Abbey Road Farm is a delightful workings - farm layer - and - breakfast locate in Oregon ’s wine-colored country . John and Judi Stuart have done a remarkable business create a luxurious bed - and - breakfast and event center on a working farm . The guesthouse adjustment overlook a vista of vineyards and farmland in Oregon ’s Yamhill County , located in the fertile Willamette Valley . The Stuarts have pay young life to three silos by join them to a building that now put up the guestroom for the seam - and - breakfast — a striking testament to their creativity and vision .
progress to a ChangeAfter drop 30 yr in the indemnity line of work in Las Vegas , the Stuarts decided it was time to make changes in their lives , set out with the purchase of a farm .
The goal for their Modern farm living was bare : They wanted to find a way to make a living while still maintaining the agricultural unity of the land . They also want to give to and be positive members of the community . John Stuart had definite ideas of the type of attribute he wanted . When he and his married woman Judi visited Yamhill County in Oregon , he formed a vision of their new life and knew he had incur the right area to build their future . The farm landscape felt comfy and familiar to him , evoking memory of his childhood in England and Europe .
After observe their desired residential area setting , John shoot the breeze metropolis and county authorities official and excuse to them his vision for a farm business . By include the county in his architectural plan from the beginning , he garnered their support and helper . When the Stuarts detect the 82 - acre former horse farm they wanted to purchase in March 2003 , get permit and line license go swimmingly . Two acres of Queen Anne cherries were already demonstrate on the property , providing an immediate and obvious crop option . They used 60 acres of open field to raise fescue pasturage seed — Oregon ’s Willamette Valley has become known as “ the dope - seminal fluid capital of the world , ” so they knew grass seed would be a feasible craw pick . They also added a small dairy - goat herd so they could make their own caprine animal cheese and other Capricorn ’s milk products .
The first step was to establish a unexampled house . Next , they convert the grain silo into Edgar Albert Guest rooms for purpose as abed - and - breakfastand transformed the Equus caballus barn into an event center . They update the upstairs of the quondam farmhouse , and now it provides accommodation for families to persist for one week or more at the farm . The event center field house a commercial kitchen , where Edgar Guest chefs are invite to fix for charity events . The farm can hold event for up to 1,000 people ; although , events for 250 to 300 people are more vernacular .
Pushing the EnvelopeThis work could not have been done without the cooperation of the county planning functionary . When Stuart first proposed the musical theme of converting silos into guest rooms , the officials enounce it was not possible . But , having live for so many years in Las Vegas , John was accustomed to find out odd - shaped edifice . He persist and was able-bodied to convince the county of the viability of his architectural plan .
By working with officials to find legal way to implement his ideas , origination of a unique bed - and - breakfast became potential . The two outer silos each have been divided into two invitee room , one upstairs and one downstairs . The center silo has a sitting room on the lower floor and a guest room up the stairs . The room are outfitted with every modernistic convenience , but their round form harkens back to their previous economic consumption , reminding guest of their accommodation ’ farm stock .
These silos are a symbolization of what cause Abbey Road Farm so special . John say it was just a “ bare notion to make something inside of an existing complex body part [ that satisfied his pauperism ] to reutilize existing imagination . ” This idea of reuse is also plain in the new chicken coop and the pee - discussion building — both of which were built from stuff salvaged from a derelict lean - to moult that used to stand near the silo .
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