Meet the Renegades!

We are a family of seven running a working ranch and raising our children alongside the animals and land we care for every day.

This isn’t just a business to us.

It’s our home, our work, and the life we’re building together.

We are here to answer your questions about club membership, A2A2 milk, and our community drop points.

We are a family of seven, “large” by today’s standards but small by the ideas of yesteryear. Each of us brings different talents and ideas to the ranch, and we all play a part in making it work.

Jeff works off the ranch as a hydropower mechanical worker-in-charge. He spends his days fixing things at work and then comes home to build, repair, and improve things here. He’s especially good at finding ways to make our systems run better.

Gretchen usually sets the pace and steers the work. She runs the farm and homeschools the kids while encouraging them to think for themselves and pursue their own ideas.

Our kids help with all kinds of ranch work, from raising doodle puppies and gathering eggs to helping care for animals and supporting daily chores around the farm.

What We Believe

Obviously, we believe raw milk is important—or we wouldn't be here. We also believe in real, whole foods and in knowing where our food comes from.

We believe in hard work, good stewardship, and using what we've been given well. God has blessed us with land, animals, abilities, and opportunities, and we believe those gifts aren't meant to benefit only us. They're meant to be used in service to others. That's why we see what we do at Renegade Ridge Creamery as more than a business. It's a ministry to the communities around us.

We believe in nature—not as a god, but as the handiwork of God Almighty.

There is something wonderfully reassuring about the order He built into creation. Cows have calves and give milk. Grass grows. Trees put on leaves in the spring and shed them again in the fall. Seasons come and seasons go.

Our job isn't to outsmart all of that. It's to be good stewards of it—to care well for the animals and land entrusted to us and work within the design God created.

Why “Renegade”?

The name Renegade Ridge Creamery means something to us. In a sense, we are renegades.

We believe we're called to be willing to do things differently. To question what has become “normal.” To work hard, stand for what we believe, and not be afraid to look a little different while doing it.

We're not particularly interested in fitting in just for the sake of fitting in.

We'd rather stand out for something worth standing for.

Come Be a Renegade

If knowing your farmer, knowing where your food comes from, supporting local agriculture, and bringing real food home to your family sound a little like your kind of renegade, too—

Come join us.

From Our Herd to Your Home.