Sunshine Beef

100% natural Grass-fed Beef. We sell by the cut or buy a quarter, half or whole cow!
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11/23/2025

Just went to a memorial service for my nearest neighbor, a gem of a woman in her early eighties whose contributions to the local community and broader region have been remarkably extensive. Her leadership and kindness are deeply missed, her life of public service and land stewardship profoundly inspiring. I started leasing her ranch several months ago. As many of the old-timers around my rural ranching neighborhood have passed on, I’m starting to realize that the mantle of being an elder is passing to my generation now. Feels like a big responsibility. I hope we can rise to fill the big shoes of people like Susan.

11/22/2025

Tranquility on the home ranch this misty morning

11/11/2025

We sorted some fat steers out to go to the processor, then moved the herd to fresh pasture. Dear old Django hobbled out to join us. He’s 13 years old and can barely climb up the couple of steps to the porch, but his incredible border collie devotion to herding overcame the infirmity of old age to compel his tottering legs to one last glorious cattle drive. What an amazing creature❤️

10/10/2025

Hard to believe this is an actual dimension of our real world

02/13/2024

So much variety in ranch work! Thursday last week I was in DC lobbying to ensure funding for conservation programs I use doesn’t get stripped out of the Farm Bill. By Friday afternoon I got back home and checked on my cattle. Saturday I sold and delivered a couple big loads of hay.

01/28/2024

The Western Colorado Soil Health and Food and Farm Forum conference in Montrose drew a great crowd of attendees the last couple of days. I presented a workshop on electric fencing. Felt great to give as well as receive. This slide from one of the keynote speakers sums it up!

01/16/2024

All in a day’s work!
- Delivering a cooler of beef to the local health food store I noticed this tableau.
- Then passed by this painted wall. Such a cool little town!
- Then mounted up to sort a couple beeves out of the herd for the next round of Sunshine Beef!

11/20/2023

One of the small ditches that brings water out of a mountain stream down to a ranch I lease had a stretch of it piped this late summer. A portion of the ditch that contoured across a steep rocky slope had slid out a few years ago. It was repaired but continued to leak dangerously. So now that whole section has been piped with funding provided by the Bureau of Reclamation. To mitigate the loss of riparian habitat along the old ditch, the project grant mandates habitat restoration somewhere else within the watershed. This is a snippet of what that looks like. A handful of ranchers spending a day planting native shrubs to help restore and diversify the riparian cottonwood forest along the North Fork River. ranching

10/18/2023

Sunset at the last outdoor Paonia Arbol Farmers Market yesterday. Was a great run of weekly markets May - October. Thanks to all who shop, organize, vend, make food and music. Now we’ll switch to monthly markets at the Hearth in downtown Paonia. Next one November 21st.

10/16/2023

Paonia’s first ever Pickle Festival was a huge success Saturday. We were honored to serve Sunshine Beef burgers to the happy crowd all day long!

10/10/2023

I’m honored to be the steward of about a half mile stretch of Smith Fork Creek. We grazed this meadow in June but fenced off the creek to let the trees and brush grow thicker. It’s looking good on this beautiful fall day!

09/30/2023

Sometimes a cowboy’s got to go to Washington to lobby for what he believes in. Public land conservation in Gunnison County! I joined a grassroots stakeholder working group 10 years ago as a representative for Backcountry Hunters & Anglers. Now we’re preparing to introduce legislation to accomplish the goal! Plus enjoying incredible Laotian and Ethiopian dinners out on the streets. Was great to get off the ranch for a few days!

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Crawford, CO
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