Grill: Open Tue-Sun 11am-8:30pm (Closed Mon), Market: Open Daily 9am-7pm
At James Ranch, seven vibrant enterprises are thriving, offering pasture-raised foods, hands-on homestead education, and restful lodging on and near the ranch. Discover more about each one in the sections below.
Our beef is 100% grass fed and finished-no grain or feedlots. Our beef marketed to you is grown naturally and receives no hormones, or antibiotics. Our cattle are kept together and rotated often to simulate the grazing patterns of ancient herds maintaining natural balance in grasslands.
Learn About Our Beef
Our cheeses are truly raw and truly 100% grass-fed. We make cheese seasonally - only when our cows are on green grass. Because most of our cheeses are aged, we have this exceptional, tasty cheese for you year round.
Learn About Our Cheese
Not only do we all love eating these fresh, nutrient dense, clean eggs laid by such fortunate chickens, it is an absolute pleasure working with them and witnessing their healthy, clean, and protected lives.
Learn About Our Eggs
We grow an array of vegetables and flowers, along with perennial crops of rhubarb, black currants, plums, apples and apricots.
Learn About Our Gardens
Our native tree farm specializes in mature, towering (10ft to 20ft) Colorado Blue Spruce which have been nurtured in the pastures of the James Ranch since 1978, kissed by the Colorado sun and watered with the Animas River.
Learn About Our Trees
Join us at the James Ranch to learn some of the most valuable and underrepresented skills in the modern day. We provide a healthy environment for kids to grow and express themselves in the outdoors.
Learn About Homestead School
We offer three clean and beautiful rentals at James Ranch. The Historic Cottage that built in the late 1800s and updated to have all the conveniences of modern living, The Cabin is the perfect couples get-away, and the Forest Retreat is a large, secluded home.
Learn About Our Lodging