Oceanside Farmers Market Spotlight: SonRise Ranch

OCEANSIDE, CA — This week's Oceanside Farmers Market spotlight features the SonRise Ranch. They offer a great selection of beef, chicken and pork cuts, perfect for your next Bar-B-Q or if you just want good, naturally raised meat. They also provide an internship at their ranch in Thermopolis, WY for people interested in regenerative agriculture.

How SonRise Ranch started.

“Our Ranch started as a necessity and grew into a passion.”

Douglas and Eve Lindamood launched SonRise Ranch after Linda was diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder. They decided to try a more homeopathic route of changing what goes into her body. But then discovered another problem. Where do we find non-chemical foods? How do we cook them? How do we pay for all this? This set off the creation of SonRise Ranch.

Doug had ranching knowledge and they started with a couple of milk cows, some chickens and pigs. Within just a few years of setting off to grow only enough for their family, using regenerative agriculture principles, they are now feeding hundreds of others connected to them. They found that food does heal and the earth is bountiful and abundant. They are an all natural, regenerative, non-industrial, non-chemical, non-government subsidy funded family farm. They grow and sell, by the pound Grass-fed and Grass-finished Beef that never eat grain. They also employ a great team of dedicated folks with a passion for what they do.

The SonRise Ranch cattle live on lush green grass most of their lives, receive no grain and are handled often enough to prevent an adrenalin rush each time they see a human. This lack of adrenalin produces great tasting beef. They don’t receive any hormones; antibiotics and don t eat any GMO commodity crops, during their entire 24 to 27 months.

Intern at the SonRise Ranch in Wyoming

The Apprenticeship program is designed as a Summer “Try out” wherein a very few select individuals will live full time at SonRise Ranch. With successful completion, an apprentice will have learned enough in Cattle, Hog and Chicken operations to grow their own supply of sustainably raised organic food. A select number of apprentices will be offered an internship position. These positions last one full year and include Room, Board and a Stipend. Graduates of the program will be offered either paid full-time positions at SonRise or the opportunity to begin a Satellite Ranch Operation that partners with SonRise for production.

They believe their program, repeated by thousands of Small Farms and Ranches across the country is the ultimate solution to conquering the prison-like Industrial Farming complex that has emerged from the mega-powerful corporations that control food production in our Country.

Where can I get some?

You can find SonRise Ranch at the Oceanside Farmers Market every Thursday on Pierview Ave. They have a great selection of beef cuts, pork sausage and many other cuts to please most all palettes. Can’t make it on Thursdays? You can also get their meats from the SonRise Ranch website store.

“I have often described Grass-fed as a super-highway with a bunch of "on-ramps". We get so many people, from various walks of life to join us - it's really amazing...

Foodies, love the taste, I mean where can you get dry-aged beef anymore?

Environmentalists love the low impact to the environment. Conventional Beef is so hard on the ecosystem most environmentalists don't eat it just as a matter of principle.

Concerned Mothers, who don't want their kids eating pink slime, antibiotic ridden beef and gross pork.

Those Concerned With Animal Welfare, who want animals to be raised properly, killed with dignity and fed right so they don't live a tortured life.

Cross-fit / Paleo dieters, who are eating tons of meat and need the absolute best for their fitness program and Paleo lifestyle.

Anyone with a conscience.”

-Douglas Lindamood

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