Castle Rock Ranch

01/27/2025

Whose freezer is empty? We've got some rare winter beef available! It's raised and managed with the same care and nutrition as our summer beef, but they're eating organic alfalfa and grass hay instead of summer's fresh green grass. The harvest date is next week and will be ready to pick up approximately 10 days later and then we won't have anything available again until mid-summer. Check out the link below if you'd like to fill your freezer soon with some healthy beef 💥

Feel free to message me (Jordan) with any questions.

We are offering a handful of winter-harvested yearlings (which we never do!) this year. They are grass fed yearlings that are dining on a diet of organic grass hay and alfafla and being supplemented with organic sea kelp and salt. It's not summer, but they're going to be tasty. We only harvest with....

01/26/2025

01/25/2025

It’s ranch maintenance season! We don’t have an extension ladder big enough for this job, so it takes some extra ingenuity to change the lightbulbs in the barn. Added bonus is the crazy trust exercise 😆
(And maybe the test to see if you have vertigo!?)

01/01/2025

Happy New Year from this crazy crew! Looking forward to more of the same adventures this year but doing them all better. Watch out 2025 - we’re coming for ya 💫

12/11/2024

Things that make us happy…

Compost and wood chips - from the soil to the pasture and animal health to the finished beef they make everything better ✨

Pro tip: if you want to impress or gift any of the homesteading ladies in your life, get them some compost or wood chips. We’re simple creatures really - you can’t go wrong.

11/26/2024

Professional package inspector reporting for duty (or just looking good for treats). The only downside to a dog who wants to friends with everyone is the concern that she might just jump in someone else’s vehicle if the adventure smells good.

11/18/2024

Cold but cozy times are here…✨

11/12/2024

Have you ever really, really, REAAAAALLLLYY not wanted to do something? Yeah….

Sometimes we all ‘make mountains out of molehills’, or in this case maybe we ‘make raging rivers out of a tiny ditch with a trickle of water’. Yes, we got through it but not without dragging our human counterparts through the muddy trickle of ditch water 🤦🏻‍♀️

10/27/2024

You know when it’s a serene, misty fall evening and everyone is peacefully eating grass and settling in for the evening when suddenly you’re disrupted by primal cow noises (the low, guttural throat-moo they make when a perceived predator is nearby)? Is it a wolf? (One was recently spotted in the neighborhood 200 yards from the herd, so not a stretch). A cougar? A bear? A moose ? Our cows hate them when they get in their pasture…
Nope, just our domestic boar who escaped and thought he’d try multi species grazing and see what all this premium fall grass is about. The human observers in this situation very briefly thought about herding him home but decided that herding pigs is about as useful as herding cats or kids and decided to just watch the drama unfold. The boar stood his ground even when the milk cow got a wild hair and tried to charge him. Ultimately, he found his bovine neighbors very inhospitable and eventually waddled back to his lady-pig friends.

Side note: the horses, who are deathly afraid of pigs when they have a rider on their backs, even when these pigs are enclosed in a corral or fence, couldn’t care less about a pig at ankle-biting height on the loose in their pasture. 🤷🏻‍♀️

10/19/2024

Fall is just showing off this year …! ✨✨✨

10/11/2024

Watch out - it’s palomino camo season! They sneak up on you when they’re disguised in the golden grass of fall and then pursue.

10/05/2024

All the fall gold…

09/23/2024

When you’re too far away to get a cute portrait, so you get closer and realize that there’s no ‘cute’ to be had here as these rascals are young and majorly covered in cow manure, or just middle aged and grumpy.

Theses two get to have the best grass (and they need it because they’re either young and growing or older and high maintenance 😊)but they’re grazing with the cows we’re still putting weight on, which has some messy downsides.

09/17/2024

September is the golden hour of the year✨

Mild weather, gorgeous skies, the bounty of the grass-growing season showing up as fat on the back of the cattle that we’ve been working hard to get there 😅

05/31/2024

Join us for a burger night at Castle Rock Ranch, Saturday, June 29th! We’re the second dinner in part of a series called Food as Farmacy put on by naturopathic Dr Casey Carr. There will be burgers, homemade buns and all the toppings, maybe some cute animals, definitely some feral kids (yours are welcome too) and an hour long ranch tour (mostly an opportunity to listen to Albert talk about the meat we raise, which is actually about the cows, which is actually about the grass, which is actually about the soil, which is actually about the microbes and how it all connects to us which is life-changing). 🤯 Seriously though, we love talking about food and how beef raised well is actually nutrient-dense medicine, which is what Dr Casey’s ‘Food as Farmacy’ dinner series is all about.

Lots more info at foodasfarmacy.com and tickets for our burger night are available at our link in bio, or here : https://app.barn2door.com/cdariverbeef/all

Feel free to DM me with any questions. Hope to see you there!

05/03/2024

I’ve been told it’s world naked gardening day - but I think we’ll just stick to moving compost to the garden in the usual north Idaho wardrobe of men’s thrift store attire that makes you look like a muddy marshmallow. Please follow along here for all the most inspirational homesteading/ranch fashion. ✨

04/27/2024

Always building…

and sometimes supervising! Someone’s gotta do it, right?

04/22/2024

Trying to get ourselves tuned up for the season but really we just want to nap in the sun ☀️