Our story
The people, the place and the promise behind every day of care.
Our story
In 2001 Doug Ostrander's mother, Edna, could no longer live alone on the farm. The nearest assisted living with an opening was in Wichita. Doug drove down every Sunday for two years and decided Salina needed a place of its own.
Doug and Karen bought a wheat field on the south edge of town and built fifty-two apartments around a wraparound porch. Edna was the first resident to move in, in April 2004, and the first to complain about the coffee.
Ramon came in 2012 and talked the family into a real bakery oven. Honey wheat on Mondays, cinnamon rolls on Saturdays and a loaf for every new resident's first morning.
Melissa took over as executive director in 2016. The porch got bigger, the garden got raised beds and the promise stayed the same: we'd want our own mother to live here.
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Call or text Melissa to set up a tour, or just stop by. Someone will be on the porch.