by Rafter W Ranch | Jul 30, 2023 | Day on the Ranch, Our Farm, Regenerative Agriculture
We have new visitors … the tumblebug. The video below was captured recently on the ranch showing these insects hard at work. Throughout our ranching experience, we have encountered various dung beetles. However, this is the first time we’ve come...
by Rafter W Ranch | Jul 17, 2023 | Our Farm, Regenerative Agriculture, Sustainability
Grazing livestock to mimic how wildlife forages (or called Regenerative Agriculture or Regenerative Cattle Ranching) can prevent the erosion of topsoil, protect water quality and keep carbon out of the atmosphere, but it requires big changes in how the beef industry...
by Rafter W Ranch | Jul 2, 2023 | Food Safety, Healthy Living, Our Farm
Federal agencies scrap aerial pesticide spray which would have exterminated grasshoppers near the Rio Chama with aerial pesticide spraying that many feared would also kill bees, monarch butterflies and other insects vital to the ecosystem. In a rare move, and...
by Somebody Creative | Dec 30, 2022 | Day on the Ranch, Our Farm
There’s NOTHING like a great year in review to keep all of you informed of what’s happening at Rafter W Ranch … and in the life of the Wheeler Family. At the beginning of the year we were blessed to receive grant funding, throughAudubon’s...
by Rafter W Ranch | May 29, 2022 | Our Farm
Hello, My Name is Tess Palmer … I am apprenticing on the Rafter W Ranch in Simla, Colorado. Using regenerative principles this ranch, run by the Wheeler Family, is producing Grass finished beef, lamb, pastured chicken, and eggs. I arrived at the ranch in...
by Rafter W Ranch | May 14, 2022 | Grassfed, Beef, Our Farm
Pasture-Fed Beef vs. Grass-Fed Beef – What’s the Difference? Make no mistake, there is a lot at steak (whoops, stake) when deciding what to feed your family, so when someone tells you a steak is a steak is a steak … they are either misguided or simply unaware of...
