October 2025

We have a new tenant at Lost Creek Canyon Ranch, and we're thrilled to break the news.  The Southern California Mini-Horse Sanctuary has relocated from Hemet to our Middle Ranch area and taken over about a dozen acres.  Their critters include miniature horses, donkeys, and cattle, alpacas, emus, guinea fowl, and more.  Jeannie is the on-site owner there and we will be adding a tour of her menagerie to our own in a newly available combined tour.  It's like your own private zoo.  Throughout  all the Coachella Valley, there's nothing else like it.

Just like your hair, everything grows a little faster in the summer time so it was time for a hoof trimming from our friend Chad French from the high desert.  We wouldn't say the goats were appreciative of their pedicures, but, hey, they're goats.  In any event, they'll now be ready for fall with a lower chance of hoof trouble.

If you like pomegranates as much as we do - and our tree-ripened pomegranates are WAY better than those you buy in a store - you might want to head this way next fall and pick a bag of your own. Our dozen pomegranate trees all had bumper crops this year and we still have some hanging fruit going into November. Linda and the crew have been picking, seeding, and juicing all month long, and we are now stocked for the winter with pomegranate juice and jelly. Our Mexican lime trees have been productive too.

With the winter tour season almost upon us, we recently added another Bobcat all-terrain vehicle to our mix of ranch rolling stock.  It's a diesel-powered four-wheel-drive model and joins our original Bobcat as transportation for ranch staff and small tour groups. Thanks to Inland Bobcat for working with us to get that.  For tours up to 10, we still have our original military surplus Hummer, and riding in that is an experience all its own.