About
The 3 Martini Ranch
Our Ranch
When we first began discussing our plans for after retirement, we were in agreement that we wanted to be on some acreage away from the city. Our search for property began about four years before we retired. God led us to the place we now call the Three Martini Ranch.
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When we first bought the property, our youngest was instrumental in getting things started. He has since gone on to his own life goals, but we decided we should recognize his investment in our dream by including him in our name for the ranch.
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Since we believe that God designed his creation to work in symbiosis, we are trying to manage that with which he blessed us in a manner that works within that design. Cattle, goats, and pigs can live off the grass and forage and in turn give back to the soil and control plant growth. We have added chickens which receive nourishment from the larvae of insects that thrive in the material left by the cattle and in turn keep the cattle less pestered, by well, "pests." We want to limit pharmacological inputs as much as possible, in part to protect our bees but also because we believe it is better for the animals and humans alike.
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Our Philosophy
We believe that God has placed us as stewards of those things with which he has blessed us. We believed that, even before we decided to enter the world’s oldest profession…. farming. I know that is not often the profession referenced in that adage so I will explain.
In Genesis 2 verse 5, prior to the creation of man, God indicates that he took care of the creation “because there was no man to work the ground.” Verse 15, after the creation of man, “God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.” It was not until after the fall of Adam and Eve that the ground became cursed and the work became a burden as well as a command. In Genesis 4, Cain and Abel were described as “a worker of the ground” and a “keeper of sheep,” respectively.
So farming is actually “the oldest profession.”