Nourished by Nature

03/10/2024

We are looking for a responsible and eager individual to help us meet our goals of 100% accurate order fulfillment and effective, efficient egg washing/packing on a part time basis.

** Link to full job description can be found in our bio **

Applications will be accepted until March 24th

To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter to [email protected] with subject line: Application for Employment: [your name]

02/11/2024

We’re just about SOLD OUT of bulk beef bundles!

If this is something your family’s been thinking about, now is your chance to stock up. After the order deadline, we won’t have bulk beef available again until early July.

Benefits of buying in bulk:
• By far the most cost effective way to buy beef
• Receive a wide variety of cuts to cook and experiment with
• Overcome the hassle of frequent ordering and logistics
• Peace of mind that you have a long term supply of nutrient dense beef!

01/07/2024

Hands down-both our FAVORITE and LEAST FAVORITE animal on the ranch. They are the most entertaining to watch, curious, and adorable. They are also the most destructive, annoying, and difficult.

It’s a love hate relationship but today I was feeling the love so I got some good pics… and pork is delicious so that’s another reason we love our piggies!

10/13/2023

Fall things on the ranch 🍎🍁🍂

🍁fall cover crop of winter barley, triticale, vetch is coming up nicely 👍

🍄 giant mushrooms are growing everywhere 😮

🍎 we made our first batch of homemade apple sauce- super easy, recipe in bio!

🍏 we’re trying out a test batch of apple cider vinegar with the left over apple skins and cores. Follow for how to start your own batch!

09/09/2023

Announcing Mr. & Mrs. Paul Brown!!! 💍👰‍♀️🤵‍♂️

We took a little break from ranch life last weekend to make it official, looking forward to the rest of our lives together!

Huge shout out to .barstad and Art for watching the ranch while we were away!

08/18/2023

Recently, we had the privilege of hosting the team for a tour of the Brown’s Ranch.

We are thrilled to share our passion in Regenerative Agriculture with other likeminded individuals who are also committed to empowering others with whole body health. The connection between healthy soil and individual health is fundamental in promoting healthy ecosystems, including one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world—the one that lives in/on us. 🌱

06/30/2023

Trailing the naughty bulls home after they decided to pop the gate open and go for a walk through the neighbor’s last night. At least it was a beautiful morning.

Now they can sit in a corral for a day and think about their poor decisions 😅

06/27/2023

Take a moment to slow down, while you appreciate the beauty of Nature here at our Ranch 🌱😊

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06/18/2023

Happy Father’s Day! Here’s a throwback to Paul’s first bow deer circa 2006. Good quality father son time is always spent hunting or fishing 🦌🎣

Now that we raise all our own livestock, deer hunting isn’t quite as enticing but there will always still be the annual fishing trips to enjoy.

06/07/2023

The guard dog pups are getting big!! They are 7 weeks old now and ready to find their forever flocks.
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Their mom, Rona, guards the chicken flock and is excited to get back to work after having been on maternity leave 🤣
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This dad, Titan, guards the sheep flock and has been doing a good job managing his multiple duties.
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Currently, the pups’ favorite pastime is licking dinner off of someone else’s face after mealtime (photo #7).

05/23/2023

The regenerative ag community is in mourning after the sudden loss of one of the humble leaders in the field.

David, your easy-going, kind, and caring personality will be deeply, deeply missed. We hope that you are now at peace with your wife and send our condolences to the rest of the family.

We are heartbroken to learn of SHA co-founder and first SHA President David Brandt's recent passing. David's passion for helping farmers learn about soil health and for just helping farmers in general was inspiring. We were so blessed to be able to call him a friend and mentor. He was a caring, compassionate man who would call out of the blue just to see how you are doing and catch up on life. I will miss those calls and miss the ability to pick up the phone and ask for advice. I'm comforted in knowing that he is reunited with his beloved Kendra and they are no longer burdened by earthly disease and pain. I wish I would have known that this was the last "ya' know" I would hear. Jay Brandt and family, David will live on in our hearts and in all the knowledge we will pass on from the lessons and stories he shared.
- Dawn Breitkreutz, SHA President

05/18/2023

✔️Pullets (young hens) have arrived and are happily adjusting to the eggmobiles

✔️The 2023 Spring Great Chicken Roundup happened a couple of weeks ago which means all of our older hens have made it out on pasture.

(This usually involves a cold beverage or two as a warm-up 🤣🤣 )

Thankfully we were able to recruit some friends to help us gather the chickens at nighttime when they’re roosting!

✔️ Egg Shipping Bundles are now available for the summer season. (Link in bio)

For those of you who continuously buy eggs from us year round, you can look forward to brighter and deeper orange yolks as the hens enjoy their summer diet of insects, grasses and forbs!

05/15/2023

Today we honor and celebrate Moms—the women who bring forth and raise up generations, whose bodies served as our first homes in this life, the women whose work is often unseen but always felt, the ones who add beauty into the lives and homes of so many, for bringing family and friends together and cultivating a legacy with every nourishing meal, selfless act and faithful display of love—the world is a better place because of you, Happy Mother’s Day 🫶🏼☺️🌷.

Our Mother’s Day inspired breakfast features Nourished by Nature pasture raised eggs, maple breakfast sausages and pure maple syrup in a chocolate strawberry Dutch baby with homemade whip cream✨♥️ (tastes like a strawberry Nutella crepe) 😍
**three ingredient whipped cream recipe below

Homemade Whipped Cream Recipe:

•1/4 Cup heavy cream
•1-2 Tbsp maple syrup
•1/2 tsp vanilla extract

shake or combine ingredients in a blender bottle or stand/electric mixer until desired consistency

serve over a coffee or baked good for mom🤝

05/13/2023

Last week was a busy week! We’re grateful for getting the garden seeded, strawberry transplants planted, and waterline strung before the big ⛈️!

This is year two of seeding the main section of the garden with our no-till drill. We alternated with the peas, sweet corn, and beans from and a mix of oats, barley, hairy vetch, radish, sunflower, cucumber, buckwheat, a few watermelon and spaghetti squash for a cover crop (we basically threw in all of our old, unused seeds as an experiment- we’re curious to see what will come up!)

It’s a little tricky getting the spacing right but we’re hoping it’ll turn out decent. We’ll see 🤔

04/28/2023

That time of the year where we love to offer our fabulous customers the best deals on our Regenerative, Pasture-Raised Chicken ✨🐓

APRIL 30TH - MAY 7TH

**CHECK OUT OUR NEWSLETTER OR FOLLOW THE LINK IN OUR BIO TO OPT IN TO THE 2023 SPRING CHICKEN SALE**

04/25/2023

T minus…
18 days until calving 🐮
4 days until farrowing 🐖
and 0 days until lambing (lambing started last Friday!) 🐑

We’re counting down the days and taking good care of the mamas during this important time in their cycle. More baby pics to come!!

04/22/2023

Happy Earth 🌎 Day everyone!!

Here’s a photo to remind you of the difference that good soil can make!

Some of our friends gave our soil probiotic a trial run and so far so good with the seed starts.

Both plants in the photo were planted on the same day in the same place with same amount of water and sunshine. The larger one took longer to sprout but once it did, it’s grown roughly 4 times as fast.

For all you up in the northern plains, seed starts are a great way to get your hands in the soil before it’s possible to start planting outside.

04/09/2023

Dutch Baby Pancakes for Easter Brunch 🌻✨🐰

Gotta love those meals where you set out to make something “real quick” and then 3 hrs later you’re finally sitting down to eat your masterpiece!

These are a real simple combo of eggs, flour, salt, and butter for the baby plus some fresh herbs, garlic and Parmesan cheese on top— then whatever combo you want for the toppings. (Just look up a recipe online) Go hog wild!!

We did 3 savory variations:
1. Greek Baby (ft. lamb gyro meat and homemade basil cheese sauce)
2. Canadian Baby (ft. Canadian bacon and pasta sauce)
3. Mexican Baby (ft. Chorizo and chimichurri sauce)

Which one do you want to try??

04/01/2023

Well, as you all know by now, this winter’s been a long and tough one. (See our previous post about the challenges we’ve had with getting to our hay). A few days ago, we made the executive decision to sell our cows and trade them for the new and upcoming trend: Plant Based Meat!

See photo #1, our cattle leaving the yard
See photo #2, A semi load [of cattle] pulling back up into the yard.

April Fools! Funny thing is that our cattle actually ARE plant-based. They have a 100% vegetarian diet (thankfully, so we don’t have to be!) and thrive off of plants all year long.

Believe it or not, not all cattle are 100% plant-based. Products like blood and blood products (ie. blood meal), gelatin, and tallow are still legal to be fed in feedlots and are commonly used. So are feather and fish meal.

Bone meal also used to be allowed in ruminant feed until BSE became a public health issue in the US and it was banned by the FDA as a feed source.

These additives are also common in the dairy industry and fed to dairy cows to improve performance and milk production.

This is why it’s important to know your farmer/rancher and get your protein from a trusted source. Ruminants were not meant to eat animal by-products and these are simply used as a cheaper way to fatten cattle as quickly as possible for economic gain. Even though our cattle take much longer to finish, they live a longer and healthier life and we will always guarantee to raise 100% plant based beef! !

03/29/2023

Who’s ready to get their hands back into the soil ?? We can’t wait for this snow to melt so we can get on with spring already.

We would like to share the challenge we’ve had with bale grazing this year due to the outrageous amount of snow we’ve gotten.

So actually getting to the bales has been a real problem. We have about 100 bales sitting out on the pasture just south of our yard that we (or the cattle) haven’t been able to get to because of too much snow. (See photo that Ryan, our cattle manager, posted last week).

We are having to get creative so we don’t run out of hay while there’s still too much snow for the cattle to graze without any supplementation.

We’ve considered:
➡️renting an excavator (way too expensive)
➡️buying hay (not ideal for cash flow and we can’t get a semi up our driveway where the cows are bc of snow)
➡️ rent a snowmobile with packer attachment and pack the snow enough the cattle can walk on (not sure this would actually work)
➡️rent a snowblower to make a path to all the bales (one windy day could blow all the snow back into our paths)
➡️resurrect enough bales to feed our way to the bales. Going slow and steady to feed just enough that the cows and trample their way bit by bit to the remaining bales that are out there.

We’re trying the resurrection method! We’ll let you all know how it goes!

02/15/2023

We hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!

On honor of the holiday, we’ve launched our Referral Program to “Share the Regenerative Love” with you.

Step 1:
Login to your Nourished by Nature account and click "Referrals" at the top righthand side of the screen.

Step 2:
Copy the Referral Link to your clipboard.

Step 3: Email the link to anyone who doesn’t already have an account with us!

You can find the link in our bio to follow the 3 easy steps and get $15 store credit 💕👍

02/05/2023

One of the conversations we recently had with another producer that we were looking for a potential partnership with.. needless to say the conversation ended here.

We’re not sure what to say about this other than it’s really unfortunate to know that there are people out there totally bastardizing the word “regenerative”, specifically related to ag.

I’ve come up with my own definition of regenerative agriculture over the years and this is what I usually tell people:

“Regenerative agriculture uses the principles of nature to create an ecosystem within all the different enterprises on your farm or ranch.”

It’s cool that the new Tier 5 certification we’ve received uses many of the same concepts for their certification process.

The Regenified certification is a comprehensive system that guarantees each member of its program is making progress on:

🌱 6 Principles [of soil health]
🌱 3 Rules of [Compounding, Diversity, and Disruption]
🌱 4 Processes [of Ecosystems]

To learn more about the Regenified certification, you can follow the link in our bio!

01/12/2023

The amount of snow out there this winter has made it difficult to maneuver at times.

Needless to say our poly wire fences are easy to string with the right tools in even the harshest conditions.

This year’s favorite new tool: SHOWSHOES! 🎿

No more falling through snow banks with these bad boys. Job well done!

PRO-TIP: set your temporary posts in the fall, before the ground freezes. That way in the middle of winter, all you have to do is string the wire.

12/14/2022

Stay warm in the storm, everyone!

So far we’ve held off on our normal shipping orders and delayed Bismarck deliveries this week due to ice and snow. Stay tuned for when those orders will be rescheduled 👍

10/15/2022

Collecting samples for a research trial and the cattle wanted to know what Paul was up to!

Out on the native rangeland this time of year (after the frost), the cattle were mainly interested in blue grama, green needle grass, Kentucky blue, and the tippy tops of Russian olive branches!

08/11/2022

The look we get 10 mins after these naughty girls were chasing cattle around the pasture…🙅‍♀️🤦‍♀️ stick with the 🐓🐓, ladies!! It’s what you’re good at!

07/25/2022

Representing Bismarck and the local area! We’re happy to be part of this community.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗵'𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗯𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻, 𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱-𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗮𝗸𝗼𝘁𝗮 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲.
𝘎𝘢𝘣𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘎𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦, 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥. 𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴, 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘉𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘬-𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘯.

WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
I was born and raised in Bismarck and moved to our present location just east of Bismarck in 1983.

WHAT DO YOU DO?
I farm and ranch and am owner of a regenerative agriculture consulting company. I also founded a non-profit that focuses on educating farmers and ranchers as to regenerative agriculture.

WHAT IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE YOU'VE FACED IN YOUR JOURNEY, SO FAR?
From 1995-1998 we lost our crops to hail (3 years) and drought (one year). It was extremely difficult to continue farming but it ended up being absolutely the best thing that could have happened to us as it forced me to learn how to farm and ranch regeneratively.

WHAT IST HE MOST GRATIFYING PART OF WHAT YOU DO?
I get the most gratification when I hear from others as to how much more enjoyable and profitable it is for them to farm and ranch with nature instead of against her.

WHY BISMARCK-MANDAN?
I now travel extensively, spending over 275 days a year traveling around the world and there is absolutely no better place than Bismarck-Mandan. The people and the 4 seasons cannot be beat!

WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU OFFER SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO MAKE THEIR MARK HERE?
If you have the work ethic that is common amongst North Dakotans, there is absolutely nothing that you cannot accomplish in this state.
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Want to learn more about Brown Ranch and the regenerative farming movement? See http://brownsranch.us/
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𝐓𝐚𝐠 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤-𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲!

(𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐤-𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧? 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄! https://www.bismarckmandan.com/make-your-mark)

𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘬-𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘋𝘊.

07/04/2022

We’re celebrating the 4th with 2 inches of rain and happy cattle!! Thankfully it’s wet enough for fireworks this year, yahoo! Happy Independence Day everyone 🎆🙌🎇
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06/25/2022

We’re happy to share about the research teams that have come out so far this summer to gather samples of data for results that will help move the regenerative ag movement forward.
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Dr. Stephan Van Vliet and his team are working on a project that will further show the correlations between soil health, plant health, and animal health resulting in better meat quality.
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Dr. Jonathan Lungren and his team are looking at soil health and the outcomes of various perennial wheat varieties throughout the growing season.
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We’re excited about the work that they’re doing and are always happy to invite them onto our ranch!
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To some of us, using the principles of nature to grow nutrient dense food just makes sense. To others, it takes numerous studies PROVING the benefits and years of convincing that this is a viable way of producing food for future generations.

05/16/2022

Presenting a new development we’ve been experimenting with at the ranch…🚜

Salish Blue Perennial Wheat 🌾🌾

Yes, PERENNIAL. While out checking fields this weekend, we stopped and got some photos of the aggregates on the perennial wheat roots.

Pic 1: Root exudates and soil aggregates adhering to the roots

Pic 2: Time of emergence last fall

Pic 3: Our soil on the same plot versus neighbor’s no-till soil

Pic 4: Close up of our soil- looking pretty good! 😏