We're right here in Dripping Springs, Texas 78620. Not hidden away in the back country. Not some secret operation. We're in town, on the land, and we sell to our neighbors. If you live in Dripping Springs or work here, there's a good chance you've driven past the property. We're closer than you think.
Dripping Springs has changed a lot in the last few years. It's grown fast. New neighborhoods going up, Austin commuters coming through, more people all the time. But the land around it is still working ranches and farms. Still people making things. Still places where you can buy food directly from the person who grows it. That's rarer than it used to be, and it's valuable now because of that.
Dripping Springs and the local food movement
This town grew fast, but the people who came here often came because they like the land and the ranching culture. There's an appreciation for the Hill Country here that's different from Austin proper. People understand that land is not infinite. They're skeptical of industrial food systems that make them feel removed from where their food comes from. They want to know the person who's feeding them.
That's the market we're in. We're not trying to compete with grocery stores on price or convenience. We're offering something different — direct access to the person who raises the food. You know Chris, the person who tends the chickens. You know the name of the ranch. You can come by and see it. That changes how food tastes.
What we sell and how much it costs
Pasture-raised eggs: four dollars for a half dozen, seven dollars for a dozen. The eggs live on five acres in the middle of Dripping Springs. They're the real thing — birds on genuine pasture, diverse diet, no antibiotics, no hormones. Sourdough loaves: eight dollars each. Made with a sourdough starter that's years old, stone-ground flour, eighteen-hour ferment. It's bread that doesn't rush. Live oak firewood: ten dollars a bundle. Split, stacked, ready to burn. We cut from dead fall on the property.
These prices aren't cheap. But they're transparent. You're not paying a middleman. You're not paying for distribution or marketing or corporate overhead. You're paying the cost of making something real, and you know that money goes back into the ranch that made it.
The pickup experience
Order through honeybunchesofoaks.farm. Simple website, simple system. We confirm your order within a day. Then you pick up at the ranch — we work around your schedule. No lines. No parking lots. No standing in a check-out queue. You pull up, we hand you what you ordered, you go home. There's a cooler out front if you need to grab eggs when we're not actively there. It's neighborly. It's direct.
People who've been coming for a few months report that the pickup has become a habit. They swing by because they're heading that direction anyway, grab eggs and bread, talk about what's coming next. It becomes part of their week. That's the whole point of local food — it's not anonymous. It's not a transaction. It's a relationship.
What's coming next
We're planning to start selling raw honey from the Buckfast hives within a year. Not processed, not heated, not bottled by someone else. Honey from our bees, filtered and bottled. Seasonal fruit from the orchard — peaches, pears, plums, nectarines, persimmons — as the trees mature and start producing. Pecans in a few years once those trees are established. Each product will be something real made on this land by someone you can meet.
The vision is a complete picture of a working ranch where you can buy eggs, bread, honey, firewood, and fruit. All of it made here. All of it something we're proud to put our name on. For now, it's eggs and sourdough. But the ranch is building toward more.
If you're in Dripping Springs
Order online. Come pick up. See the place. Meet the chickens if you want. See how a real small farm operates. It won't take long. It's not complicated. But it's real, and in a world of industrial food systems, that matters more than you'd think. We're here. We're making food. Come get it.