Welcome to Valley Vision Ranch
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."~ MLK
Valley Vision Ranch is a family-owned ranch focused on stewarding our land and animals to produce "Real, Living Food" and natural products to serve the people of our community and region. We believe local, sustainable farming and agriculture are essential to the future of our world and our health, and we believe we have been called to help heal our land and our bodies by working together with the animals and what they produce for our incredible benefit.
About
Valley Vision Ranch is a family-owned, multi-faceted ranch that focuses on serving people with what we've been given. We believe that local, sustainable farming and agriculture is a must for the future of our world and our health, and we believe we have been called to be part of the solution to healing our land and healing our bodies! We have many different aspects to what we do. Chad focuses on horsemanship training and using his horses to manage our land and animals. Crystal serves people from her kitchen, making and selling hard-to-find raw products, both cow and goat, and enjoys teaching about the difference between eating raw, living, and organic foods. We are in essence students ourselves and love to learn how to make what we do better, and how to better steward what has been given to us. With 3 young children of our own, this is imperative, and it's personal. We invite you to join us on our journey!
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Our Story:
In 2009, way before we moved to the ranch we own today, a city friend from Texas told us we reminded her of the farmer featured in the documentary "Food Inc." We had not seen the film, and so we smiled unknowingly at each other. A year later, we came across the film on Netflix...and that was the beginning. Or maybe we should say that was the end. It was the end of eating at McDonald's. It was the end of our "free range" chickens being held in a chicken lot. It was the end of traditional farming methods...and it was the beginning of hope for us with our dream of sustainable living. Now it is an honor to be compared to the great Joel Salatin, the featured farmer in the documentary. What he has done for the rest of us paved the way. He showed us that healthy, sustainable farming can and should be done! Our cows are raised 100% using regenerative farming practices on ecologically friendly, maintained native grass pastures...no pesticides and herbicides are sprayed. They are given free choice natural mineral and kelp, and are NOT given antibiotics or hormones. Our layer chickens are rotated in our egg-mobiles every day to new fresh grass. Our pastured poultry, when raising our broilers, are moved twice a day to fresh grass to raise some of the healthiest chicken meat available. Our milk is never pasteurized, and our dairy animals are turned out to fresh grass except while being milked in the station. Please enjoy reading more about who we are and what we are about, but even better, come and visit The Ranch House in Van Buren, MO!
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The Ranch Store
Horsemanship
Job 38:1, Job 39:19-24: "Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said... Have you given the horse strength? Have you clothed his neck with thunder? Can you frighten him like a locust? His majestic snorting strikes terror. He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; He gallops into the clash of arms. He mocks at fear, and is not frightened; Nor does he turn back from the sword. The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and javelin. He devours the distance with fierceness and rage; Nor does he come to a halt because the trumpet has sounded."
"Horsemanship is the art of mastering our own movements, thoughts, emotions, and behavior." ~Ray Hunt
"You've got to give something you never gave to get something you never had" ~Ray Hunt
TRAINING:
Training and working with horses is like learning to overcome life's obstacles. How we address and confront issues in life such as fear, control, impatience, and misunderstanding directly correlates with how we interact with our horse, and sometimes this interaction needs some help, or even a "re-start." Using methods heavily influenced by the vaquero-style cowboy tradition, Chad, and now his up and coming sons, take horses on a month-by-month basis. In an effort to build and create a new language built on trust, Chad looks to establish a healthy working relationship between the horse and owner. He encourages the owner to come and watch training sessions, learn about this new relationship so that they can be as much a part of the effort towards change as the horse himself.
Contact:
E-mail: johnsonhorsetraining@gmail.com
Phone Number: (1) 573-512-0391
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Living Food From The Farm
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- GRASS FED BEEF
- PASTURED CHICKEN
- COWS MILK PRODUCTS: Raw Milk, Yogurt, Artisan products (including Jalapeno, Date & Pecan, Basil Pesto, Mediterranean, etc.)
- GOAT MILK PRODUCTS: Milk, Chevre, Artisan products (including Herbed Cranberry, Chocolate Chip, etc) and Goat Milk Soap (see Apphia tab above),
- PROBIOTICS: Yogurt, Living Sauerkraut, Kombucha
- SOURDOUGH Bread Loaves
Email: valleyvisionranch@gmail.com
Facebook: Valley Vision Ranch
Phone Number: 573-842-8676
of Our Apphia Line
Apphia
Apphia Men
We are a team…Ranching Cowboy Husband & City girl turned Rancher Wife. What a DUO! Together we make things exciting!! AND we make exciting things!! What started out as Apphia Jean needed to branch off for the men. With a combined 18+ years research into natural and God-designed life, here we present a Men’s Line for the hardworking man. The cracked-hands need healing. The rough skin needs a refreshing balance. The beards need a Masculine, Sexy softness for their ladies. We use our goat’s milk, only natural ingredients, and 100% essential oils and it’s all made in our home kitchen. This is our continued journey.
Apphia Baby
Everything seems to change when we first become a parent! But one thing remains the same: From the moment we first lay eyes on our new baby till the time they are grown and gone, we want the BEST for our children!! And that means staying far from chemicals, parabens and things that are known carcinogens or encourage skin damage on our kids!! Being a mom of three growing children, it’s not only a goal, it’s my calling to take care of what has been entrusted to me. Now I share with you some of my products that I will only use on my own children, some of whom have extremely sensitive skin. No matter how young, these products are safe for our newest little babies and all the way up! We use only natural ingredients, 100% essential oils and it’s all made in my home kitchen. This is my continued journey as Mom.
Apphia Jean
Apphia Jean started as a tiny seed. A thought. A dream. Now, Apphia is one part of Valley Vision Ranch. Apphia Jean is the WOMEN'S LINE of Goat Milk Soaps and Natural Products. In a world saturated with products full of everything unnatural, we lather chemicals, alcohol, mineral oil and parabens on our skin--things meant to preserve and pamper but we believe we are suffering the consequences. We invite you to join us on our journey of excitement and discovery of what was originally Created to preserve our health and promote our healing! We use only natural ingredients, 100% Essential Oils and its all made in our home kitchen. This is my continued journey. This is Apphia Jean.
Testimonials
Contact
- 306 Main Street, Van Buren, MO, USA
- +1-573-842-8676
- valleyvisionranch@gmail.com
- Come visit our store: The Ranch House & Coffee Shop Monday - Saturday 7am - 4pm to get a taste of our Grass Fed Beef, and some of the "Real Food" we offer from the Ranch. We look forward to seeing you!
