The Ranch at Laguna Beach chef Chef Kyle St. John holds one of the hotel’s 20 chickens that inhabit the organic farm. The chickens produce a total of about a dozen eggs a day.

The Ranch at Laguna Beach, the South County resort with four dining options, is now the latest spot to offer Oakland-based Equator Coffee.

Ryan “Farmer Leo” Goldsmith, with The Ranch at Laguna Beach, shows off the hotel’s 30-feet by 8-feet compost pile on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024.

Ryan “Farmer Leo” Goldsmith, with The Ranch at Laguna Beach, shows off the hotel’s 30-feet by 8-feet compost pile on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. The mixture of kitchen scraps and shredded office paper ...

The Ranch at Laguna Beach uses a unique two-step process to recycle the hotel’s glass bottles into an unlimited supply of sand, said COO Kurt Bjorkman on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024.