I appreciate this video as someone who knows very little about ranch life, recently though I feel drawn to it, thank you Molly for sharing your experiences, I'm excited about learning more. It seems more people are openly discussing being better stewards of the planet, rather than using chemicals to do the work they are working with nature to develop a healthier more productive industry. Instead of a few corporations making the money and we end up with poor quality foods and soil that can't support life, now it's about how we all benefit from healthier farming practices. I see the earth thriving as a result of the changes. Thank you for the work you're doing.
Molly you are a living legend of great courage & tenacity. May you run the Ranch for a very long time yet. Living on the land with animals is an incredible honour. Life on a farm can also be brutal when Mother Nature turns bad. Only the brave can then make a come back. Douglas from Down Under
I love this . Just keep it up .I am 82 and have a lot of ranching friends in Jorden Vally Ore. they work hard and they are some of the best people around May GOD bless you thanks
The beauty of that ranch is absolutely spectacular. I hope you have many years of enjoying it, working the cows and doing all of the chores and enjoying the quiet and peacefulness of that most beautiful place.
I grew up on a ranch with cattle and farming until I was 18 and joined the USAF. After discharged I took a job.That was 50 yrs. ago and I regret not going back to ranching. I missed it every year I didn't go back to it. Your ranch is very beautiful
Hello Molly , Dan Hathaway from Conboy Lake . good for you , you are proof there is life after USFWS . One of the best lessons I retained from my short tenure with USFWS was how to develop property for a sustainable future . Love seeing your story and your struggle , it is real but rewarding .
Thanks for sharing your experiences! We are also on a ranch, all though a lot smaller. We use sheep for grass control and we still pre fire season burn corridors. If we don’t burn it ourselves, someone will burn it for us at the least opportune time.
It takes a sick man to not leave his kids his legacy. I know there are family with problems, but this family has done right and lived a straight life no reason to treat them like red headed step child when there are even ways around treating family dirty if they aren't completely on the straight and narrow
@@brandondrew-c4t I agree. I met a man in RI who donated 3,000 acres to a number of groups. The nature conservatory, the Audubon society, and the State of RI. I told him, I was glad he gave his land to conservation groups and he said, these groups are not what you think they are. The Audubon society was selling house lots along the road. The Nature Conservatory were giving him lots of trouble because he wanted them to close the gate accessing the property. He told me they were nothing but a bunch of Boston lawyers. So, I'm glad the property went to family.
I was visiting friends in Denver in 2016. She is a doctor of medicine, a single child raised on a Cattle Ranch. Her Mother had passed, her Father had over 4,000 acres. He continued to run the ranch in his 80s, he had 1 hand who had been with him for 10 years. The daughter was in the throes of “heart-searching” he medical “career” in Denver OoR back to the ranch. You will never guess what she decided! She went back to school and qualified as a Vet! On the basis she could generate her income from veterinary practise much better than from medicine if she returned to the ranch. She hasn’t looked back, the veterinary practise has thrived, the ranch has prospered, she has diversified into some tree crops and has planted fodder crops while reducing the herd to manageable proportions and converted to a stud operation.
That's so cool, as a woman I love seeing other women just following their dreams. And as a married woman, I just love how your husband is so supportive of you and helped you with something he doesn't really want to do. That shows the love he has for you more than words could ever express! Just amazing. Out of curiosity: do you have any RV hook up so people from the city who are interested into learning, can come by, stay for a few weeks and help you with chores?
Something wrong when fire fighters don't know what to do what ever district.and say there nothing out there !? , Where do people think food come from ??? . We have become foolish all around . Nice to know the land can and is being restored by this nice lady .
Beautiful ranch land, I wish I could donate my time to help, but in Texas Also when the market price is bad, sometime selling straight to the package maybe a better deal, sometimes Also Superior out of Texas is very good market to have your cattle sold
We have fire districts and volunteer fire departments in Washington but it still requires that the locals organize into districts with the taxing authority etc..
Great breakdown of some of the struggles for small to mid size operations. Wa. much like Oregon and especially California have a few highly populated urban centers, with most being on the I-5 corridor. None of these urban areas produce ANYTHING for basic survival, so there is a disconnect when it comes to voters and legislator coherence to how Kroger and Safeway get groceries to the store. Ignorance along with technology have hamstrung the farming and ranching operations along with decades of crap science around the use of chemical agents for row crop and silage production. Great to hear Molly and Dave are trying to regenerate and scale the operation to a place that likely looked like it did back at the turn of the 20th century. Best of luck to the both of you.
If you own those cliffs I would look at using those cliffs to bring more water to your farm and also perhaps some terraces with different vegetation plus fruit and vegetables and some mountain animals...
Ms. Molly - Have you ever seriously considered keeping a small & premium cow-calf operation, as a part of your operation - and multi-generationally breeding a naturally genetically selective "arid land, organically sustained" breeding stock for sale? You've got a great parcel of land for that, and it could be exciting/interesting to spend a number of years successively breeding a "new" heritage breed beef stock, in these "new" conditions. Could be great - if not a worthy passing of the good years.
Wondering if you could partner with a university to have student work for you ! They pay students- insurance and everything. They develop curriculum and you get feee help? 🤠 Might need permits etc for a bunkhouse or other seasonal housing. The build could be another student project 🤔
I can't see being given 6000 acres, 125 cows and whatever it took to run the place that you never took anything out for yourself especially in good years like the last 10. Must have been some real poor investment choices.
@@ruthbessey8875 haters? I too farm 150 head of cattle but was never given any land, equipment or livestock and still made a profit even with 14% intrest and BSE
I believe she said that the place was in disrepair and needed a lot of fixing, especially fencing, probably outbuildings as well. She put all of her income into rebuilding the ranch and now she’s ready to start taking some out for herself. That sounds like good sound business to me! Remember when she said she lost roughly $283,000 because of fire. And 6000 acres is a tremendous amount of acreage to take care of.
Thank you got deleting ny comment explaining how with 14% intrest, renting 4500 acres owning 160 with the same amount of cows all on borrowed money cuz i was never given even 1 cow I still raised my kids and lived off the farm even with the BSE embargo.
Molly, you are the reason America is great. Please take care of yourself and your ranch. Only in America 🇺🇸
I appreciate this video as someone who knows very little about ranch life, recently though I feel drawn to it, thank you Molly for sharing your experiences, I'm excited about learning more. It seems more people are openly discussing being better stewards of the planet, rather than using chemicals to do the work they are working with nature to develop a healthier more productive industry. Instead of a few corporations making the money and we end up with poor quality foods and soil that can't support life, now it's about how we all benefit from healthier farming practices. I see the earth thriving as a result of the changes. Thank you for the work you're doing.
Molly you are a living legend of great courage & tenacity. May you run the Ranch for a very long time yet. Living on the land with animals is an incredible honour. Life on a farm can also be brutal when Mother Nature turns bad. Only the brave can then make a come back. Douglas from Down Under
What a great story beautifully told!
I love this . Just keep it up .I am 82 and have a lot of ranching friends in Jorden Vally Ore. they work hard and they are some of the best people around May GOD bless you thanks
The beauty of that ranch is absolutely spectacular. I hope you have many years of enjoying it, working the cows and doing all of the chores and enjoying the quiet and peacefulness of that most beautiful place.
IT IS BEAUTIFUL, GLAD YOU HAVE IT, KEEP IT.
Excellent video - Thanks!
I grew up on a ranch with cattle and farming until I was 18 and joined the USAF. After discharged I took a job.That was 50 yrs. ago and I regret not going back to ranching. I missed it every year I didn't go back to it. Your ranch is
very beautiful
Hello Molly , Dan Hathaway from Conboy Lake . good for you , you are proof there is life after USFWS . One of the best lessons I retained from my short tenure with USFWS was how to develop property for a sustainable future . Love seeing your story and your struggle , it is real but rewarding .
Excellent! I know how hard you work! Great interview.
Well done
Everyone needs to watch this. Thank you 🙏. Reality.
Thank you for taking on the task, much love at you.
This lady is a gem..i can see her passion for farm living..God bless her heart and let her dignity blanket all farm women of America.🇺🇸
So delightful to see you understand soil and it’s impact on the livestock….same goes for people….
Your one tuff lady. Much respect and your to be commend greeting from south Carolina
Nice to see your work!
Congrats from Chile.
We drove up the Moses Cooley a few years ago. Liked the rock formations.
Great piece
God bless you, folks .
Very impressive and beautiful operation!
Beautiful valley!
Thanks for sharing your experiences! We are also on a ranch, all though a lot smaller. We use sheep for grass control and we still pre fire season burn corridors. If we don’t burn it ourselves, someone will burn it for us at the least opportune time.
Keep the ranch in the family.
It takes a sick man to not leave his kids his legacy. I know there are family with problems, but this family has done right and lived a straight life no reason to treat them like red headed step child when there are even ways around treating family dirty if they aren't completely on the straight and narrow
@@brandondrew-c4t I agree. I met a man in RI who donated 3,000 acres to a number of groups. The nature conservatory, the Audubon society, and the State of RI. I told him, I was glad he gave his land to conservation groups and he said, these groups are not what you think they are. The Audubon society was selling house lots along the road. The Nature Conservatory were giving him lots of trouble because he wanted them to close the gate accessing the property. He told me they were nothing but a bunch of Boston lawyers. So, I'm glad the property went to family.
I was visiting friends in Denver in 2016. She is a doctor of medicine, a single child raised on a Cattle Ranch. Her Mother had passed, her Father had over 4,000 acres. He continued to run the ranch in his 80s, he had 1 hand who had been with him for 10 years. The daughter was in the throes of “heart-searching” he medical “career” in Denver OoR back to the ranch. You will never guess what she decided! She went back to school and qualified as a Vet! On the basis she could generate her income from veterinary practise much better than from medicine if she returned to the ranch. She hasn’t looked back, the veterinary practise has thrived, the ranch has prospered, she has diversified into some tree crops and has planted fodder crops while reducing the herd to manageable proportions and converted to a stud operation.
Do you know the name of her ranch??
Very interesting. Good to see you have a good handle on this special farm.
That's so cool, as a woman I love seeing other women just following their dreams. And as a married woman, I just love how your husband is so supportive of you and helped you with something he doesn't really want to do. That shows the love he has for you more than words could ever express! Just amazing. Out of curiosity: do you have any RV hook up so people from the city who are interested into learning, can come by, stay for a few weeks and help you with chores?
AMAZING STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks!
Something wrong when fire fighters don't know what to do what ever district.and say there nothing out there !? , Where do people think food come from ??? .
We have become foolish all around .
Nice to know the land can and is being restored by this nice lady .
I would've been nice if Molly gave a tour of her house 🏠
Beautiful ranch land, I wish I could donate my time to help, but in Texas
Also when the market price is bad, sometime selling straight to the package maybe a better deal, sometimes
Also Superior out of Texas is very good market to have your cattle sold
Good morning from Romania, I greet you with respect Marius, help, what are you doing, it looks very nice 🐂🙏🙋🤠🇷🇴🕳️
Try to graze those high spots where lightning will hit earlier in the year. Then there would not be as much grass for fuel to burn.
No services no taxes, period!
Thanks Molly for your interesting story good to see rotational grazing the USA. For New Zealand dairy grazing systems see The Once a Day Farmer 300 c
Well done. My dream.
I wouldlove to live there or a ranch that I could rent a couple of acres and in return could work and my 2 grown children could live that ranch life.
Molly I believe we have lived in the same area.
I’ve been in a fire. Most frightening thing ever. They move so quickly it’s unbelievable.
We lived on Billingly ranch at the head of the coulee
In Tx we have volunteer fire departments that fight fire
Interestingly enough, one of our fire chiefs up here(PNW) was employed in Texas prior and is a proponent of helping us ranchers.
We have fire districts and volunteer fire departments in Washington but it still requires that the locals organize into districts with the taxing authority etc..
Great breakdown of some of the struggles for small to mid size operations. Wa. much like Oregon and especially California have a few highly populated urban centers, with most being on the I-5 corridor. None of these urban areas produce ANYTHING for basic survival, so there is a disconnect when it comes to voters and legislator coherence to how Kroger and Safeway get groceries to the store. Ignorance along with technology have hamstrung the farming and ranching operations along with decades of crap science around the use of chemical agents for row crop and silage production. Great to hear Molly and Dave are trying to regenerate and scale the operation to a place that likely looked like it did back at the turn of the 20th century. Best of luck to the both of you.
We used to live on the Rudd ranch at Palisades, Washington. You live more towards Waterville, right
If you own those cliffs I would look at using those cliffs to bring more water to your farm and also perhaps some terraces with different vegetation plus fruit and vegetables and some mountain animals...
Ms. Molly - Have you ever seriously considered keeping a small & premium cow-calf operation, as a part of your operation - and multi-generationally breeding a naturally genetically selective "arid land, organically sustained" breeding stock for sale? You've got a great parcel of land for that, and it could be exciting/interesting to spend a number of years successively breeding a "new" heritage breed beef stock, in these "new" conditions. Could be great - if not a worthy passing of the good years.
6000 acres, that's not a ranch that is a small kingdowm, you are very lucky people I hope you know that.
Like open Natures .
Wondering if you could partner with a university to have student work for you ! They pay students- insurance and everything. They develop curriculum and you get feee help? 🤠
Might need permits etc for a bunkhouse or other seasonal housing. The build could be another student project 🤔
Where do I send my resume ? I'm 62 been working farm and ranch all my life ' now I'm stuck in a town. Want out !!!
I'd work for free. But I would have to plan for it. Retired!
Do you need a ranch hand ive owned cattle. Horses and have worked a couple of cattle ranches. All i need is a tack room to live and to eat
What state are you in?
Molly are you on the Gordon Goldie old place
Maa Shaa Allah
We don't know what state???
Washington
Disregard it was just mentioned!
Voi 1 persona a lavorare con esperienza ?
I can't see being given 6000 acres, 125 cows and whatever it took to run the place that you never took anything out for yourself especially in good years like the last 10. Must have been some real poor investment choices.
Oh, the ignorance of haters.
@@ruthbessey8875 haters? I too farm 150 head of cattle but was never given any land, equipment or livestock and still made a profit even with 14% intrest and BSE
Interested in your data and analyses. Please share more.
I believe she said that the place was in disrepair and needed a lot of fixing, especially fencing, probably outbuildings as well. She put all of her income into rebuilding the ranch and now she’s ready to start taking some out for herself. That sounds like good sound business to me! Remember when she said she lost roughly $283,000 because of fire. And 6000 acres is a tremendous amount of acreage to take care of.
Thank you got deleting ny comment explaining how with 14% intrest, renting 4500 acres owning 160 with the same amount of cows all on borrowed money cuz i was never given even 1 cow I still raised my kids and lived off the farm even with the BSE embargo.