We are first generation ranchers with full time day jobs who have worked towards getting to a place where we can live and raise our children in the country while raising all the food we can for our family. It’s a passion that has taken years to develop and scale so that we can share our values and food with other families as well. We have supported local ranchers while we didn’t have this capability and now we are that local rancher, looking to share what we have built with others. 

We ourselves buy raw milk from our closest 3rd generation dairy farmer who is 76 years old. He told me a story himself about how his family members that were born before the generation of the grocery store, lived longer than those born after it. This is the heart of our operation, taking food back from the large scale, politically and commodity driven markets that see food as a dollar sign and method to control the masses, back into hands of locals who see food as a way to heal, restore and grow communities and their citizens health.

Our family spends evenings, weekends and spare moments, checking cows, building fence, helping newborn calves, rotating pastures, maintaining water systems and everything in between to build this future for our own benefit and for our community. This is how we think raising families in communities is meant to be: farmers and ranchers sharing goods with each other through trade and community support. 

For many years people accepted that buying food a grocery store (which comes from feedlots and other large commercial enterprises) was normal, when it used to come from our own backyards. This perception is beginning to change, and a growing number of individuals now wish to know where their food comes from and that it has been raised in an ethical manner, with respect for the animal and the land. This change in mindset to ethical and sustainable food choices is the basis and foundation that Triple Creek Ranch is built on.

Years ago, I volunteered for my church youth group. Kids would constantly bring in packaged snacks from vending machines or gas stations on the way to our meetings. As we gathered, I would take the wrappers out of the trash and read through ingredients as they indulged in their processed snack. I would explain what the chemical names actually were and how they negatively affected our bodies, blood sugar, and energy levels as they would yell “Don’t ruin this for me!” jokingly. That theme has followed me as I have raised children and built my own beef herd. Now instead of ruining others indulgences, I’m raising  my own healthy “mom approved” food: Farm raised, grassed fed, straight from producer to consumer beef, raised on regenerative and holistic ranch management principles, ensuring quality nutrition, while respecting and caring for the animals and land that has fed generations of Americans.