Riffle Farms

Grass-fed American bison meat. A veteran-owned small business operation tucked in the wild and wonderful mountains of West Virginia.

Co-Owner & Operator Jimmie Riffle was born and raised in Grafton, WV. Jimmie has always loved the outdoors and began exploring beyond WV as a teenager. His travels with friends took him one winter to Jackson, WY where he fell in love with the sights, snow, and the bison! Jimmie met his wife, Liz, while the two of them were active duty Navy Nurse Corps officers in Bethesda, MD taking care of Wounde

d Warriors. Their first vacation together was to none other than Jackson, WY. Liz fell in love with Jimmie, the sights, the snow, and thought he wasn't serious about the bison! Two years later the couple went back to Jackson to get married, and Jimmie wasted no time talking up some local bison farmers and meat processors to hone his own dream of having a bison farm. Liz jumped right in next to him! Now three years later, Jimmie and Liz are the very proud owners of a 64 acre bison farm located in Terra Alta, WV. This veteran-owned, small business is primarily run with fervor by Liz while Jimmie finishes up his career in the Navy. They hope to open the farm to the public and have their first meat harvest in the Spring of 2018! There are plans of a mobile "Bison Burger Bar" and barn venue in the years to come.

08/30/2026

Our 6th Annual Bison Roast is just 12 days away!!

Spit roasted bison + live music + chef prepared accoutrements + regional brews + good company

Luckily for you, we still have a handful of seats left phew 👉 SO GET YOURS!!

Link in bio or via our EVENTS tab on our website: www.rifflefarms.com

08/29/2026

“Bison is gamey”….😮😮😮

Not my bison.

And there’s a reason for that. 😉

An animal running on adrenaline right before harvest is burning through muscle glycogen and producing lactate. That pre-harvest stress changes what happens in the muscle after death — including how pH falls, how the meat holds water, and ultimately its tenderness and flavor.

And bison doesn’t have much room to hide mistake—Bison is incredibly lean. There isn’t a thick layer of intramuscular fat there to soften, dilute, or mask off-flavors.

Ahem…like beef. 😏

That’s one of the reasons we field harvest our bison.

No loading onto a trailer.
No hauling down the highway.
No unfamiliar facility.
No standing in a chute smelling and hearing animals ahead of them.
No last-minute adrenaline-fueled run.

One minute, that bison is standing in the pasture it knows.

The next, it’s gone.

The goal is an animal that never knows anything is happening — because humane harvest isn’t only an ethical decision.

You can taste good animal handling.

Stress before slaughter can deplete muscle glycogen, which alters normal postmortem acidification and meat quality. And when you’re working with an animal as lean as bison, there’s nowhere for poor handling to hide.

And yes — I personally harvest our bison.

Why I believe the person who raises the animal should be willing to be there for its final moment?

That’s a video for another day. 🦬

08/27/2026

There’s a LOT of entrepreneurial advice out there right now, but this one hit me.

And honestly, it’s the basis for why we keep swinging.

Family and friends thought we were crazy when we walked away from regular, consistent, high-demand, lucrative careers for…well, the unknown.

And some days, the unknown is VERY unknown. 😂

But you know what I do know?

Our kids love it.

They love riding around the farm. They love coming to the store. They know our employees, our customers, our animals, our vendors. They see Mom and Dad building things, fixing things, screwing things up, trying again, and figuring it out.

Most importantly, they get more of us.

Entrepreneurship hasn’t necessarily given us an easier life—and it certainly hasn’t given us a more predictable one.

But it has given us the ability to build our work around our family instead of constantly trying to squeeze our family into whatever was left after work.

Maybe someday all of these crazy ideas will make us rich. 😂

But if they give us a life where our kids grow up knowing their parents, working beside us, adventuring with us, and remembering that we were actually there?

That feels pretty damn rich already. ❤️

08/23/2026

Book tickets to an EVENT or STAY at www.rifflefarms.com/book-online

Bison Roast
Bison Field Harvest & Carcass Prep
Humvee Tours
Camping
Cabin Stay

08/17/2026

The Menu 🦬

For our 6th Annual Bison Roast Sept 12th with the Vagabond Chef Matt Welsch 😎

Live music and good brews 🍻

Get your tickets through link in bio or at : www.rifflefarms.com/book-online

08/16/2026

People love to talk about the leap.

Bet on yourself.
Take the risk.
Build the thing.
Chase the dream.

And yes — sometimes you absolutely should. (I do highly recommend it!)

But here’s the part of entrepreneurship we don’t talk about enough:

1 + 1 doesn’t always equal 2.

Sometimes 1 + 1 equals 5x.

Sometimes one person is taking the risk, building the business, trying the weird idea, failing, learning, starting again…

while the other person is quietly creating enough stability for all of that to be possible.

That steady paycheck didn’t just pay bills.

It bought us time.

Time to raise our babies.
Time to learn how to farm.
Time to build something before it was profitable.
Time to survive bad seasons.
Time to make mistakes without losing everything.
Time to keep going long enough for some of the crazy ideas to actually work.

Holistic management taught me to stop looking at things in isolation.

A farm is a system.
A family is a system.
A business is a system.

And the value created by the whole can be far greater than the value of each individual piece.

My willingness to take risks is part of our success story.

His willingness to create stability is the other half.

So when you see the entrepreneur out front taking the leap, remember there may be someone standing just outside the frame who made that leap survivable.

And sometimes that is the investment that changes everything. ❤️

Elizabeth Riffle

08/15/2026

Let Jimmie show you a sneak peak of our new “Ranch Cabin!”

Just listen to the crickets and that hot tub bubble 😌

www.rifflefarms.com/cabinstay

Riffle Farms Market & Co-op

08/12/2026

Jimmie is giving Rowdy a groom 😎

…although, she doesn’t seem all that thrilled 😬

Looks like my horse shedding blade comes in handy 😎

08/09/2026

Jimmie made the bed for you, really he did (with some coaching)!

Booking now!!

Come rest your head

Address

5160 Saltlick Road
Terra Alta, WV
26764

Telephone

+13045194588

Website

http://www.rifflefarms.com/

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