水とオリンピックマウンテンの景色を望む静かな10エーカーのヴァションアイランドリトリート

We are based in and split our time between Seattle and Iowa.
We have loved Vashon for at least 20 years and have owned Blue Sky Farm for over 18! We live in the house for at least a month a year and hope to show guests a sense for Vashon life during their stay.

The westside of Vashon Island is the most mild and beautiful part of the island. The fruit grows best there and having both eastern and western light is a special treat. The farm is unusually peaceful. The light is particularly beautiful during the "golden hours" from 4 or 5 pm to 9 pm in the summer.
Our gardens are in a beautiful cottage (read "messy and a bit random") style and will delight visitors, especially if you are a plant and flower lover. If you like fruit, we have over 20 apple trees, eight plum trees, a peach, four to five pear, Asian pear, and six different cherry trees. My favorites are the tart pie cherry trees in late June for jam, pies and scones!
If you love birds, this is a bird's paradise with a variety of habitats consistent with the grasses, woods and flowers of the Pacific Northwest. My favorite is to hike west to the bluff and then explore the NW corner to the second bluff where our resident Barred Owl and hawks live.

Not many of the original homesteading acres of land stand on Vashon as they were in 1910 when a person or family could stake out a strip of 10 acres on the westside, build a dwelling on the land and after five years there, pay a fee for the certificate to own the land. We are the fourth owners of the 10 acres at our address. The first owners, the Reiners grew fruit and had cows on our farm from around 1910 through the 1940's. As the fourth owners, we work to be good stewards of the land, caring for the fruit trees, which include some of the originals.
The barn on the property are each historic in different ways. The main barn was built in 1930. We have just replaced its cedar shake roof, restoring it in its original style and build. The floor is Douglas Fir. It held hay in its upper floors and equipment on its right-hand side. The barn below it was a garage in the 1920's and 1930's and then a chicken and turkey barn. Its unique northside is all windows. The third barn is a two-horse stable with a unique roofing style of the early 1900's for airflow.
The property's inner two acres contain an arboretum of interesting and unique trees as well as garden beds of greenery and color. The property has a rich history and is in one of the most beautiful locations on the island. We live in our house on Vashon about a month a year. We rent our farm so that we can make it available for no or low cost for spiritual and pastoral retreats. It has special qualities which make for a relaxing and peaceful time for all who stay here.
During the pandemic, we booked reservations with at least one day between guests so that we could deeply clean and disinfect between guests to give our guests peace of mind and make our house a haven for each stay. We have continued that approach.