Life on the farmstead is presented as it was in 1918. Park interpreters wear period clothing, do the farm and household chores as they were done at that time and also conduct tours for the visitors. Bus tours of the LBJ Ranch are conducted by the National Park Service and start at the State Park Visitor Center. Tours also go throughout the working LBJ Ranch where cattle still are raised. A fee is charged for the tour.
Some chores are seasonal, such as canning and butchering.
Farm animals, however, must be cared for on a daily basis, including activities like feeding, milking, gathering eggs and slopping the hogs. Also, the house is cleaned, meals are cooked, butter is churned and cheese is made. The setting for the present-day living history activities is an authentic Hill Country farm. Johann and Christine Sauer, along with their four children, settled this land in 1869. Their family prospered and grew and, by 1885, several stone buildings were built near the original rock and log cabins.