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The ranch hosts its
Lavender Festival from June to July which celebrates the beginning of lavender harvest season, where many lavender products are made and sold. Highland Springs also hosts the Annual Sausage and Beer Festival, the Annual Olive & Wine Faire, and several others. During festivals,
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In 1948, the Rosin brothers (Stanley, Elmer, & Victor) bought
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Highland Home Hotel was bought by Palmer and
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The resort now contains an organic farm, a science camp for children, olive groves, and the largest certified organic lavender farm (20 acres) in
Southern California. The Grand Oak Farm to Table restaurant was named (it is now closed permanently with the chef overseeing all festival menus) for a
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Under Yoo’s ownership in 2001, Highland
Springs recruited a farmer named Tina Kummerle. According to Jessy Beckett, a few months into taking the farmer position, the president stepped down and the board appointed Tina as Highland Springs’ new president. Kummerle graduated with a degree in
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Station was purchased by an unspecified Los Angeles company, where one of the owners, named Veile, opened a three-story hotel on the property called Highland Home Hotel. Following the planting of the first cherry trees on the Highland property,
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Rheumatoid Fever and was nursed to health by a passerby named Dr. Isaac Smith. Edward’s asserts that Smith was ultimately gifted one-third of the interest of the San Gorgonio property, then was later transferred ownership of the entire land.
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and his brother Will W. Hirsch bought Smith’s old property and developed it into a vegetarian health resort called
Highland Springs Resort. After allegedly being healed through Prof. Arnold Ehret’s methods, Fred Hirsch implemented the teaching of Prof.
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and ran a vegetarian restaurant serving produce grown on the property. Highland
Springs Resort became known as “The Last Resort” because people who were unable to heal through traditional medicine, travelled to Highland Springs for Hirsch’s help to
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Wilkinson Stagecoach robbery-murder of 1862 occurred on the property while under Dr. Isaac’s ownership. From 1864 to 1866, Smith’s Station was the first stop in Highland Springs along the
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Highland Springs’ farmers offer workshops and showcase the farm’s organic produce. The ranch offers live music, hiking, and photoshoots for amateur photographers.
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thousand-year-old oak tree residing on the property, and most of the food served at the restaurant was produced at the onsite farm.
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