Selah Hills Ranch
Selah Hills Ranch · Agency, Missouri
What Brad and Lorie have learned running thirty acres on sun and ground, written from the property.
From the ranch
What we have learned
Questions guests actually ask, answered by the people who live here.
A solar array on the hillside carries the electricity. A geothermal loop at the bottom of the pond carries the heat. The only utility bill of 2026 was $50, for both residences.
The first evening is restless. By the second one nobody has picked up a phone in an hour. That is the whole reason we built it this way.
A working cattle operation raising grassfed Scottish Highlands. The guest rooms came second, and the herd was here first.
Yes, and the fishing usually does the heavy lifting. There are Highland cattle in the pasture and stocked ponds.
Yes. All three rooms together are $375 a night, 940 square feet, sleeping ten.
Quiet, a hot tub under an open sky, a fire by the water, and no television anywhere near you.
Yes. They graze the pasture you walk through, and most mornings they will come to the fence on their own.
Ten comfortably across three rooms, or eleven with the twin bed in the West Wing.
About 45 minutes north of Kansas City and 15 minutes from St. Joseph, at 6777 Monroe Rd SE in Agency, Missouri.
It means the sun and the ground do the work. There is no gas line to this property, and the electric meter runs on a net metering plan.
Because there is no front desk, no hallway, and nobody else deciding what your evening looks like.