Farm and Ranch Museum

   We decided to get started on our bucket list so we headed up to Las Cruces, New Mexico to see what we could find. The drive took about an hour and a half but traveling to new places is also exciting for me.  Once we arrived we found an amazing view of a mountain and decided to get a closer look. Heading toward the mountain range we came across one of the things on our bucket lits.... The Farm and Ranch Museum. We decided not to let the opportunity pass us by.
    The first thing we did when we arrived was jump on the back of the cart for a tour around the farm. The Farm and Ranch Museum is actually a working ranch. It is funded by the state and is very educational. They have different things going on throughout the day.... milking cows, roping cattle, and they even have a full black smith shop where you can purchase items made right there.

 

   
    Throughout the tour we saw many cool things. Heading out on the start of the tour we saw a really nice oven that the Indians used to bake their breads. I took a picture of it so Stephen can make me one. The way it was used was by starting a fire and then allowing a large pile of coals to build in it. Then they would put their bread in to bake and cover the outside with mud to hold in the heat. It seems a bit too much for me so I won't use mine for baking bread but I think it will cook other things rather well.

        Next we headed across the old wooden bridge. The bridge was going to be taken down and just replaced so the Farm and Ranch Museum basically rescued it. It was moved here and then put together and repaired. It is a beautiful old bridge.




Old wooden bridge



 

 

Mountain range

       Once the tour was complete by cart we walked the rest of the museum. There was a lot to see. Mostly old farm and ranch machinery, everything you would need to pick pecans, cotton, cherries, plow fields, plant seeds, or just about anything else you may do on a farm or ranch.
We went inside the barns to check out the animals. They checked us out as well.

 

 

     
        Before heading back to the building we checked out a few more things outside...

Then we headed inside to the John Deere Museum. This place reminded me of my friend Josh Gill. He would have loved to see all of the old tractors they had. I took plenty of pictures so he could! Here are a couple of them.


 





































   After all of that, we headed back to our car but not before stopping off to say good-bye to a very sweet couple....