A wooden plaque on the wall of the gathering room at J&P Ranch in Eagle Point sums up the mission of the place: “A pony is a childhood dream; a horse is an adulthood treasure.”

On a sunny afternoon in May, Leslie Hunter kicks back in the dappled shadows in front of her 100-year-old farmhouse. Sugar and Goober, her dogs, sprawl on the lush grass by her feet. Flanked by pear orchards and rustic, old barns just northeast of Ashland, her 11-acre Flying L Ranch is a bucolic portrait of the Southern Oregon good life.