A visit with Jim Gates of Nevada County Free Range Beef, Fall 2018

yeah [Music] [Music] I was born on the ranch in rough-and-ready and been country cows ever since that means in the 1880 vernacular do you do whatever needs to take care of them it doesn't mean this because you'd break this real quick [Music] they're out there they got all like and eat they're not confined other than the outside fence because I gotta have an outside fence because the Highway Patrol has a real dim view of the cattle running up and down Britney Springs Road okay [Music] one of the biggest obstacles is is processing we have to take our kettle to Reno because that's the closest USDA facility that allows me to sell beef to the public 50 years ago there were three plants just here in marriage [Music] I don't have any children so we're gonna this problem succession here is on everybody's mind right now what happens if I can't go anymore and we're right there right now because I had a health scare they've got City hey you've got a spot on your lung right here any Sara you know they don't think it's cancer but I think it's a story sure from one of the times I had pneumonia but you know it's a wake up call it somehow we got to do something and I I don't you know where do I find somebody that wants to work this hard because I mean you know you're looking at the crew I'm the welder you know I'm the fence man you know I'm the veterinary for the most part you know and all of that's right here we need somebody that will absorb some of that [Music] one of the best years I have ever seen last year for feet this grass grows two ways it grows in strength and it grows in stature sensor just means there's lots of it strength means that it fulfills the cows nutritional needs with just a little bit of it you know 16 we head on a huge Rainier at the end of the drum we had tons of grass last year we'll get less rain but it came cleaner breakfast at the right time and the grass was a whole lot stronger than anything we saw no.16 and the feed was just really strong they ain't the same at a grass but it grew twice as fast [Music] my philosophy about wrenching is quite simply that if we want open space quality of life we want the bald eagle the fold Eagle takes huge amounts of land these cattle have used about to lay this open space is quality for everybody in Nevada County and this green dress right here is fire protection for everybody that lives here it will not burn [Music] Stane and rib roast going into the briar patch have those poised take a hammer and crack goes rib bones so the marrow juice runs out on the roast as it's cooking pinging and don't eat any bitter net [Music] he's one of the happiest animals there is on the face of the earth [Music] can do without it [Music]

Channel: BriarPatch Food Co-op

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Rating: 4.8888888 out of 5

Keywords: nevada county, nevada county free range beef, jim gates, grass fed beef, grass fed, grass valley, nevada city, beef, cattle rancher, cattle ranching, perennial grasses

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Length: 5min 22sec (322 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 04 2018