We sold the herd.

We sold the herd this winter.

Tami and I didn’t want to write this letter. We wrote it five different ways before we figured out how to say it. Here is the plain version.

Last year was hard. Family things, financial things, health things — stacked up in a way we couldn’t outwork. We had to choose between the ranch we wanted to run and the family we needed to keep whole. We chose the family.

So the herd went to buyers who will raise those animals the way we raised them. Grass-fed. Open pasture. No hormones, no antibiotics, no grain. We vetted every one of them the same way we vetted ourselves.

What that means for you.

We are still selling bison. Every box that ships out of here meets the same standard the ranch set when I could walk into the pasture and point at the animal. The difference is the ranches now. Not ours. Theirs. People we trust, who are doing the work we did, the same way we did it.

What that means for the ranch.

Memphis Ranch is still home. The fences are up. The water is on. We are rebuilding in a way that does not require us to be thirty years younger to keep up with it. Bison Shares open again this spring, and when they do, some of those animals will be ours again. That is the plan.

In the meantime: thank you. The people who have written in, ordered, and stood at our farmers’ market table these past months — you are the reason this business still works.

More to come.

Greg & Tami