Tired of the usual tourist traps or the same places you keep visiting with your children?  Here are some out of the ordinary local farms to go to instead.  Your trips will be educational, I guarantee.

Rossee Possee Acres Elk Farm.  Working elk farm, petting zoo located in Molalla.  32690 South Mathias Road, Molalla, OR.  97038.  Check on hours before heading out.

The Willamette Egg Farm.  One of the leading producers of shell eggs and processed egg products in the Pacific Northwest.  Open to the public on Tuesdays and Thursdays @ 10 a.m.  Located between Canby, Molalla and Woodburn.  Egg processing plant.  31348 S. Hwy 170, Canby, Oregon.  (503-651-0000).  Did the chicken come before the egg? Or..?

Magness Tree Farm.  An internationally recognized 80-acre demonstration forest and outdoor education site. Includes a large natural area, stream, 9 forest management zones, 2.5 miles of hiking trails, the historic “Clatskanie” fire tower, recreation field, picnic shelter and rustic log cabins for youth group camping, outdoor schools, and retreats. Open daily. Free to the public, a charge for group tours. Guided tours every Sunday at 2:00.

Alpenrose Dairy.  Portland’s popular kids’ attraction and working dairy since the nineteenth century. Florian Cadonau, who in 1891, owned a dairy farm near what is now Southwest Thirty-fifth and Vermont in the heart of West Portland.

Southern Oregon Souay Sheep Farm. British Soay sheep are being kept in the US as part of a global conservation effort to preserve this historical archive, with all of its diversity, as an undiluted genetic reservoir for the future.  Southern Oregon Soay Farms, P.O. Box 1382, Merlin, Oregon 97532 kathiem@soayfarms.com (541) 955-8171.

Oregon Oyster Farm.  Since 1907, the oldest oyster farm at the Oregon coast at Yaquina Bay.  Oysters in the Shell, Oyster Meat, Oyster Cocktails, Smoked Oysters, Steamer Clams, and More!  6878 Yaquina Bay Rd., Newport, Oregon 97365 (541) 265-5078.

Zenger Farm. A working urban farm promoting sustainable food practices, youth education, environmental stewardship, and community and economic development.  11741 S.E. Foster Road, Portland, Oregon  (503) 282-4245. 

Pholia Goat Farm. Farmstead handmade raw milk aged goat cheese.  Wine tasting, hay rides, baby goats, milking for the kids and cheese tasting.   Classes on cheesemaking too. 9115 W. Evans Creek Rd., Rogue River, Oreon 97537 (541) 582-2883).

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