We visited the Heritage Homestead Craft Village just north of Waco. It's a community where craftspeople live and create beautiful items -- iron work, wooden furniture, pottery, soaps, textiles, and sell them.
This mill is from 1760, and was moved from New Jersey to Texas and rebuilt. The gristmill works and they grind grain and sell different kinds of flours and mixes. We had samples of warm gingerbread.
The homestead farm has farm animals -- we saw these goats, some hens and a rooster, and turkeys with the whitest features you ever saw. There is an organic farm, too.
At the Barn giftshop, there are so many beautiful things, particularly the soaps which smell so good and are packaged so nicely.
I could just stand there and smell the different kinds of soap all day.
There was a loom in the top floor of the barn with a work in progress.
Stephanie stopped to pose for the obligatory bluebonnet photo in the herb garden, and asked, "Can this be my bluebonnet photo?"Before we left, we had lunch at the deli and it was sooo good! Homemade ice cream and pies, fresh sandwhiches, and a wonderful onion soup!
Paul chatted with one of the ladies in the gift shop. The community who lives there is about 40 families, with 800 or so total in their congregation. They are non-denominational Christians, modest in their dress and live very simply.
What an interesting place, between this and the other photos you took earlier this year I'm thinking Waco might have to be a destination for us some day. (are you sure you don't work for the department of tourism for Waco? LOL)
ReplyDeleteWow I would love to be one of those people living and creating there. That would be a job I would look forward to every day! What a fun day!
ReplyDelete