Lunar Suite at Arandu Food Forest

Less than a mile from the Peavy Arboretum gateway to McDonald Forest and an easy 15 minute drive to Corvallis and OSU, this stand-alone guest suite offers the peace of the outdoors with the close proximity of the city. With a studio style bedroom, kitchenette, bathroom, and off street parking, guests have the privacy and freedom to come and go as they please. For summer visitors, Anderson's Blueberry Farm is right next door. Grab a map of the trails or the city from the bookshelf and explore! The space **Note: The suite has a new name! If you were looking for the Fusion Farmhouse, you've come to the right place. The farm has evolved and is now called Arandu Food Forest.** Furnished with a Queen bed and a Tuft&Needle mattress, a kitchen table, and chairs, an individual or couple will have plenty of space to spread out and enjoy their stay. On rainy days or quiet afternoons, a floor to ceiling bookshelf is loaded with a wide variety of books and a blue tooth speaker for playing music. A 4k Smart TV is also available for entertainment. Please note that there is no cable television, but the TV is set up so you can log into any of your Netflix, Hulu or Youtube accounts or rent a movie for the night on Amazon. Air conditioning and an easy to use heating system, keep the space pleasant in every season. The kitchenette comes equipped with dining ware, a Keurig coffee machine, a microwave, a toaster oven, and a small fridge. Please note that the kitchenette does not offer a stove or full-sized oven. Light breakfast items including organic instant oatmeal, cold cereal, local milk, fruit, coffee and tea are provided. A fully-stocked picnic tote is available for guests wishing to take their meals outdoors or adventure out into the woods and nearby wineries. In a private bathroom, guests will find freshly laundered towels and all the basic toiletries they might need. The standing shower is easy to access and a private water heater ensures that guests will never run out of hot water. The side door opens up onto a small, covered patio with a swing. Take your coffee outside and enjoy watching the hummingbirds argue over the feeders. The suite is located on a small homestead with goats, chickens, ducks, and more! Please feel free to explore, but take care not to enter any closed gates or pastures without permission. For more photos of the farm, check out our social accounts @arandufoodforest Guest access While the main house is off limits for guests, visitors are welcome to enjoy the 3.5 acre grounds which are in the VERY early stages of becoming a permaculture food forest. We have been planting fruit trees and bushes all over the property to mix in among the existing flora. As the food forest begins to grow, please help yourself to any of the produce growing in the garden or on trees. We are currently in the process of constructing a greenhouse in front. If it has been completed by your visit, you are welcome to step inside. We have brought our citrus love with us from South America. Varieties of citrus, coffee, papaya, and cinnamon trees will have you dreaming of the tropics from our temperate climate in the PNW. Other things to note **In light of the Covid-19 situation, I want to assure guests that I am taking extra precautions. I always clean the guest suite thoroughly between guests, however, to make it a safer and cleaner place for guests, I am airing out the suite between reservations, I am disinfecting all surfaces that are touched, and I wear gloves while I clean. All linens are always washed between guests, but I am taking the extra step of using clean linens that were not used by the previous guest and have been stored in a clean and safe place. If you have any additional requests that relate to Covid-19, please let me know and I will do my best to accommodate. An example would be leaving the bed unmade so that I minimize my handling of the linens. One farm safety note: Please do not open any closed gates. We have different animals in different paddocks and if a gate is closed, it needs to remain so. Let us know if you want to visit any one specific animal. Please be aware that there is a house dog, Farley, and three friendly livestock guardian dog (large!). They may bark when you first arrive, all are extremely friendly. Take care not to let them out of the fenced yard as they will happily follow you on all of your adventures. One of the three livestock guardian dogs is currently recovering from a persistent ear ache and is a little grumpier than normal. While he recovers, please do not go into any of the paddocks where the large dogs are without permission. Farley (the "smaller" house dog) is always happy to pick up the slack in providing a petting surface for dog lovers :) .