Hydrangea Ranch
2023 Life Changing Switzerland Trip. Purchase of Alderbrook Golf Course.
2023 was a big year for us. With some partners we purchased the Alderbrook Golf Course which was closed for 1.5 years with threat of being turned into development. See golf course website at www.themook.com. We tripled the amount of golf played in the first year from prior owners best year ever and quadrupled the […]
2022 Completion of Big Barn.
2022 was earmarked by the completion of the “Big Barn”. The Big Barn is our farm recreational event center with a commercial kitchen. We served about 500 kids this summer via the Ultimook Running Camp. He had 2.5 events on our farm each week from the 2nd week of May through the third week in […]
Nina graduates from THS, Big Barn construction, farm recovers from Covid, & labor restructuring.
In 2021 we progressed with the construction of the “Big Barn” and the main wedding venue. The main wedding venue includes the pavilion. Plans are for a dance floor connecting the two structures with a pizza oven/fireplace and outdoor kitchen. In June our baby girl Nina Zweifel graduated from Tillamook High School. The next day […]
January & February breaking records, March and April 10% of normal. Covid Sucks.
What can be said about 2020? We had our best January in the history of our business. After about 8 years of selling flowering branches, we hit the Chinese New Year perfectly. Mind you it came from a lifetime of working hard on sales and tough lessons, but January and February were for the record […]
Finish small barn, planing bigger barn for commercial kitchen & events center.
We finish the small barn just in time for the 2019 Kilchis River Pumpkin Patch & Corn Maze. It is a great addition to our pumpkin patch. It was built using modified post and beam methods with wood milled from my father’s farm and rocks gathered from the shores of the Kilchis River. See gallery […]
