Welcome to Stonehaven Bison Ranch….where the buffalo roam.
Periodically throughout the year, the Kansas Buffalo Association has general membership meetings. When we first considered going into the bison business, we attended our first meeting at then-KBA President Ryan Hanna’s ranch. It felt a little awkward just showing up, but we were really glad we went because we learned a lot. It’s not so much…
“Good fences make good neighbors” is a proverb Robert Frost popularized in his 1914 poem “Mending Wall”. People have argued the intent behind Frost’s poem, depending on whether they liked the idea of fences or didn’t, but one thing is certain, fences make a lot of sense when it comes to livestock. We’ve built a…
If you’ve looked in our image gallery, you’ve seen pictures like the one at left of us giving the bison some type of feed. These pellets contain compressed vitamins and minerals and are commonly referred to as range cake or range cubes. Bison primarily eat grass. In the winter, grass is less plentiful and nutritious…
Every good ranch has to have a name. At least, that’s what my husband and I decided when we finally figured out we wanted to be bison ranchers. We polled the family and ended up with several possibilities: Bison in the names makes sense, but what’s with rocks and stones? Well, it turns out that…
We’re late bloomers. After several school- and job-related moves, we found a place we wanted to put down roots and found a spot of dirt to put them in: In 2003, we bought farm ground five miles south of Paola, Kan. There followed several years of house-building and -finishing (we’re still working on that part) before…
