Mesta Meadows Ranch

We had a great time at Ed and Terri Crowley's farm called Mesta Meadows Ranch in Glenallen, Missouri. We camped in our Lone Peak camper in a sheep pasture! I never thought I would say I camped with the sheep! We camped on May 23, 2026.

Ed took us on his side-by-side for a tour around the two farms, one on each side of the road, and let us choose where to camp. I picked the one with the sheep! I think he was surprised at my choice. He had just put them out to pasture in this field, but they are not always in this field. After we parked the truck and put up the camper, I was delighting in the view and our camper framed within.

We got up in the camper immediately to begin our relaxing. We were camping to relax! Look at the green pasture and trees against that beautiful blue sky!

And then out the other window was more pasture and a view of the pond.

When Ed came up with the tractor to mow the pasture for us, the sheep came with him! It was such a delight to watch. Then they left him and came right under my window. It was our first experience with them near the truck.

Then we watched them continue on to the shade of the tree out the back of the truck. They knew right where they were going and what for!

Not often, but sometimes they would take a drink from the pond.

We decided to go for a walk down to the farm. This is the road we walked down. The fence to the left was what kept the sheep in the pasture where we had camped.

This guy was the only Scottish Highland Cattle at the farm. There are three parcels of land, one for the farm, one across the road, and one next to the farm where the specialty cattle hang out. He would take us there the next day. There were two Great Pyrenees hanging out in the same field as this guy, which ran next to the pasture we were in. all of the pasture land was divided out by fence line, and there were different animals in each.

I loved this photo of the dog in the background.

We turned into the farm area and found the lambs or sheep.

This little guy looked like he was standing on the backs of the others! He was so cute! but later I realized he was standing on top of the feed box.

I took some photos of some of the other farm animals, but I do not know the names of them all and will not attempt to write it here.

This goat was so cute with the blue eyes! We were invited by Terri into the petting zoo. She told us what all of their types were, but I cannot remember them. I think this is a Nigerian Dwarf or Pygmy cross.

This guy is a Boer goat. I LOVE his ears and coloring.

This guy is a Nubian goat and I also really loved his long ears.

If you look closely, you can see this white goat's smile!

We went to the store and bought some items (the video shares them all) and returned to camp to eat our goat ice cream! The sheep were under the tree. Imagine that? I decided to walk down to visit them to see if they could get used to me and accept me.

They were a little skid-dish of me, so I sat down, and they looked at me while I looked at them.

Finally, one of them got brave and came up to check me out.

These four cracked me up! I had some funny captions to these four with three giving me their tail end and one looking at me.

The followed me when I returned to the truck! I guess they thought I had food.

I liked getting a photo of the camper with sheep around it.

I returned to the camper and at my Atelait goat's milk ice cream while thanking the goats for it! Ah! That was fun. It was really good too!

This guy was hanging out below me.

After a while, some of the sheep realized where we were and they came to check us out! We were wondering if they were going to try to climb in the camper!

One did try to eat the ladder, so we had to eventually get down and scoot them away. One also laid down under the truck.

Over in the distance in this photo is a fence line and we began to spot other sheep roaming in that pasture.

I found the scenery just beautiful!

It was fun taking photos as the scenery was ever changing with the light of the setting sun and the grazing sheep. It was better than watching television!

We were resting as it got dark and the sheep decided to come up to the truck again. It was the funniest moment! It was also a kind-of-had-to-be-there moment. I told hubby that I heard something and he immediately thought it was Ed! He freaked out and jumped up. His second thought was that it was a mountain lion. Now why did he not think it was sheep since we were among the sheep! What a fun sight when we sat up and saw them all coming towards the truck in a line trailing down to the tree.

After a bit they decided to go back down to the three.

This one sheep seemed always be the bravest. He hung back to the very last.

The sun rose right over the pond in the morning and that was fun!

See, here is the brave one again! We had made some tea and coffee and got our chairs out to sit by the truck for a while. I decided to try to walk around the pond to see if they would follow me.

I went all the way around the pond and they just looked at me and never moved!

The dogs did follow the fence line and hang out with me though, and I observed all of the wild flowers.

I told hubby to take his turn around to see if they would follow him.

At first they let him walk by too, but eventually one sheep decided to get up when he was half way around the pond, and then one by one, slowly, the sheep got up and started to follow.

I think this is the same brave one. He was a head-butter! He kept ramming his head into our butts.

Eventually they were all following him and we were both so delighted!

There is that head-butt in action in that photo!

How fun is that?!!

He is all smiles.

When he got to back to the truck, I decided to see if they would continue following me.

Yes! They did! I had SO much fun having the sheep follow me around the pond.

This is the head-butter! He kept doing it to me too.

They did not like it too much when I kept stopping to talk to them, call them my friends, and take their photos because they wanted to keep on moving. But every time I stopped, they stopped.

Hubby took a few photos of me from the truck across the pond.

I decided to take a selfie with the sheep following me.

This one is balking at me because I was stopping too much! Such a complainer!

Back at the truck we read Psalm 23 and considered all the ways these sheep were portrayed in the Bible verse.

We walked down to the farm and Ed took us over to the property next door where the Scottish Highland Cattle lived.

He gave us a bucket of treats to feed them. He got out of the vehicle and we stayed in it for safety.

It was so much fun feeding them! They were gentle in taking the snack out of my hand.

Then some decided to invite themselves to the bucket by sticking their heads inside the driver's side of the vehicle.

It was great for photo opps as it was up close and personal!

See, here are three more coming for a snack!

This guy was huge! He was there for breeding.

Ed told us they would follow us as we left.

And they did follow us, even picking up speed to a trot to try to keep up with us.

Before we left we went back across the road to check out the camping spots over there again. There is an old house there.

There is a creek there as well that we could have camped by, or there is a field up on a hill where people sometimes camp.

We drove to the other side of the house where there was an old spring that was used for water for the house and we tramped through the high foliage to check it out.