Buy a share of beef.

A share is a portion of one of our cattle, reserved before it's finished. The final price is set by the animal's hanging weight, known near pickup — about half down now, the balance at the butcher.

You'll hear from us the whole way: when your animal goes on feed, when the butcher date is set, and when the box is ready.

Local beef at a fair price.

Reserving a share isn't a checkout. It's putting your name on an animal months before it's ready and telling us how your family eats.

What you get is honest beef at a fair price, from people you can call by name. What we get is the ability to keep raising cattle this way — slowly, individually, on our own ground. Your money stays in the valley, a few miles from where the animal grazed.

Meet the Van Engens

We're both veterinarians. Nick came up in an Iowa cattle family and spent a decade in research learning what keeps an animal well; Kristen grew up spending time at her family's California ranch, caring for animals.

The herd here in the Treasure Valley is small on purpose. Daily eyes on every animal, a health record kept from the day it's born, handling calm enough that nothing runs. It's slower and it's more work, and it's the only version of this we know how to do. Our son Wes has been out at the ranch since he was six weeks old.

When you open the box, we can tell you which animal it was and where she grazed. That's the whole idea. Cows that were cared for, from our ranch to your table.

Reserve your share.

A deposit books the animal in your name. Final price is set by hanging weight, known near pickup — you'll have the exact figure before pickup day, so the deposit is the only thing due today.