The garden

Our story

Our story

Ranch families, 160 acres and a promise to keep folks on the land.

Our story

How the ranch came to be

A resident at work in the woodshop
A resident carving in the woodshop
A resident sanding a bench in the shop
A resident laying brick for the new garden wall
A couple with seedlings for the garden
Chapter 01

1997: 160 acres on the Bosque

Eight Erath County ranch and dairy families bought pasture on the river and kept the barn, the stock tank and the pecans.

Chapter 02

1999: the first cottages

Twenty cottages opened with porches facing the pasture. The first residents planted the garden that spring.

Chapter 03

2006: care on the ranch

The River Health Center and Bunkhouse Hall opened, so no one had to leave the ranch for care.

Chapter 04

2014: Homestead House

Memory care opened in a farmhouse built around a porch and garden, with daily visits from the animals.

Chapter 05

Today: still a working ranch

Two hundred and forty residents, fourteen horses and a Saturday market that sells out by ten.

  • 160acres of pasture, pecan bottom and river
  • 14horses, half of them rescued
  • 4levels of care on one ranch
  • 1997opened by Erath County ranch families

Ratings & recognition · sample

  • Sample: Best Senior Living, County Readers' Poll
  • Sample: Not-for-Profit Excellence Award
  • Sample: Top Workplace

The coffee's hot and the horses are fed. Come on out.

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