Tammy Pate: The Ultimate Ranch Mom’s Life in Photos
The year is 1973, and it is a vibrant Montana spring. The wild crocuses are blooming a brilliant purple in the Big Coulee valley. A 6-year-old cowgirl is loping alongside...
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Kate Maclean: Raising Kids in 2021 on Longest Acres Farm
Kate MacLean is the matriarch behind Longest Acres Farm, a thoughtfully operated organic livestock farm based in rural Vermont that […]
Herding Cultures From Around the World: The Sami
The Sami, an indigenous population in Scandinavia, began herding reindeer as early as 98 AD. Today, only about ten percent of the roughly 100,000 Sami people spread throughout Finland, Norway, Sweden, and parts...
It's Time to Mend
In the midst of the pandemic, many Americans have been repurposing their own clothes as a way to save money or test out a new (at home) hobby. Since most of...
A Cut Above The Rest: Kay Foye
Wrangler turned knifemaker. How time in the saddle became the catalyst for remarkable and functional art.
Rodents on the Range: The Treasure House
Weaving among the shrubs and cacti, I came upon a very strange structure, something I had not seen before. I wondered: what animal built this curious house?
Women You Should Know: The Grand Dame of Cowboy Poetry
Before she became "The Grand Dame of Cowboy Poetry" at age 65, Elizabeth Ebert wrote cowboy poetry in secret for decades.
Women You Should Know: The Grandmother of the Conservation Movement
From a childhood in remote Alaska trekking 400-miles on dogsleds to receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, read more about the fascinating life of Margaret Thomas Murie, “The Grandmother of...
Women You Should Know: Bonnie McCarroll
She wore a large-brimmed beaver hat, fringed gloves, a handmade western blouse, custom boots, and jodhpurs. Sometimes she’d add a wild rag, vest, chinks, or woolies. She’d pin down her hair,...
Ranchlands Today
In the Unknown Certainty of Tomorrow It is November 1999. I am standing in the Chico Basin ranch corrals, watching […]
Rodents on the Range: The North American Porcupine
It is winter on the Chico Basin Ranch. Winter is the best time to find porcupines as the trees have […]
Meet the artisan: Zara
What are some of the places you’ve lived in your life? I was born in the Blue Ridge area in Virginia. Appalachia is home to me, the older mountains. I...
Horses and Helicopters
There’s definitely certain situations where the helicopter shines. But cutting pairs, sorting cattle, you can’t do that in a helicopter or a bike, that’s a horse job. The interesting thing...
The History of Zapata Ranch
Archaeological investigations have documented that the San Luis Valley was utilized by various Native American cultures for thousands of years. The earliest time period, the Paleo-Indian stage (approximately 11,500 B.P....
Never Not Birding
Are birds the most sung-about members of the animal kingdom? Based on the breadth and depth of our bird-inspired playlist, […]
The Life of a Ranch Horse: Caguama
The Spanish word for loggerhead sea turtle–caguama–is also Mexican slang for a 32 ounce bottle of beer, the connection being, presumably, that the further down the bottle one drinks, the...
