Colvin Ranch

Colvin Ranch The Colvin Ranch is a fifth generation family owned and operated cattle ranch in Tenino, Washington.

Beef and pork sides are available for reservation through our website. Individually packaged beef cuts can be purchased through our online store for local pickup in Tenino or Tumwater, and from the Olympia Food Co-op stores, Spuds Produce stores, and the Tacoma Proctor Farmers' Market.

Not ready to commit to a whole or half beef share? The CSA Beef Box is a lower-commitment way to get to know Colvin Ranc...
08/27/2026

Not ready to commit to a whole or half beef share? The CSA Beef Box is a lower-commitment way to get to know Colvin Ranch beef.

You purchase your share upfront at a discounted price, then get regular deliveries throughout the year — about 12 pounds each time, four times a year, available for pickup in March, June, September, and December.

Every box includes 4 pounds of ground beef, 4 steaks, 1 roast, and a few rancher's-choice extras, so you get to try cuts you might not think to order on your own.

Four boxes for the year comes out to $575, paid upfront for the best pricing and guaranteed delivery.

Sign up here: https://shop.colvinranch.com/store/product/csa-beef-box

Reserving a bulk beef or pork share from Colvin Ranch is more straightforward than people expect.Here's how it works: re...
08/25/2026

Reserving a bulk beef or pork share from Colvin Ranch is more straightforward than people expect.

Here's how it works: reserve your share and select your size, the ranch confirms availability and timing, your order gets processed and cut to your specifications, and you're notified when it's ready for pickup.

That's it — no middleman, no guesswork about where it came from.

Save this post if you've been thinking about it, and reach out anytime with questions.

https://shop.colvinranch.com/store/meat-shares

This is what a summer day actually looks like on Colvin Ranch — the parts that don't usually make it into a caption. No ...
08/23/2026

This is what a summer day actually looks like on Colvin Ranch — the parts that don't usually make it into a caption. No script, no filter, just the ranch in late summer, doing what it does every year around this time.

We source the pork we sell from Pure Country Farms, a family-run operation in Washington run by the Klingeman family. Th...
08/19/2026

We source the pork we sell from Pure Country Farms, a family-run operation in Washington run by the Klingeman family. Their pigs are a heritage cross of Yorkshire, Berkshire, and Duroc, raised in open hoop and shed structures with natural bedding and full access to the outdoors.

They dine on a diet of non-GMO grain — wheat, barley, triticale, peas, and flax, most of it grown right on the farm — with no corn, no soy, no added hormones, no antibiotics. Pure Country was the first pig farm in the U.S. to earn non-GMO certification from FoodChain ID, back in 2014, and the first to become Food Alliance Certified, a standard that covers everything from humane animal treatment and fair labor practices to soil, water, and wildlife habitat conservation.

It's a different standard than most pork on the market, and it's why Colvin Ranch trusts them as a sourcing partner. Worth knowing next time you're deciding what goes in the freezer. Pork shares are available.

Convenience food is fast. Local food asks something of you — a little more planning, a little more effort, sometimes a l...
08/17/2026

Convenience food is fast. Local food asks something of you — a little more planning, a little more effort, sometimes a little more money. It's easy to frame that as a tradeoff between convenience and connection, like you have to give up one to get the other. But most people who buy from Colvin Ranch aren't choosing inconvenience for its own sake. They're choosing to know where their food came from, who raised it, and how. That's not the harder choice. It's just a different kind of easy.

The case at Colvin Ranch Provisions has more range than people expect. Right now it's stocked with a culotte roast — a l...
08/13/2026

The case at Colvin Ranch Provisions has more range than people expect. Right now it's stocked with a culotte roast — a lesser-known cut, tender and full of flavor, great whole on the grill or sliced into steaks — and yes, beef tongue, for anyone who wants to cook something a little different this week.

If that's not exactly your speed, the case has you covered too: New York strip, porterhouse, ribeye, flank steak, and hanger steak are all in stock as well. Adventurous or classic, there's a cut worth grabbing at Colvin Ranch Provisions in Tenino.

A lot of beef gets called "grass-fed" and stops there — but grass-fed only tells you what an animal started on."Finished...
08/11/2026

A lot of beef gets called "grass-fed" and stops there — but grass-fed only tells you what an animal started on.

"Finished" is the part that actually determines flavor and quality: whether that animal spent its entire life, right up to the end, eating grass and forage instead of being moved to a feedlot for a grain diet in its final months.

Grass-finished means no shortcuts at the end. It's a slower, more deliberate way to raise beef, and it's a big part of why Colvin Ranch beef tastes the way it does.

A freezer full of grass-finished beef and pasture-raised pork doesn't happen by accident. It takes a little planning ahe...
08/05/2026

A freezer full of grass-finished beef and pasture-raised pork doesn't happen by accident. It takes a little planning ahead.

As summer winds down, now's a good time to think about reserving a beef or pork share before the fall rush hits.

No pressure, no countdown clock, just a nudge to plan ahead if stocking the freezer is on your list this season.

Details and reservations are available through the online store 👉 https://shop.colvinranch.com/beef-share-guide

Fifty years on the same ground doesn't mean fifty years of doing things the same way.Some things on Colvin Ranch have ch...
08/03/2026

Fifty years on the same ground doesn't mean fifty years of doing things the same way.

Some things on Colvin Ranch have changed on purpose — rotational grazing patterns, water systems, how pastures get rested and rebuilt. Other things have been left alone on purpose too: stretches of land that don't get touched, decisions made generations ago that still hold up today.

The land looks different than it did fifty years ago, but not because it was neglected. It’s because it was managed, deliberately, season after season, by people who plan to still be doing this fifty years from now.

Come see us in the beef barn at the Thurston County Fair - say hi to Storm the bottle calf, and check out Karsten’s stee...
07/30/2026

Come see us in the beef barn at the Thurston County Fair - say hi to Storm the bottle calf, and check out Karsten’s steer Sebastian before the Thurston County Youth Market Animal Sale youth market animal sale on Saturday at 6 pm!

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