Learning and Group Study
at Rancho Jacona, Santa Fe

Rancho Jacona's layout with separate casitas for living and a large casita for the study classes and group meals lends itself to focused study in a rural, focussed environment.

We can help you find local experts to aid the study leaders.
Here are the study groups that we have hosted:

• Book Groups
• Pottery Making Groups
• Print Making Groups
• Women's Groups
• College Extension Programs
• Home Schooler Field Trip
• Golf and Shopping Groups

Please contact us for current opportunities for study > ranchojac@ranchojacona.com

College - University Educational Immersion

Study Program Accommodation - Lodging Santa Fe

Let our houses be yours during your studies in Northern New Mexico.

Our rental houses - adobe casitas - near Santa Fe and Los Alamos have made a great location , compound for a college, university, prep school study program. With lectures were on the patios of our 18th century Spanish land-grant ranch and right in the middle of the Rio Grande valley, there is an ambiance about Rancho Jacona that can focus the mind

Rancho Jacona is resonant oasis in which to study the cultures and history of the Southwest - from the Anasazi up through the Spanish Conquistadores and onto the current cultures of our native American Pueblos.

We have had one summer college immersion educational program stay at Rancho Jacona. Our experience with the college, the students, the lead teacher, his wife and five small children, has led us to encourage more summer college programs in the Southwest and here in Northern New Mexico at Santa Fe.

With large fully equipped kitchens, manifold accommodation groupings, and reasonable pricing, Rancho Jacona has made a comfortable home to one summer college course program and looks forward to welcoming students and teachers to more student summer programs in the future.

For the students taking part in a Southwest cultural - historical immersion course, what could be more appropriate than to be living on a 1700's Spanish land-grant and in buildings that are born of the fusion of two cultures - the Native American Pueblo and the Spanish.

For a study program - an immersion educational program - near Santa Fe, Rancho Jacona is quiet and isolated from the action in Santa Fe.

In the off hours of any study program, the students will have all this at their doorstep:

For Students, Northern New Mexico, Accommodation- Lodging:

• our pool
• all the animals: rabbits, donkeys to let nuzzle, chickens of many breeds, roosters, geese, goats, sheep, and peacocks that have the run of Rancho Jacona
• lots of videos to borrow
• board games to play
• books to explore on your casita's book case

Southwest Adventure and Culture That Starts at Rancho Jacona

• road biking along infrequently traveled back roads with long climbs into the mountains
  
  
• hiking in the arroyos, gorges, and mountains
  
  
• 7 nearby pueblos
  
  
• Bandelier just down the road 35 minutes
  
  
• the smaller Tsankawi Anasazi ruins are virtually "all to yourself" and are just fifteen minutes down the road.
  
  
• San Iledefenso pueblo just down the road - a pueblo not rebuilt for tourists
  
  
• exploring the ancient trade route - the Camino Real; it stretched its cultural trade line from Colorado back through New Mexico to Mexico City
  
  
• exploring the Turquoise Trail, south of Santa Fe -- travel through the turn-of-the-century mining towns of Madrid, Cerrillos and Golden; here is where turquoise was taken for ancient Indian jewelry
  
  
• exploring the American heritage of the Native American Museum in Santa Fe
  
  
• encountering the artist's eye of Georgia O'Keefe at the museum dedicated to her work in Santa Fe and in her house and "world" in Abiqui
  
  
• exploring Taos which is just an hour up the road

For pausing during the studies

• Gardens
• Sculpture by local artists
• Wind gongs that sing in harmony
• Wind sculptures in the meadow
• A bookish (or meditative) morning (or a whole day) on your patio
• A fierce monsoon storm across the valley, whoops – you missed it.
• The smell
  
  • of roses
  • of junipers
    
  • of wood smoke
    
• the sacred Jacona cliffs to concentrate the mind - by Pueblo invitation only
• a cottonwood to ponder