Some Alberta ranchers hope that branching into tourism will help shore up their family farms to last another generation — though the accommodations might seem a little quirky.

When Breanna Morrison bought five old grain bins for her ranch in Southern Alberta, she had no intention to ever use them to store grain or any other crop.

She purchased them sight unseen through an online auction and to begin a side project of transforming each of the two-storey metal bins into hotel rooms.

Saddle Hill Ranch Cabins opened in July with the bins sitting in a valley overlooking the Castle River on Morrison’s ranch near Pincher Creek in southwest Alberta. Each unit has a name, including “The Cattleman,” “The Trail Boss” and “The Wrangler.”

If you’ve watched and dreamed of staying on a farm with cows

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