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California Farm
Stays
Description:
You cannot be closer
to the heart of the countryside than when you stay
on a farm. Farmers are the rural custodians of our
great landscapes, and farm stays are the perfect
way to experience it. Many working farms in
California include bed and breakfast accommodations
from cottages to beautifully converted barns and
farm buildings that are ideal for families,
especially if you want to get everyone involved
with farms in action. Here are just a few selected
working farms that offer stays:
Morning
Song Farm:
Enjoy farm fun and
animal interaction at Southern California's Morning
Song Farm. Five farmstays to choose from, all with
views, private hottubs, and full kitchens. Walk the
20 acre organic farm or learn cheese making/butter
churning, gather eggs, make jam or hand-cranked ice
cream. Meet a friendly herd of goats, chickens,
alpacas and peacocks. Central to wine country,
Santa Margarita River hiking, ballooning, and all
that Southern Cali has to offer.
Farm
House Inn, Sonoma
County:
Their new barn
rooms sit back on the site of the inn's original
barn and are built to resemble the many historic
barns and water towers dotting Sonoma's vineyards
and hillsides.
Located in a
wooded grove, these rooms blur the lines between
the indoors and out. Large doors and windows onto
private decks tucked into mature trees create a
sense of perfect privacy and
tranquility.
Willow
Creek Agricultural Farm at Mountain
Ranch:
Give your family a "real farm
experience!” Bring them to an old fashioned
“get your hands dirty” Willow Creek Ranch
Agricultural Farm Stay at Mountain Ranch,
California. It's a vacation on a farm where guests
get up close and personal with farm animals, feed
them hay, gather eggs and do other farm chores as
needed just like in “the good old days.”
For an extra fee you can add breakfast and/or
dinner.
Flip
Flop Ranch, Lucerne
Valley:
Discover farming
and how your food is produced! Get away from the
stresses of the city and out into the country on a
real working farm. Flip Flop Ranch specializes in
raising endangered heritage livestock. For example,
their Cotton Patch Geese are critically endangered
with only a few hundred left. Many of their guests
return year after year and have become dear
friends. Maybe it’s the home-cooked meals or
the novelty of a genuine, working farm. Perhaps it
is the allure of the peace and quiet of the quiet
desert or the chance to milk a goat! Flip Flop
Ranch boasts that they are very child-focused, but
there is plenty of fun to be had for adults here
too.
Philo
Apple Farm, Anderson
Valley:
The Apple Farm's appealing cottages are
plunked in the middle of a Mendocino County
orchard. The farmstand will keep you supplied with
apples, jams, and chutneys; nearby is the
valley’s prime collection of wineries.
Cottages are often reserved for cooking
classes.
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