A brand new retreat in Jewett, Texas — about three and a half hours from San Antonio, east of Waco — is beckoning to Texas vacationers on the lookout for a country however trendy weekend away. Limestone Fields is now accepting reservations for a Might 15 opening.
The 16-acre property based by Dallas hospitality professional Josh Ramsey is called for Lake Limestone, a roughly 12-mile-long physique of water steps away from the ten cabins. It is not simply your customary lake journey, although; the property additionally encompasses a working farm, the place farmer Trisha Bates will develop crops, herbs, and flowers, harvest eggs from free-range chickens and geese, and graze two Scottish Highland cows, Doug and Maisie.
Maisie is a miniature Highland cow.Picture by Ashley Estave
Company will be capable of go to the farm, both to test it out or harvest crops, and extra programming is coming quickly, together with a chef residency program and farm workshops. Company will even be capable of strive their hand at “simple farm duties,” a press launch says.
Along with the farm, there’s the Commons Barn, a communal space with a kitchen that is open 24 hours a day. Gear features a 48-inch vary, an outside pizza oven, an offset smoker, and extra. Company will be capable of fill out an order kind earlier than or throughout their go to, however the property encourages that they bring about their very own meals, which they’ll retailer on the barn.
Visitor cabins are both customary at 256 sq. toes or premium at 384, with easy building and trendy furnishings — not as sophisticated as a lodge room, however not as naked as a cabin. Every entrance deck overlooks a pond, whereas again decks open out to the lake. Company will even get to chill out in personal scorching tubs by Ofuro, an organization that focuses on Japanese-style cedar tubs.
Excessive-quality facilities improve this from tenting to a extra luxe keep, together with Parachute linens, local weather management, wifi that is simple to activate and off, and, for journal-keepers actually entering into the retreat mindset, writing desks designed and crafted by the property proprietor himself. Telephone resting bins assist hold tech out of sight and thoughts.
The bunk beds say tenting, however the decor says lodge.Picture by Ashley Estave
If friends would relatively spend their time outdoors, they’ll stroll on trails across the property, fish, search for birds, sit by a campfire, and extra. They’ll additionally e-book Lake Limestone Marina for extra water actions.
“We designed Limestone Fields to fill a rising hole in how we spend our time away,” stated Ramsey within the launch. “In an more and more automated world, there’s a distinct lack of areas that facilitate real, unhurried connection. By specializing in small-scale hospitality and intentional shared areas – whether or not that’s a communal meal or soaking in a cedar tub – we wished to create a sanctuary for the form of solitary work and deep reflection that, paradoxically, can’t be carried out completely alone.”
The cabins are surrounded by water.Picture by Ashley Estave
Ramsey’s previous hospitality expertise features a stint on the Hilton and later co-founding Prosper Resorts, a administration group. This can be a far more private undertaking that retains the founder near his retired father, who lives minutes away and affords his personal hospitality experience.
The discharge explains that Limestone Fields is a part of the Put up Oak Savannah, which was dwelling to the Tawakoni, Waco, Apache, and Comanche tribes. Mexican land grants took over the land within the 1820s and 1830s. The present form of the land was shaped by the damming of the Navasota River in 1978.
“It’s about extra than simply escaping metropolis life,” stated Ramsey. “[It’s] about making a bodily atmosphere that offers you house to listen to your individual voice, whereas holding house for the camaraderie that solely occurs while you’re actually current.”
Limestone Fields is situated at 159 LCR 890. Stays begin at $200 an evening and “often” have a two-night minimal. Costs fluctuate with seasonality.
