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The Ranch
The Valle Grande Ranch is located 30 miles southeast of Santa Fe on Rowe Mesa. The ranch is owned by The Qui­vira Coalition, a non-profit conservation organization dedicated to restoring and managing land health in the Southwest. We believe that maintaining working landscapes is one of the best ways to ensure a sustainable, healthy environment and food supply.
The Valle Grande Ranch serves as a demonstration for forest and rangeland restoration projects, low stress livestock management, education, and outreach.

The ranch operates on 36,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service land. The mission of the ranch is to strengthen public lands grazing in northern New Mexico.

Our Cattle
We make every attempt to raise our animals as naturally and as stress free as possible. Stress free animals produce tasty, healthy, lean meat. Pasture raised means they are grazed on open range and are never confined in a feedlot. We move them from pasture to pasture under a carefully planned rotation schedule using low stress management techniques. They are not given hormones or antibiotics.

Why Buy Local Pastured Beef?

• Health Benefits: Pastured animal products have been shown to be low in fat, cholesterol and calories, and high in Vitamin A, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), Omega-6 and Omega-3 fatty acids. (www.eatwild.com)
• Supports Local Farm and Ranch Families: Farmers and ranchers who sell directly to you receive the full value for their food, which means these families can afford to stay on the farm or ranch.
• Builds Community: Buying direct re-establishes a time-honored connection between the consumer and the grower.
• Preserves Open Space: The ranches and farms that remain will only do so if they are financially viable. Buying direct means you are being proactive about preserving the agricultural landscape.
• Supports Healthy Land, Water and Air and Benefits Wildlife: A well managed family ranch or farm builds fertile soil, clean water and promotes biodiversity. Healthy rangeland builds resilience and biodiversity in the ecosystem and 'captures' carbon dioxide. Buying local also reduces the overall carbon footprint by minimizing food miles. Ranch and farm habitats create large contiguous wildlife corridors.
• Cost: Prices are more affordable from your local producer than buying from the large chain stores that bring pasture raised/grassfed beef from far away. Transportation costs are only increasing.

Pasture Raised Beef
A whole beef, depending on how you choose to have it cut and which items you wish to save, will yield 200--250 pounds of packaged beef and require 10 cubic feet of freezer space. The beef will keep well for 1 year in a good, cold freezer. Animals vary considerably in their bone structure and consequently the final yield of packaged beef will vary. Numbers provided here are for example only.

A typical mix of cuts from a whole beef will include:
Steaks -- 28%
~ 2 tenderloin steaks
~ 2 chuck steaks
~ 8 round steaks
~ 6 rib steaks
~ 4 sirloin steaks
~ 6 T-bone steaks
Roasts -- 22%
~ 1 rump roast
~ 2 sirloin tip roasts
~ 2 arm roasts
~ 2 chuck roasts
Misc. -- 50%
~ hamburger
~ stew meat