08/04/2026
Square Mile Beef, Lamb and Venison 🤎
… an excerpt from today’s newsletter thanking you all for another incredible sales opening this year - and with an update on our meat shares still available for 2026!
“We are not children of the ground the same way the aspens or geese or steelhead are. We must continue to try and figure out how to participate in the natural world. The question is, quite literally, burning the ground around us. On May 1st of every year, as spring prospects, we ask you to home in on Square Mile Ranch and name us. We ask for you to raise your hand and say, “that animal to feed me please, from that place, by those hands, by these methods.” We ask not for a drive by, but for your direct attention. The world feels more and more like it is sliding by, we need to reach out and touch it. And you are.
It takes around 32 batch harvests per year to bring you all your meat: 8 beef on this day, 20 sheep on this day, 12 hogs on this day, this many chicken in whole and this many in cuts - repeat and repeat from summer through fall until around 50 beef, 90 hogs, 80 lambs and 3300 chickens have moved from our pasture to your plate. As each of your orders come in we plug your name into a specific harvest day, the day when the collective moments of that animal’s life find their transition.
Nature often works in volume - fungi, flocks, spawning - and appropriate scale is too a driver for us. Having your deposits come in a wave feels akin to the pulses in nature that move us from one season to the next. We had another incredible opening of sales in May - a bloom, a pattern, a nourishing reoccurrence - because you elect to be a part of it.
Thank you for calling out your choice and putting your deposit down — a modern offering to be worthy of the meat you’ll eat.”
