Besides the working ranch's mixed Cracker breed of cattle, participants often see white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, sandhill cranes, and gopher tortoises. Guides explain the business of ranching and intriguing facts about how the old cowboys and Amerindians used native plants for everything from bug repellant to bootjacks. That's the whole idea behind Florida's new wave of eco-ranches. Time's come to hitch the public up to that rich heritage. Reservations are required at all.
Future plans call for a visitors center with restaurant and theater.
Future plans include a museum. Florida's first and model of ranch eco-attractions. Old logging town, re-introduced bison, Florida panthers, alligator farm, swamp boardwalk, shack built for Sean Connery's Just Cause, and bike tours. Citrus grove, Cracker barbecue lunch, re-created Cracker house and Seminole Indian huts, walking trails.