Friday, March 13 – Having seen most of the touristy stops around Fredericksburg several years ago (Enchanted Rock, LBJ Museum & Ranch, Museum of the Pacific War, OPA's Smoked Meats, etc.), we visited a few smaller sights today.
We walked around a roadside pottery an metal shop looking at some of the crazy metal art. They did have some beautiful pottery, but we have all we can carry packed in the RV.
The Wildseed Farm is a pretty neat stopping experience.
It is a family-owned farm since 1983. John R. Thomas, Wildseed's founder and president, turned his sideline turf seeding business into a full-time wildflower farm. In addition, he developed a machine to plant the tiny seeds and another to harvest them. The new company pioneered the practice of planting wildflowers in rows on large acreage. The farm has more than 1,000 cultivated acres in Texas and over 200 acres of wildflower fields at its Hill Country. They plant, harvest and sell seed of over 100 species of wildflowers, herbs and garden variety flowers.
They have hundreds of metal sculptures. The cacti below are all metal.
They have two very nice gift shop that Marsha enjoyed strolling around.
Make this one of your stops when visiting Hill Country.
We then stopped at das Peach Haus.
We were a little disappointed with this stop. Founded in 1969 on the grounds of the Wieser family orchards, the tourist literature describes it as having developed into a premier country store. We aren't too sure of that! Pretty small and not much to see. This is the only place we did find free wine tasting though.
More about our day in tomorrow's blog.
Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see y'all back real soon. Have a great day!
There's so much to see and do there. It's sure keeping both of you busy. We loved the LBJ Museum and and Wildseed Farm.
ReplyDeleteI though you were always off the beaten path.
ReplyDeleteSeems like a couple of interesting stops. At least you got to taste some wine and you can't beat free.
ReplyDeleteWe loved the Wildseed Farm. One of the pluses of re-visiting places is to see what else you find to see in the area. We always like to leave something to check out on our next visit.
ReplyDeleteHere goes my Texas Hill Country board on Pinterest! So much to see and do, so little time. Thanks for your postings.
ReplyDeleteYou guys always seem to find such great and interesting places to visit. Another great blog!
ReplyDeleteWildseed Farms definitely looks like my kind of place. Will put it on the list for our next visit to the hill country.
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