The Field House Farm Stay on Midnight's Farm

Farm stay in Lopez Island, Washington

  1. 5 guests
  2. 2 bedrooms
  3. 3 beds
  4. 1 bath
Hosted by Faith Helene
  1. Superhost
  2. 10 years hosting

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On Lopez Island, a quiet San Juan escape

On Lopez Island, centrally located and about 4.5 miles from the ferry terminal

A kitchen set up for real cooking

A well-stocked kitchen with an induction range, cast iron pans, and baking supplies to cook with

A place guests keep coming back to

Guests return again and again, with many calling this one of their all-time favorite stays
Step into island life, relax into the land on a 100 acre working farm. This sunny home invites you to read in the window seat, grill on the patio, cozy up to the woodstove or get creative in the well-stocked kitchen. Explore the pastures, marsh, and ponds. Use the yoga studio. Fire up the sauna. Charge your EV.

Nestled next to the pond and removed from the activity of barn and market garden the Field House invites you to enjoy your own retreat or engage with the farm.

The space
You are entering a working farm and community when you rent the Field House. We all share the land with our cattle, chickens, dogs, a multitude of swallows in summer, eagles, owls, and countless other critters. The house itself is light filled and efficient. We have invested in a weather proofing retrofit and mini-split heat pump so that the guest house reflects our values of climate change mitigation. There is also an ev charger provided. We also value good food and love to cook. We set up the kitchen so it is ready for meals to be made with an induction range, cast iron pans, baking supplies and all the basic ingredients to get you going. We want you to enjoy!

Guest access
The Field House has its own private yard and south facing patio. To the east is the swimming pond, sauna and Down Dog Yoga Studio. Just north up the drive is the big barn, our house, the market garden, hoophouse, and orchard. To the south hidden in the trees is the compost facility and during the winter, the cattle. To the west there is a big fir with an eagle's nest, pasture and marshes. You are welcome to wander and roam, to swim in the pond, use the sauna, take a class in the yoga studio or use for your own practice between classes, stroll the gardens, pick up some beef from self service farm stand and pick fruit in season. We love it when people engage with the land.

Other things to note
We love children! Please know that this is a working farm and supervise your kids appropriately. There is a pond, electric fences, trucks and tractors driving, and livestock. Children should be with an adult when exploring beyond the Field House yard. There is an assortment of games and toys in the baskets under the window seat. And fields, woods and gardens to explore, ponds to swim in and animals watch.

We also love dogs and are now welcoming them to the Field House. They must be on-leash when outside due to farm animals and free roaming chickens. Please keep them off the furniture.

The swimming pond is quite nice in the summer months. People do occasionally get swimmers itch (from a worm that has a crazy lifecycle involving ducks, snails and a free swimming larval stage). We are not a host but can have a reaction to it hence the itch. Swim off the dock and stay away from the pond edges, rinse off in the shower (located in sauna by the dock) and towel dry.

There is a wood fired sauna. We do charge a $25 lighting fee. Please arrange. It is right next to the pond so you can do the cold water plunge (exciting in winter!).

Please note that we have been on the island long enough to keep up the Lopez culture of skinny dipping. When we sauna and cold plunge or swim in the summer we often go au natural. All year we have a regular sauna Sunday mornings between 7:30-9:30. The pond is screened by some bushes from the Field House.

The Down Dog Yoga studio is located on Midnight's Farm as well. Check the calendar on our website for class availability. You are welcome to use it when there are not classes for personal practice.

This is a working farm so there may be occasional machine noise (haying, tractor, compost operation) and some truck/equipment traffic on the farm road near the house.

We rotationally graze the cattle during the spring, summer and fall and they move around the farm so may not be visible from the Field House. In the winter they are off pasture at the overwinter area and you are welcome to walk up and visit them.

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What this place offers

Lake access
Kitchen
Wifi
Free parking on premises
Private sauna

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Rated 4.99 out of 5 from 251 reviews.

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Where you’ll be

Lopez Island, Washington, United States
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Neighborhood highlights

Lopez Island has a wealth of public access to beaches, both dramatic high rocky bluffs with swift tides below, long sandy walks and pocket bays with pebbles you want to put in your pocket and take home. There is a fabulous Farmer's Market on Saturdays May-Sept. If you are here on a Fri, or Sun stop by the "Take it or Leave it" at the dump and look for fun, free stuff. The island is great for biking- some people call it flat but it really just has small ups and downs!

Meet your host

Superhost
251 reviews
4.99 out of 5 average rating
10 years of hosting
My work: Farmer
Lives in Lopez Island, Washington
You will drive right past our house on the way to the Field House. We both have deep roots on the Island. David started coming here with his family when he was 6 and Faith grew up here, in a little house her family built, in her great grandparents old alfalfa field. David was a commercial fisherman in Alaska and bought the land after a good season. He is the visionary who planted the 1,000+ trees in the hedgerow, built the yoga studio, the sauna, etc. David raised two daughters on the farm (Ani in highschool and Vilina, off at college). Faith had left the island and returned after 18 years away. We met in 2009 and as they say "the rest is history"! On the farm David's passion is compost. He runs the only Department of Ecology approved on-farm composting facility in the County. We are proud to divert yard debris from the burn pile and keep that fertility bio-available by turning it into compost. Faith manages most of the gardens and the hoophouse. Both of us enjoy the animals- the Murray Grey cattle and the pigs. We are happy to show you around! We are committed to living solution to climate change and you will see many ways that this has influenced the design and managment choices on the farm. The Field House is a passive solar design and all the new buildings have high efficiency standards. We installed 9.5 KW photovoltaic array in 2013 and are able to meet most of our power needs. The compost facility is focused around diverting waste from burn piles and putting that carbon back into the soil where it can promote vitality, feed the plants and us! We rotionally graze our cattle to promote carbon sequestration in the soil. We are committed to sharing this beautiful place with the local Lopez community and beyond through the yoga studio, public walking trails and occasional community events. We are excited to open it up to visitors and provide an opportunity to step into island life with both its people and its solitude

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Things to know

Cancellation policy
House rules
Check-in after 4:00 PM
Checkout before 11:00 AM
5 guests maximum
Safety & property
May encounter potentially dangerous animal
Carbon monoxide alarm
Smoke alarm