Texas ranches

Spring Color Blooms At These Brenham, Texas, Finds

By Amy Puchaty / March 16, 2021 /

Bursting with sprawling ranches and colorful blooms, Brenham, Texas is perhaps one of the most eye-catching and inviting towns in the Lone Star State. The family-friendly pit stop, just three-and-a-half hours from Dallas is most famous for its rich farming and railroad history, as well as being home to the famed Blue Bell Creameries. So…

Finding a Balance Between Home and Home School

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / August 3, 2020 /

By Sarah ZubiateFounder and Farmer, ZUBI’S Hi, it’s Sarah Zubiate again! I hope you all enjoyed my first post (and in case you missed it, check it out here). I am so thankful for all the positive comments and wanted to elaborate more in order to answer some of your questions.  It seems like we…

Home Sweet School: How One Dallas Mom is Homeschooling in a Pandemic

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / July 20, 2020 /

By Sarah ZubiateFounder and Farmer, ZUBI’S Like parents everywhere, I am navigating life the best I can during these uncertain and unprecedented times. Throughout the past few years, my family and I have split our time between our home in Dallas and life on our farm in East Texas.  Weekdays consisted of jam-packed days filled…

On SecondShelters.com: Pickens’ $250 Million Mesa Vista Ranch Makes News

By Valerie Jarvie / December 19, 2017 /

In a year of spectacular property listings, this $250 million Texas ranch stands tall. Built as the personal retreat for a legendary oilman, Mesa Vista Ranch is an oasis in the Panhandle. T. Boone Pickens developed and improved the property over five decades, adding housing, landscaping, and recreational amenities fit for a king, along with…

Luxury Lakefront Living in Athens, Texas

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / November 7, 2014 /

Experience world class luxury in the waterfront estate on exclusive Lake Athens, Texas which boasts a main house, guest house, greenhouse, wood working shop, barn, tennis court and two boat docks.