8th Annual Spring Tour

The Visiting Nurses Foundation invites the public to join them for their 8th Annual Spring Home Tour as they explore five "Gentleman’s Farms". The tour will be held on Saturday June 20th and last from 10 AM to 4 PM. For those who wish to experience our Lewis Coutny roots, you will enjoy the variety of cattle, tree and agriculural farms on this year’s tour. Start with the Newaukum Valley Ranch which is a working cattle ranch whose owners support our local famers and 4-H projects. Have milk and cookies with the Dairy Ambassador of Lewis County while enjoying country music. Delight in a Tree Farm with spectacular territorial views and a huge barn in which the second story is converted into the owner’s home. Visitors will also enjoy blue grass music and a tour of the owner’s personal sawmill, as well as a ride on wagon pulled by draft horses. Next to the Curtis store is a home that has been wonderfully restored after the 2007 flood. This farmer hosts an amazing agricultural organic farm and has just finished renovating their barn which is on the national historical registry. You will be able to sample his wonderful produce that is available to be delievered to your home once a week. Visitors will also stroll through a country manor that has been extensively udapted on the exterior and is owned by a gentleman who is an artist in concrete curbing. End the tour at Chehalis’s Historic 1907 Martha and John Black home. This home features three stories with a bay shaped staircase with 28 steps. Sorry, but these homes are not handcapped accessible but there is plenty to see. Where shoes that are easy to slip off and on, or easy to put surgical booties over.