Talking Tannins: the Chemistry of Wine and Leather
Red wine and leather have more in common than you’d think. Both are made using tannins, a naturally-occurring molecule commonly found in plants that binds to proteins and results in...
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From Locals, for Locals
For six years, Nick Chambers, aka Chef Funghi, has managed Valley Roots Food Hub, a distributor of locally grown produce located in Mosca, Colorado. Besides supplying truly local produce to...
Pam Houston on Writing and the Natural World
Next fall Zapata Ranch will be hosting a writing workshop with award-winning American author Pam Houston.
How to Size Yourself for A Sunbody
Our Sunbodies are Guatemalan hats, which have a foam-padded cotton twill sweatband that tends to shrink about 1% with heat and moisture. This is about 1/2 of a hat size...
Birding at the Chico with David Tønnessen
David Tønnessen has already made quite a name for himself in the Colorado birding community. He recorded the first sighting of a tropical king bird in the state of Colorado...
Wildness Incarnate
“The Crane is wildness incarnate. High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks… a new day has begun on the crane marsh. A sense of...
What are chaps?
What do ranchers have in common with frontier trappers, Native Americans, Texas Rangers and Christian missionaries? We all played a role in shaping the history of the American West and...
A Timeless Trade
Ranching is a trade that is deeply rooted in history and tradition as well as being on the forefront of progress and innovation. It is a trade that can be...
From Open Range to Zapatas Table
Feeding hungry guests after a long day of ranch work is no small task, but Chase Kelley is no stranger […]
Smoking Ques and How Tos
Welcome to your new favorite introduction piece on the oh-so delicious thing that we call barbecue! I’m going to walk you through some dos and don’ts when it comes to...
How the Dunes Were Formed
Thousands of years ago, a large plate in the Earth’s surface shifted. This rift created the San Luis Valley in Colorado, a valley roughly the size of Connecticut. As the...
Bugs, Biodiversity, and Big Ranches
Over the last few years, Chico Basin Ranch has partnered with the Mile High Bug Club (Pikes Peak Region chapter) to make a casual assessment of the diversity of insects,...
Making the Right Thing Easy
“It’s about making the wrong thing difficult, and the right thing easy.” Most people who’ve spent time around horses will recognize this saying, but after a lifetime of riding horses,...
Self Selection
I was first introduced to the term “self-selection” in a barefoot trimming clinic in Australia about a year ago. The couple that were hosting the clinic, a trimmer and a...
Buttermilk Fried Chicken
The addition of rice flour to the dredge in this recipe creates a nice crisp double dredged breading.
Our Summer Reading List
From epic novels about the “old West” to meditations on the natural world and humanity’s place in it, from horsemanship instructionals to our favorite cookbooks, a (non-comprehensive) list of titles...
Rhubarb Compote Ice Cream
We have a wild rhubarb plant growing behind an old building at Zapata, so last week I harvested some of the rhubarb and made a simple compote that goes great...
Duke Jr.
Someone once called my father a rugged individualist, which, as I look back, comes pretty close.
Harper’s Berry Muffins
These muffins work well with any type of juicy berries. The muffins look very impressive if you use a jumbo […]
