About Us

The old homestead

Our Approach

Our mission is to raise happy, healthy, grass-fed bison in a low-stress environment. We have 50-plus bison:

one mature bulls
16 cows
nine young bulls
14 young heifers

Our goal is to maintain the herd at its current size and to process some bulls each year for the meat side of our business.

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Home on the Range

Work brought us to the Kansas City area, and a desire for space had us buying farm ground and building a house smack-dab in the middle of it. We decided to become bison ranchers (read Getting started), and bought our first small herd in 2014.

Meet the Team

Diversity is important to us. Below, you will see representatives of all those that live and work on the ranch.

Family-Owned and -Run

We All Pitch In

Hail, hail, the gang's all here! Clockwise from left: Greg, Dylan, Katherine, Kevin and Jan. Building fences, managing bison, cleaning chicken coops—this group does it all!

Graham and Cracker

Resident Rodent Hunters

Graham and Cracker are brother and sister, adopted from Prairie Paws Animal Shelter near Ottawa. Graham and Cracker's favorite pastime is trying to catch birds. Graham teams with Apollo and Patches to catch moles.

Patches

Playful and Fun-Loving

Patches is our oldest dog. Our neighbor's Lab had pups, and we picked Patches out to be a friend for the other dog we had at the time.

Jerry

Our Herd Bull

Klemm came to the ranch from the Kansas Buffalo Association livestock auction in Salina, Kan., in December 2014. Weighing in at 955 lb when he was 18 months old, he has grown a lot since arriving. There's no doubt that he is king of the pasture.

Mama

One of Our Cows

This pretty girl is one of the first 12 heifers we brought home from the Custer State Park bison auction in November 2014. She was a yearling in 2014 and gave us our first calf (right) in 2016.

Baby

First Calf

This young heifer was born April 3, 2015, the first of five calves—four heifers and one bull—that were born on the ranch. She was a leader right from the start, and won Grand Champion heifer at the 2016 Kansas Buffalo (Bison) Association annual sale in December that year. She went to live with a couple just starting their bison herd in Missouri.

Apollo

Playful Pup

We adopted Apollo from a no-kill shelter. He is a love sponge. Apollo loves children (not in an "I'm going to eat you" kind of way), and even shared his kennel with my grand-nephew during a visit to Nebraska.

Rhode Island Red

Laying Hen

One of nine Rhode Island Red (Little Red Hen?) laying hens.

Buff Orpington