Work on the Boone ranch lasted from sunrise to sunset. Each year the Boones ran a walnut processing operation for local walnut farmers that included washing, hulling, and drying walnuts. Travis Boone owned one of the few hay harvesters in the valley, and at the end of each summer he and his workers helped local farmers cut and bale hay while also working on leased land in Livermore. At peak times, the Boones employed up to 100 men, women, and children to help run the ranch. Phil Munson, son of Floyd Munson, the foreman during the 1940s, recalled that workers did everything, including driving tractors, plowing fields, and going on the payroll at 14 years old during the summer. Ruth Quayle Boone remembered a large camp across the road with 20 x 14 foot collapsible cabins and a privy between each one, and she recalled asking the wives of the men who worked there if they would be willing to pick so they could make a little money. The building in front of the ranch was once the home of the ranch foreman and his family; it was assembled in three sections in phases during the 1920s and 30s.