Animal Farm was born to satisfy a desire to get out of the city and be close to nature. In the summer of 1991, Gita and Cas Van Woerden started their quest for a piece of land no more than 1 hour driving from their primary residence in Downtown Houston, where their 3 children went to school. Several months later, they purchased 70 beautiful wooded acres in Cat Spring, 60 miles from Houston. The property is located just 5 miles south of Bellville, where the scenery begins to roll, in anticipation of the Texas Hill Country. At the end of a 3.5 mile winding dirt road, bordered by absentee owners and a spring fed creek, Gita and Cas started to build their new paradise in the summer of 1992!