Homestead Heritage - Come Take a Walking Tour

•Homestead Heritage Home Page • Walking Tours • Thanksgiving Craft and Children's Fair
• Area Lodging • Homestead Heritage Furniture • School of Woodworking • Heritage Barns
• School of Homesteading • Homestead Gristmill • Location and How to Contact Us

Walking Tour

	The Barn—Restored after 200 years, now showcasing the work of our craftsmen
	The Potter’s House—Distinctive stoneware and porcelain pottery
	Homestead Heritage Furniture—Solid wood furniture made with traditional hand joinery
	Homestead Gristmill—Restored 1760 gristmill where we grind fresh whole wheat flour, cornmeal and other grains
	Herb Garden—Herbs, companion plants and everlasting flowers
	Heritage Farm—A working homestead
	Homestead Farm & Garden Center—Seed, feed, supplements and supplies for gardening, landscaping and livestock care
	Heritage Farm Blacksmith Shop—Hand-forged wroughtiron pieces
	Homestead Farms Deli & Bakery—Sandwiches, all natural barbecue, desserts and real homemade ice cream made with organic milk, cream and eggs

A visit to our furniture workshop provides you with the unique opportunity to watch woodworking as it has been done for centuries, with traditional hand joinery. Whether building a hand-carved longleaf pine headboard, a solid mesquite armchair or a custom-designed black cherry end table, our craftsmen and their apprentices give every piece of furniture the same careful consideration.

Heritage Forge

Even before you enter the double doors of our blacksmith shop, you can hear the distinctive sound of a hammer and anvil. Watch our blacksmiths use traditional 18th century methods to hammer raw steel into a wide variety of useful and decorative ironwork, including fireplace tool sets, andirons, floor and table lamps, dinner bells, hooks and brackets, pot racks, custom-designed railings and lighting fixtures, beds, end tables and dining tables.

The Potter's House

You’ll enjoy watching our potters as they shape vessels of clay on the potter’s wheel in this attractive workshop. At the Potter’s House you’ll find a wide variety of styles, clays and glazes fired in our custom-built kiln. Our distinctive line of pottery includes functional household pieces as well as a wide selection of attractive giftware.

In 2001, the craftsmen of Homestead Heritage carefully documented and dismantled the Teeter mill built around 1768 at Mill Creek in Hunterdon County, New Jersey and restored it in its new location in central Texas. Given a new life as Homestead Gristmill, the mill is open to the public year round, grinding fresh whole wheat flour, corn meal, and other grains much as it did over 230 years ago.

The purpose of this homestead is to demonstrate the possibility of deriving a family’s food needs from a small farm and to serve as a teaching and research facility to teach homesteading and related essential skills. This working homestead consists of animal pens and corrals, pastures, a garden with 40 raised beds and a larger area that we farm with horses, a vineyard and berry patch, an orchard, a log cabin, originally built in the 1840’s in Missouri and an English barn that was originally built in 1760 in New Jersey. Heritage Farm provides a context for hands-on, interactive learning on an actual working farm.

Homestead Heritage at Brazos de Dios is easily accessible, just 5 miles west of IH-35
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(254) 754-9600

Homestead Heritage
P.O. Box 869
Elm Mott, Texas 76640