Mission: Inspired by the rhythms of the Texas Hill Country, Madroño Ranch: A Center for Writing, Art, and the Environment offers writers and artists focused on the environment a source and resource for work and rest, solitude and communion.

Vision: Believing in the intelligence and elegance of nature, we envision a world in which creative thinkers devise and articulate ways of aligning human commerce and consciousness more closely with the environment that nourishes and sustains us. Madroño Ranch: A Center for Writing, Art, and the Environment supports this vision by bringing people together to work, eat, converse, and rest in a setting that resonates with the rhythms of the land, water, and sky. The operations and activities of Madroño Ranch will be economically self-sustaining, to the greatest degree possible, and will exemplify balanced respect for and awareness of community and place.