G is for Green

Our resort tries to be very environmentally friendly. There are many things that we do to decrease our footprint as we educate our guests. For starters, we are owned by a Nonprofit Organization. All of our profit goes right back to that Nonprofit, and we, ourselves are therefor, nonprofit.

To see the garden in it's late summer splendor go here.

We grow as much of our own produce that the growing season will allow and everything is organic. This means that when we buy from local farmers, they too have to be organic. We only use local, grass fed meats. And everything else is as local as we can get.

We have a greenhouse to aid us through the short summer months. And we use river irrigation to water the lawns and gardens. We compost as much a we can.

The office uses solar power. This photosynthesis panel produces electricity. (At least I think that's what Adventure Man called it?)

We also use wind power to make electricity for the office. Isn't the little wind turbine cute! We get a lot of wind up here!

The pool water is heated by solar as well as each guest cabin's water.

Our paper products are all from recycled paper. Even bathroom tissue. We offer locally made soaps for  our guests to use, and we give them a full sized bar of soap with the request that they save the box and take it home so we don't have to throw it out.

We use recycled paper plates and plastic wear as well as recycled cups when we have our Volunteer Weekend, to get ready for our opening. We rip these up and compost them. And we recycle everything that can be recycled but can't be composted.

As you can see from these shot's, this is not our prettiest time of year. The snow is just melting and the grass, where we still have it after our well work last fall, is still dead. The leaves have yet to make an appearance.

Bunny in the Garden

Bunny wants to go into the garden. 

She pulls on the gate until I come and unlatch it. 

And she's off! 

She loves it in here and wants to show me everything she finds. 

I go grab a few stems of chard for lunch. (Sshhh! Don't tell the cook!)

This isn't my garden (Even though it's in view of my kitchen window)! 

It's the Ranch's garden. 

The organic veggies they grow here are served to the guests. 

But they have a lot of swiss chard, I love swiss chard!

Bunny comes to get me. 

She wants me to see something.

Is it the onions?

No, not the onions.

Where are we going? 

Oh, is it the squash?

No, not the Squash. 

Is it the rhubarb?

No, not the rhubarb. 

By the way, I have been told to take as much rhubarb as I want! 

It's been taking over this garden for as long as 

the ranch has been planting here! 

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What the heck do you make with rhubarb??? 

What was I doing? Oh yeah, Bunny! 

What did you find?

A ladybug! How Fun!

There were a few beds left unplanted this year and I'm thinking I will ask for one next year as a family plot. We were just too busy this year… will next year be better… probably not! Ha!