Different businesses, connected by a common purpose: putting places, practical skills and productive land to work in support of self-reliance.
Real estate and development experience help us decide what a place can become. Construction brings the skills to make it useful. Farming and ranching keep us engaged with the ongoing work of producing food and caring for land.
The purpose is to sustain that practical work and help people develop skills they can carry forward. These connections guide what we are building at Ash River. The businesses are at different stages: some are operating now, while Ash River Construction and Ash River Preserve are being formed. The work below shows both the present activity and the direction we want to grow.
Legado Services is our commercial construction business, based in Austin. We work with institutional developers, equity partners, general contractors and owners across Texas.
The work includes construction management and general contracting, ground-up multifamily, tunnel-form concrete, entitlement and development advisory, forensic construction consulting and field services.
Our team and selected trade partners bring the people and skills together to carry out the work.
More on Legado → legadoservices.com →Ash River Construction is being formed as our residential construction business, specializing in high-end custom homes.
The focus is on individual homes, with attention to the design, materials and details that make them work well for the people who live there.
Discuss a custom home →
Pasture, timber and water in Blairstown, Iowa. Cattle, hens and bees.
ashriverfarms.com → More on the farm →
Woods and river bottom on the Little River, managed for wildlife. Clearing trails, caring for habitat and learning the land are part of the ongoing work here.
The ranch is separate from our Iowa farm. Together, they give us different places to develop practical experience in caring for land over time.
We also provide land management services for other landowners, including habitat restoration, food plots and clearing.
Land management services →Automated Process builds AI systems that do real work across several kinds of business. We use them in our own companies first, helping the people doing the work organize information and get things done.
automatedprocess.com →Ash River Preserve is the evolution of the work at our Iowa farm and Texas ranch. Those places are the foundation for the next step: creating sustainability in our community and extending the work through outreach that helps others, including veterans, first responders and their families.
The intended model pairs a farm and a lodge, developed together. The farm would supply food for the lodge and its guests, while lodge income would help sustain the farm. The long-term vision is to bring this model to locations across states, giving veterans, first responders and their families places to spend time outdoors and take part in the work.
Ash River Preserve is in development and being formed as a nonprofit. Gifts are not tax-deductible yet.
Our connections in racing bring Ash River Farms, Ash River Companies and Legado Services together with people working in the sport.
Ash River Farms, Ash River Companies and Legado Services are partners of Brayden Cooley Racing, supporting the team’s US racing into 2027. Follow the team, meet Brayden and see what is coming next.
Visit Brayden Cooley Racing →Our racing connections also include Cool Chassis. Explore their chassis builds, setup work and repairs.
Visit Cool Chassis →