A Quick Jaunt to Monterey and Tour of the Dorrance Ranch

In which the McClains do a road trip to the Salinas area to visit a sustainable cattle ranch preserved via help from the Nature Conservancy.

The photo above peers down from the Dorrance (pronounced like the city of Torrance) ranch on to a neighboring ranch.

It’s been a while since our visit and details fade, but it was very impressive to understand the complexity of cattle ranching and the property use agreements between the Dorrance family and the Conservancy that allow the family to continue their traditional livelihood, while assuring stewardship of this incredibly beautiful and precious parcel of land continues.

Perhaps we will update this post in the future, but meanwhile have a look at this website that also references the ranch: http://alyssum.blogspot.com/2011/01/dorrance-ranch.html