MONTANA BORN.
The Darlington Ranch is a fifth-generation ranch located southeast of Big Sandy, MT. Our family has been stewarding the land since our early homestead days in 1916. We believe it all starts with the dirt we live on. Healthy soils create healthy plants. Healthy plants create healthy animals. We strive to promote the cowboy way and are committed to sustainable practices that will see our family continue to operate on this land for another 100 years. In the photo to your right you will see Harley and Alma Darlington (Colter's great-grandparents) sitting in front of the sod house they built together.
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That's not where our story begins though, you see, Harley came to Montana with his widowed mother. She was traveling here to meet up with her brother who had written to her telling her he had started farming in the wild west we call home today. Once she and her son arrived they found that her brother had packed up and left!
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Despite the hardships she would face, she stayed and homesteaded this rugged land with nothing but her little boy beside her. So began the legacy of the Darlington Ranch.
MONTANA RAISED.
We are Colter and Lauren Darlington, the 5th generation to work on the ranch. We started our pasture-to-plate beef business in 2023 to connect families to their food source. Our cattle roam the grasslands of Montana along the scenic Missouri River and the foothills of the Bears Paw Mountains. The landscape is largely unchanged since Lewis & Clark came through 220 years ago. Our cattle spend the entirety of their lives in pasture roaming wide open spaces and we have a firm belief that the best beef comes from the great state of Montana! ​
MONTANA SOLD.
Our beef is processed in a Montana facility by Montanans, the way it should be done. When buying meat from a grocery store, an individual does not truly know where the meat is coming from. Any meat that passes USDA inspection receives a "product of USA" label, regardless of if it comes from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the United States or anywhere in between. Often the ground beef you find in stores is a mix of tens to hundreds of different animals from multiple origins ground together and placed in a single package. Our ground beef will always be sourced from one animal and is processed at a small USDA inspected facility in the heart of Montana. We stick to our roots to ensure all steps of the beef chain remain local, in order to deliver a 100% pure Montana product.