About Falcon Ridge Farm

The story of Falcon Ridge Farm begins many generations back when the Gilmer and Bryan families of Shelby County farmed thousands of acres in what is now Collierville and Eads. Over the years, the families farmed many different crops and stocks including cotton, soybeans, corn, wheat, hay, cattle, pigs, chickens, and show horses. Through the years the farm shrank to about 100 acres in Eads. This land belonged to Mary Ellen Bryan’s family. When she married Ray Gilmer in 1973, it became the Gilmer/Bryan farm. Ray, Mary Ellen, and her parents, Floyd and Sue still lived on the farm. Ray had begun a successful career as a horse trainer while Floyd kept farming row crops. The horse training operation saw much success over the years, claiming dozens of national awards in the show horse circuit. While Ray was training horses, he always kept raising cattle, growing and baling his own hay, and Mary Ellen and her parents kept an amazing vegetable garden. Ray and Mary Ellen would go on to have three children: Brad, Erica, and Bart. They were happy to raise their children in the same place they had been raised.