Farm Stay 2025!  

Interested in experiencing what life on a farm is all about?

This year we're excited to extend an invitation to a few students to come and share the experience of life on a budding farm.  This is a first-time adventure for us!  We're eager both to share our place and to learn how we might make it more welcoming as a venue for aspiring farmers in the future.

Our farm (Twelve Mile Ranch) is a wonderful place.  We landed here in 2020 after nearly two decades of searching.  Twelve Mile Ranch is about 300 acres situated in the foothills of the Cascades twelve miles east of Myrtle Creek, OR and runs along about a mile of South Myrtle Creek.  The farm is still very much a work in progress, but right now our main focus is on getting heirloom apple orchards going.  We hope to make cider one day.

This season we'd like to welcome 1-4 people to come and stay at the farm for 1-3 months as individual schedules allow between April and October 2025.  

Here's what we're looking for:

• Active interest in agriculture and an introduction to what life is like on a farm.
• Appreciation for a long-view approach to land stewardship: good for the land, creatures who live there, and for people.
• Ability and interest in helping out a (very) little with some regular chores like watering trees, keeping the yard under control, and tending a vegetable garden that helps feed the farm.
• Desire to connect with quiet places, natural processes, and beginning adventures in self-sufficiency.
• Willingness at the end of your stay to offer thoughtful written reflection and feedback on what your experience meant to you, how we might best continue to welcome others to the farm in the future, and what especially promising futures you might envision for a place like ours.
• A commitment to respectful, drama-free, and responsible co-living.

Here's what what we're offering:

• A place to stay consisting of one of the two extra bedrooms in our very modest farmhouse.
• Shared kitchen access and a pantry stocked with basic staples, like rice, bean, pasta, etc.
• Internet access.
• Informal knowledge sharing around "real farm stuff" like rural water systems, irrigation, safely operating machinery, orcharding, resident plants and animals, using tools to make and fix things, heating with wood, fire safety, etc.
• A world class swimming hole!
• A nice grand piano to play if your inclined.

To explore further, please contact us directly and include a short note sharing why you're interested, when, for how long, etc.  We're happy to answer questions!