A nurse on county roads
For twenty years Lena Brockman drove Garvin County as a home health nurse. Her patients kept telling her the same thing: the hardest part was losing the garden.
Our story
How we got here
The people, the place and the promise behind every day of care.
Our story
From homestead to Goldenrod House
The Brockman homestead
Walt's family had farmed the land east of the Washita since the 1940s. The farmhouse was big, the barn was sound, and there was room to build.
Sixteen suites and a greenhouse
In 2007 they added a wing of suites, widened every door, paved the garden paths and built a glass greenhouse that Walt still calls his best crop.
The first harvest
The first residents moved in the spring of 2008. By July they were eating their own tomatoes at the long table.
The sunflower field
In 2012 a resident who had grown sunflowers in Kansas asked for a few seeds. Now there is an acre of them along the drive every September.
Still sixteen
We have been asked to grow. We have stayed at sixteen, so every caregiver knows every resident and every resident has a row in the garden.
- 16private suites with baths
- 5acres of garden, greenhouse and sunflowers
- 2008the year Goldenrod House opened
- 4:1residents to caregivers by day
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Garvin County Readers' Choice · Best Senior Care (sample)
- Pauls Valley Chamber · Business of the Year (sample)
- Family survey · 99% would recommend (sample)
- Licensed residential care home · Oklahoma
Come see what's blooming.
Every tour ends on the porch with sweet tea and whatever is ripe. Call Lena, or choose a time below.