The ranchers we work with.

People ask us how we pick the ranches we work with now.

Here’s the short version.

We start with the animal. Everything we buy is 100% grass-fed and grass-finished. Never grain, not for flavor, not for weight, not for the last ninety days, not ever. No hormones. No antibiotics. The people raising these animals do it on pasture the way nature built them for.

Then we go meet the people. You can read a spec sheet all day long; it doesn’t tell you whether the rancher actually walks the pasture. We drive out. We look at the herd. We ask about calving, about water, about what they do when something gets sick (the answer can’t be “we call the vet and dose everyone”). We talk about how they manage the land because land and animal are the same job done two ways.

What we check.

• Diet, source-to-harvest, verifiable
• Pasture rotation and soil practice
• Calving, weaning, and handling approach
• Processing facility and chain of custody
• The person. We have turned down spec-correct ranches because the person didn’t feel right. That’s not a data point you can fake.

What we promise.

Every box that leaves this address is bison we would feed our own family. If it isn’t, we don’t send it. That is the whole job.

We’ll profile some of the ranches here in the Journal over the next few months — photos, the land, the people. Good people, doing honest work.

Greg & Tami