Forest Home Farms

The Forest Home Farms is a 16-section of land 6.5 ha city notable stop situated in San Ramon, California. In 1997, Ruth Quayle Boone handed down the land and all structures on it to the City of San Ramon for use as a recreation center and recorded site in memory of her significant other, Travis Moore Boone. After Ruth Boone's demise in 1998 at 94 years old, the City extended the commemoration to incorporate Ruth, to pay tribute to her liberality to the general population of San Ramon and in acknowledgment of the commitment ladies made to agribusiness in the San Ramon Valley.

The 16-section of land 6.5 ha cultivate is situated at the base of the Berkeley Hills, and Oak Creek isolates it in two relatively a balance of. The northern segment of the site contains the greater part of the structures assembled or utilized by the Boones, with the exception of the storage, which sits on a slope on the southwest corner of the property. The structures incorporate two houses, fourteen storehouses, and two pergolas.

The houses speak to right around a time of private improvement in the valley. The Boone House is a 22-room Dutch frontier that was renovated a few times since it was worked in 1900. This home will inevitably fill in as a withdraw and meeting focus. The fourteen storehouses, which fluctuate altogether in date of development and size, incorporate a stable initially implicit the period from 1850 to 1860, a 7,000-square-foot 650 m2 cultivate hardware and vehicle stockpiling structure and a three-building walnut preparing plant that incorporates a three-story hulling and drying structure.