Ranches

Timber Creek Ranch in Lake Cypress Springs Sold Last Week to Highest Bidder, Highest Sale in Lake Cypress Springs’ History

By Candy Evans | May 13, 2015 | Comments Off on Timber Creek Ranch in Lake Cypress Springs Sold Last Week to Highest Bidder, Highest Sale in Lake Cypress Springs’ History

Wow, that was fast. I mean, FAST! Kyle Crews of Allie Beth Allman, and Ralph Robertson of Century 21 Butler Real Estate Services successfully auctioned off the beautiful, 346-plus acre working recreational ranch known as Timber Creek Ranch last Thursday. Timber Creek is sold, gone, kaput and made someone a very happy ranch owner! The…

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The Evolution of Farm Ownership — Part 2: So You’ve Found ‘The One’

By Kathryn Roan | January 23, 2015 | Comments Off on The Evolution of Farm Ownership — Part 2: So You’ve Found ‘The One’

  (Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a fantastic series from Realtor and writer Kathryn Roan. You can read the first part here.) Finding the perfect farm is best categorized as online dating. You put your criteria into a search engine, and you get a 100 smiling, shiny faces in return. And like anything…

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The Evolution of Farm Ownership – Part 1

By Kathryn Roan | October 30, 2014 | Comments Off on The Evolution of Farm Ownership – Part 1

(Hint: That is not the Ranch of the Week.) So, you’ve gone and bought a ranch in the country. Congratulations, and welcome to your own personal sweat shop. Cancel your CrossFit membership, folks. Things are about to get real. The above photo was taken in October of 2010. I had just closed on a hot…

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Second Home in the Hill Country: Recipes From Boot Ranch for “Inner Peas”

By Candy Evans | March 28, 2014 | Comments Off on Second Home in the Hill Country: Recipes From Boot Ranch for “Inner Peas”

Boot Ranch is our favorite vacation (or permanent!) home community in the Texas Hill Country. When Chef Aaron J. Staudenmaier moved to Fredericksburg (from Dallas — he worked under Chef Kent Rathbun at Abacus, Jasper’s and at the farm-to-table concept, Rathbun’s Blue Plate Kitchen) to become the Boot Ranch Executive Chef in October 2012, he came…

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Ranch of the Week: A Rose of a Ranch in Union Valley

By Kathryn Roan | March 7, 2014 | Comments Off on Ranch of the Week: A Rose of a Ranch in Union Valley

We’re back to sweet residential ranches this week on Ranch of the Week, and this one’s a beaut! Just 20 minutes outside Rockwall, this fabulously updated ranchette at 4230 Val Rose is a charming slice of country, with all the amenities and conveniences of the city. Seriously, isn’t it just darling?

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Ranch of the Week: Stunning Barefoot Farms in Sanger, TX

By Kathryn Roan | February 28, 2014 |

Howdy, folks, and welcome to Barefoot Farms. We’ve explored a lot of cute hobby farms, nice vacation homes, and quaint gentleman’s ranches here on Ranch of the Week. This is not one of those times. It’s time to cowgirl up a little (ok, a lot), and check out a real incoming-producing working horse property in…

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