Founding Story of Colvin Ranch Provisions
The founding story of Colvin Ranch Provisions started many years ago right here in Tenino. Here's how our store came to be.
Author: Jennifer Colvin
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Taste Washington Day at Local Schools
Schools across the state celebrated Taste Washington Day by highlighting the programs and people working to bring locally grown and raised food to schools for delicious and nutritious scratch-cooked school meals.
Colvin Ranch Provisions Grand Opening
Join us to celebrate the grand opening of Colvin Ranch Provisions on September 19 from 3:00 - 5:00 pm. Come see our beautiful new store at the Tenino Agriculture Innovation Park, sample some of the delicious food from local producers that's made right here in Southwest Washington, try your hand at tasting hot sauce fresh from the HotBabes HotSauce production facility next door, and enter to win a $50 gift certificate to the store.
2025 Colvin Ranch Conservation Partner Award
Together with Natural Resource Conservation Service Acting State Conservationist David Rose, the Colvin family presented Marty Chaney with the Colvin Ranch Conservation Partner Award in recognition of more than 20 years of collaboration and partnership.
Grazing cattle are helping conserve the prairie
Using conservation grazing, we're able to strategically graze prairie habitats to get rid of excess grass and create the right environment for native plants to grow and thrive.
Prairie Appreciation Month
May is Prairie Appreciation Month, and we have a lot of appreciation to share for the prairies in Thurston County.
Long-Term Viability Of Agriculture In Thurston County
The long-term preservation of our agricultural lands is important not just to provide our community with the benefit of a strong local food system, but for all of the other benefits these lands provide to our community as well.
Colvin Ranch Day 2025
Come join us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of our NRCS conservation easement. We'll have live music, food, ranch tours, wildflower walks, and fun activities for kids.
Agriculture is more than just farmers
It takes a whole network of people, businesses, and infrastructure to get food from the field to your fork. Here's a snapshot of the agriculture-related people and businesses in our region who all contribute in some way to making it possible for us to sell the best grass-fed, grass-finished beef in our region.
Community Engagement in 2024
At Colvin Ranch, our mission is to take care of the land, animals, and people in our community. We accomplish this through conservation practices that enable us to produce healthy, high-quality meat for our community, while helping native plants and animals flourish alongside our livestock. In 2024, our focus was on community engagement. Here's a quick snapshot of what we accomplished with our small but mighty team.
A Conservation Legend
Over the past 20 years, we've worked closely with Marty Chaney, a pasture management specialist with NRCS, on the implementation of our grazing plans. I don't know whether it was by luck or chance that we ended up with Marty in our corner of the field, but it was certainly our good fortune.
Conservation Grazing At Violet Prairie
Since I was nine years old, I would look out my bedroom window every morning and dream about grazing cattle on the hill across from the ranch, on land that was originally part of our family's historic homestead in the 1850s. Today, that land is part of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Violet Prairie Unit, and I'm grateful to be working with them to help restore the native prairie here using conservation grazing with our cattle as a management tool.