The front ten of our twenty acres include two small rental homes and a native tree nursery. The back ten acres incorporate our home, an orchard, a vineyard, goat pasture, greenhouse, gazebo, art studio, carpentry shop and exercise room (elliptical trainer and rowing machine and weight bench), other farm buildings, extensive gardens, a couple of hiking trails, and a photovoltaic system providing about two-thirds of the electricity both for the bed and breakfast operation as well as the two rental houses. An article about the energy system authored by Sandy is in the July 2008 issue of Home Power Magazine.

In the summer and fall Barb's vegetable gardens are bountiful enough to provide much of the produce for our meals and our guests. Ornamental gardens distinguish many parts of the property as well. The rhododendron is our state plant, and we have many sited about the property.

While we cannot yet consider ourselves serious birders, there is an incredible amount of wildlife on the property. We have four barn owl boxes spaced around the property and usually there is nesting taking place in at least two in a given year. There are thirty swallow boxes mounted on various buildings. Even a partial listing of other species seen would include grosbeaks, ravens, red-tailed hawks, northern harriers, bald eagles, flickers, pileated woodpeckers, and a number of finches, including our state bird the goldfinch. South of here in the Skagit flats is one of the premier hawk-watching areas in North America in the winter, with prairie falcons, peregrine falcons, gyrfalcons, kestrels and others.