Flying Z Ranchette

If you have found our website then you  probably know us and have been out to the place where things can be busy and seemingly moving slow at the same time.  It is only 5 acres but it is 5 acres of busy fun.   Wandering around you may see a loose rabbit or two, beef cattle in the summer, chickens that vary from meat producers, egg producers, and curious non-producers(CNP's).  The CNP's are  the chickens that I question  their participation around here.  In past years we have raised lambs for butcher, too many rabbits to count that eventually were given away and now thinking about Goats for fun.  You know the rabbits reproduce when you aren't paying attention.  "Mom, dad, we have a problem there are baby rabbits in  with the males!".  Yep we did have a problem those weren't all males.  

Anyway, you get the picture, you've probably been here and witnessed the ebb and flow of the place.  We feel that we are experiencing the last of this life that the immediate Bend area will see.  Small farms will continue to disappear as  the march of development moves to outer boundaries of  private ownership eventually someday consuming all private lands in Deschutes county.  

Have fun and explore.  Our website is intended to share our experiences and hopefully encourage you to also take advantage of the life that you are living, take a deep breath, breathe it in and let it roll.... .after all, this is our one time around.

A nice little sampling of my YouTube channel