by RanchFoodsDirect | Aug 3, 2015 | Newsletter
Back when farm-to-table marketing company Ranch Foods Direct was just a glimmer in owner Mike Callicrate’s eye, he began a lasting collaboration with author, writer and researcher Temple Grandin aimed at making ranch operations as humane for livestock as...
by RanchFoodsDirect | Jul 2, 2015 | Newsletter
Former environmental lawyer turned California cattle rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman says her book DEFENDING BEEF began as a handbook for chefs explaining why beef isn’t the environmental culprit it’s so often made out to be. At the time, Niman was serving on...
by RanchFoodsDirect | Jun 3, 2015 | Newsletter
The Denver chapter of the Slow Food Organization is hosting an international meat symposium and tasting fair June 4-6. Saturday’s “Slow Meat Fair” at the Auraria Campus near downtown will include free panel lectures as well as ticketed culinary...
by RanchFoodsDirect | Apr 2, 2015 | Newsletter
Catalyst. That’s the job title listed on Michael Brownlee’s business card. That’s also the role he hopes a new magazine will play in a long-term effort to shift the Colorado Springs economy toward more locally-owned growers and processors like Ranch...
by RanchFoodsDirect | Jul 1, 2014 | Newsletter
Bill Rogers, owner of Colorado’s Sweetwater Bison, shown above at upper right, donated a grassfed bison for a fabrication demonstration presented by the Rocky Mountain Institute of Meat during the first-ever Slow Meat conference in Denver. Rogers is among...