Posted on November 23, 2020 by Hilaree Levi

Thank you to our friends, partners and neighbors who have supported the Ranney Ranch over the past 52 years. We are grateful to pass our beautiful ranch on to a wonderful family who care deeply about the land and are committed to carrying on the rangeland practices that have worked so well here in our high mesa country. Happy Trails!
Category: Frontpage, Ruminations, Stories about Us
“Carbon Cowboys”
Posted on May 18, 2020 by Hilaree Levi

Melvin Johnson, Ranney Ranch manager, makes Fox News online as one of our country’s “Carbon Cowboys”.
Category: Home on the Range, News, Ruminations, Stories about Us, Uncategorized
Final Reflection from Mitchell Robert
Posted on November 18, 2019 by Hilaree Levi

November 10, 2019 My time at Ranney Ranch has been a wild, gritty, challenging and beautiful roller-coaster ride. I have experienced high highs feeling capable and confident. Having moments of complete (or at least almost complete) clarity, using the accumulation of all my learned…
Category: Ruminations, Stories about Us
Ranney Ranch Erosion Control Workshop
Posted on July 10, 2019 by Hilaree Levi

Workshop participants will build erosion control structures through hands-on instruction and learn how to read the landscape to better understand surface water flow and the erosion process from NRCS and Quivira Coalition staff members.
Category: Frontpage, Restoring the Land, Ruminations
E28: Nancy Ranney on Regenerative Grazing in New Mexico
Posted on June 6, 2019 by Hilaree Levi

Recently Nancy was interviewed by Kelly Brownell, Head of the World Food Policy Center at Duke University
Category: Ruminations, Stories about Us
LOOKING FORWARD TO APPRENTICING
Posted on April 16, 2019 by Hilaree Levi

“In just over a month I will have the privilege of beginning to work with Nancy and Melvin at Ranney Ranch. My journey in agriculture has been a winding one. Beginning in the rolling hills of central Washington to the green and wet Pacific…
Category: Ruminations, Stories about Us Tags: New Agrarian Program, quivira coalition, Ranching Apprenticeship
A Writer’s Summer at the Ranney Ranch
Posted on October 17, 2018 by Jessi Adcock

By Sean McCoy Summer 2018 writer-in-residence at Ranney Ranch Tarantulas are crossing the highway. The grass has begun to cure. I’m sitting on the porch of the Sowell House, as I often have this summer, watching the clouds above the mesa and wishing to…
Category: Ruminations, Stories about Us, Uncategorized
Apprenticing on the Ranney Ranch
Posted on September 5, 2018 by Jessi Adcock

Curious to know what apprenticing on the Ranney Ranch is like? Here’s a word from our current apprentice, Ben Vanderhoof, about his experience so far. When I was asked by Nancy Ranney to write a brief account of my experience on the ranch as…
Category: Ruminations, Stories about Us Tags: New Agrarian Program, quivira coalition, Ranching Apprenticeship
Audubon Certified
Posted on August 8, 2018 by Nancy Ranney

Ranney Ranch and Audubon partner to protect birds by restoring grasslands.
The Audubon mark certifies the beef was grazed on Audubon certified bird-friendly land.
Category: Frontpage, Home on the Range, Stories about Us
Finding Home on the Range
Posted on March 28, 2018 by Jessi Adcock

“So, what are your plans for after graduation?” “What you want to do with your life?” Ah, the questions every soon-to-be college graduate dreads. And of course, the ones asked by every well-meaning grandparent, aunt, professor, and friend. If you’d asked me one of…
Category: Ruminations, Stories about Us, Uncategorized Tags: apprenticeship, New Agrarian Program, quivira coalition