Our mission:Inspired by the rhythms of the Texas Hill Country, Madroño Ranch offers writers and artists focused on the environment a source and resource for work and rest, solitude and communion.
Our vision: Believing in the intelligence and elegance of nature, we envision a world in which creative thinkers devise and articulate ways of aligning human commerce and consciousness more closely with the environment that nourishes and sustains us. Madroño Ranch supports this vision by bringing people together to work, eat, converse, and rest in a setting that resonates with the rhythms of the land, water, and sky. The operations and activities of Madroño Ranch will be economically self-sustaining, to the greatest degree possible, and will exemplify balanced respect for and awareness of community and place.
Heather, a San Antonio native, was formerly on the staff of Seton Cove, an interfaith spirituality center in Austin, and is a dedicated rower, published poet, and freelance theology teacher.
Martin, born in San Francisco, was for many years a writer and editor with the Texas State Historical Association and with Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the NEH.
We divide our time between our house in Austin and Madroño Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. We have three kids, two dogs, and four cats.