Normally you won't see elephants at Wild Rose Meadows Farm, but there was the time an exotic animal park from Dallas, Texas, needed a place for their elephants and tigers to rest for a weekend between shows. We invited them to stay at the farm. Naturally, our grandchildren came to enjoy the unusual guests!

When you visit Wild Rose Meadows, you can expect to see registered Scottish Highland Cattle, Shetland Sheep, alpacas, goats, chickens, ducks, cats, our dog, and perhaps some other farm critters. You probably should not expect to see elephants.

Wild Rose Meadows is a little hobby farm that got completely out of hand. The farm has grown to 180 acres into which we pour our hearts, our time and all of our money. It’s a little slice of heaven a mile long and a quarter mile wide.

Our 1890's farm house and barn are located on the north road, while our other barn is located on the south road a mile away. A beautiful trail winds across the fields and through the woods from one barn to the other.

We are surrounded by hundreds of acres of corn and soybean fields. Visitors tell us we live way out in the sticks. They get off the expressway onto a two lane paved road, turn then onto a gravel road, and then turn again onto yet another gravel road.

When we drive into town the back way, we are only 12 minutes from Meijer, Wal-Mart and Home Depot. We get to the store faster than most of our friends in town. It’s our best kept secret. We don’t want everyone else to move out here!

Wild Rose Meadows is located in Southwest Michigan, 3 miles off US-131 Expressway, about 20 miles north of Kalamazoo, 25 miles south of Grand Rapids, and 25 miles southeast of Holland. The farm encompasses a dozen hay fields including the “hidden field” that only our grandchildren know about, two creeks, quite a lot of woods, and the “enchanted forest” - a tunnel of trees through which we take the grandchildren on hay rides.

We primarily raise Scottish Highland Cattle for breeding stock. The herd totals about 30, with 10 calves born each year.

We also raise grass-fed steers for healthy and delicious freezer beef. A flock of 45 chickens provides lots of fresh eggs. Sheep, goats and alpacas are fleece animals, but we give away the fleece to local fiber artists because we simply don't have time to use the fleece ourselves.

We are grateful and blessed to be entrusted with this jewel of God's creation, and welcome the opportunity to share it with as others who seem to enjoy it as much as we do. Visitors are always welcome at Wild Rose Meadows even on the spur of the moment. For your convenience we suggest calling before you make the trip all the way out to see us.