The Latest from Mariposa Ranch

Stocking Up: A Guide to Whole, Half and Quarter Beef

Lots of people call and ask me about getting a whole beef or quarter beef or generally stocking up on beef. It’s getting more and more popular and there are a lot of good reasons why. The problem is, most people don’t know where to start. I always do my best to help and over time I have found some really good questions for customers to ask themselves that will help determine how much beef they should or should not buy.

herding cattle on one of our ranches in Catheys Valley. Spring time brings green grass, fat cattle, and happy cowboys and cowgirls!

On Fridays, We Move Cattle!

One of the best parts about our charter school is that it allows us to home school our kids on Fridays. This provides opportunities for the kids to do things out of the ordinary on a school day, such as helping Dad out on the ranch. So when he can, the Head Cowboy does ranch activities on Fridays so the kids can help out.

I Lead a Double Life...

While I don’t actually lead a double life in the scintillating way you might have imagined when reading my title, I do in fact feel like I lead a double life. But I’m going to be honest here…CONFESSION TIME…I have a really hard time doing this. I want to present an honest picture of our life & I want to be interesting and real at the same time, but I feel that these things don’t converge.