Welcome to Triple M Bar
Triple M Bar Ranch is a family-owned and run ranch in Southeastern Colorado. We take pride in raising naturally grown lamb and Great Pyrenees guard dogs that are born and raised with our sheep. My husband, David and I are the main ranch hands.
Our ranch headquarters sits on Buckeye Hill in Crowley County on the bluffs overlooking the Arkansas River Valley. We also have grazing land in the valley along the river.
We are members of Colorado Proud, Colorado Woolgrowers Association, American Sheep Industry, Society for Range Management, Soil and Water Conservation Society, and American Society of Agromony. We are also part of the Colorado Birding Trail and are volunteers for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow (CoCoRaHS) Network. Mary is also a Colorado Ag Ambassador, helping to promote Colorado Agriculture in Southeast Colorado. Check out our links page to visit the websites of these various organizations.
Governor Hickenlooper
Grills Triple M Bar Lamb Chops
DENVER — Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 — Gov. John Hickenlooper grilled lamb chops today in advance of mailing a special package to Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley to settle a friendly bet over last weekend’s football game. In that package are 12 lamb chops from the Triple M Bar Ranch in Manzanola.
“This was one of the toughest defeats I’ve ever watched, but what a game! And you do learn more from defeat than you do victory,” Hickenlooper said. “Even if you have the best quarterback and the best coach in football, and we do, nobody can be perfect every time out. Our disappointment aside, we are proud of the Denver Broncos and happy to settle our bet with Gov. O’Malley with some of the best lamb chops on earth.”
The governor was joined today by Triple M Bar Ranch ranch owners David and Mary Miller. Their ranch headquarters sits on Buckeye Hill in Crowley County, overlooking the Arkansas River Valley.
Triple M Bar Ranch lamb meat is all natural, which means no growth hormones or antibiotics are used. The meat also has a unique, mild flavor due to the feed used to grow lambs. The lambs begin on grass pastures then go to melon and vegetable pastures, including tomatoes, chilies, peppers, onions, okra and eggplant. The lambs graze on crop stubble during winter months and are processed before they turn 1 year old at a USDA-inspected facility in southern Colorado.
The Millers are members of Colorado Proud, which was created by the Colorado Department of Agriculture in 1999. The program promotes Colorado food and agricultural products, makes it easier for consumers to identify and purchase Colorado products by labeling them with the Colorado Proud logo, raises consumer awareness of the benefits of buying locally grown, raised and manufactured products.
The Colorado Proud Program now has more than 1,800 members that include growers, processors, restaurants, retailers and associations statewide.
Hickenlooper sent the lamb chops to O’Malley because the Denver Broncos lost to the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday. Had the Broncos won the game, O’Malley would have sent 12 Chesapeake Bay crab cakes to Colorado.
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Original Article - http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/GovHickenlooper/CBON/1251638681418