Thirty-seven acres where the whole system gets tested.
Every index OWW measures has to be true somewhere first. The ranch is where food, space, textiles, and the field between people stop being a framework and start being a place you can stand in.
WorkshopMaking & repair
CabinResidence
Main DomeGathering & kitchen
Fitness DomeTraining & recovery
BathhouseShowers & sauna
PasturesMerino sheep
Crop RowsOrchard & growing beds
Resonance CircleFire & gathering
SolarOff-grid power
Domes for gathering, training, and washing. Rows for growing. Pasture for Merino sheep and goats. A fire circle at the center, because a place where people sit down together is the only way REI gets built into a landscape.
You can't publish a standard you've never lived inside.
Every rubric OWW writes gets tested here first. Not as marketing — as the place the framework has to survive contact with weather, soil, animals, and a season that doesn't care about your plan.
Grown, not sourced
Orchard and growing beds. The shortest possible distance between soil and plate, which is the highest score the food index can reach.
Fiber from the animal
Merino sheep on pasture. Wool traced from the animal to the finished textile — the full chain the clothing index asks about.
Built to the rubric
Structures designed against the same measures we score hotels on. Air, light, water, sound, materials — from the drawing, not as a retrofit.
A fire and a circle
The one index with no instrument. It needs a place where people gather without a screen between them, which is a design decision, not an accident.
Built in phases. Honestly reported.
This is a working homestead in progress, not a resort taking bookings. Here's the actual state of it.
Land & entity
The parcel secured near St. Johns and held by OWW Ranch LLC. Scouted in person, walked, and chosen for water access, elevation, and quiet.
Agricultural operations
Orchard planting, growing beds, and the first Merino flock. Agricultural funding pathways in progress.
Structures
The residential cabin first, then the domes — gathering, fitness, and bathhouse. Every structure built against the OWW rubric rather than retrofitted to it.
The first certified property we own
The ranch scored under the same standard we hold hotels to, published breakdown and all. If the rubric is real, it has to be survivable by the people who wrote it.
Retreat & practitioner training
Where practitioners come to certify, and where the framework gets taught in the place it was proven.
Land doesn't expire, doesn't get acquired, and doesn't care what the market did this quarter.
The ranch isn't a product. It's the part of OWW that outlives everything else — held, not sold, and passed down rather than exited.
Start with your own scoreOWW Ranch is a working homestead and production base in development. Renderings are concept illustrations of the planned site and do not depict existing structures. The ranch is not currently open to the public and is not accepting retreat bookings.