay could be way better, of course.

However, our stay was still pretty fabulous.

Silas was super happy

and seemed to be inspired by the owner Suzzane and other farmers a lot!

Oh someday, we would like to have something like this place...

mystery trip day2

Good morning, sunshine!

Good morning, happy girl.

When outside turned this bright (around 9:00,)

Those two had already used up their energy and needed to take a nap.

Milo still had no appetite and super low energy,

and now Keena started acting a little sick too.

Oh boy, to be clear, this was our birthday mystery trip...

While the kids were taking a nap,

Silas helped their farmers and harvested some vegetables for their CSA delivery.

Then Milo woke up, and we all visited their chickens.

Also, we collected lots of eggs.

We also visited the pigs

but they were a little to aggressive to sick Milo.

Around the lunch time,

we picked some leafy vegetables for our lunch and berries.

We stopped by to say hello to them too.

Keena did not want to share her mama with this baby goat at all!

How cute was that!?

The ranch had some different accommodation options,

a farm house cabin, a big meow house, and canvas tents camping area.

This was one of their canvas tents.

We drove up the hill

(we could not hike up with two sick kids)

to see the ranch from the above as well as Mt. Shasta.

What a dream place it was!

Milo took our photo there

(although he did not capture any view from them...)

We came back to the ranch, and checked their field out.

This was their solar house.

They provided and used their own solar energy.

Just being there made us so happy.

Silas and Yuri loved their goat (or simply goats in general),

so we visited them again and again...

Pretty much only on of those ones was photogenic.

At the end, Silas visited his brother.

This ranch had pretty very close to what we would like to have in our future!

mystery trip day1

Milo had been really sick for the last 3 days.

He did not want to eat anything (even some apple sauce),

and had been back and forth between the bathroom and his bed room.

Today, we supposed to leave our house early in the morning for the mystery trip 

Silas had planned as the birthday trip.

We had several family meetings in we would go to the trip or cancel...

and at the end, 

we took off.

After 4+ hours of drive, 

we arrived this place.

Willow Witt Ranch,

44o acre off-the-grid farm in the beautiful hidden valley located a little east of Ashland.

They had gardens full of seasonal vegetables, tons of goats, pigs, chickens, and some farm dogs.

We could get fresh milk, eggs, and meat from their animals.

They had a garden full of seasonal vegetables, and we could harvest, purchase and cook them.

After Milo took his first nap at the ranch, we went to the garden

to obtain some of our dinner ingredients.

Those were our farmers:

We walked around the farm a little bit,

but Milo did not have enough energy to continue our farm tour.

Oh poor Milo...

At least, we could enjoy this view.