Stories
A Dose of Nutritional Facts
What to eat and what is in our food can be difficult to know. False claims and the misuse of labeling doesn’t help. We always want to be transparent with our customers and recently had our Ground Buffalo retested to offer you solid nutritional data.
Too Much on Our Plates
Is it our 21st Century lives or is it human nature that makes us pile too much on our plates, especially over the holidays? Or maybe it is me?
Meet Jilian Jones
Many of you are aware that the founder of Wild Idea Buffalo Company is Dan O'Brien. But, over the past 21 years (Yes, it's really been 21 years!), more of the family has become integrated into the business and have vital roles that continue to move our greater mission of regenerating and conserving the American Great Plains Prairie forward.
Wildness Retained
For fifty years my days and dreams have been haunted by falcons, eagles, and hawks.
The Hidden Beauty of Fall
Fall is beginning to show its face out at the Cheyenne River Ranch. The landscape will soon slip into a transition of colors from greens, yellows and purples, to bronze and golds. The few trees that do exist on the prairie will start their descent to dormancy in an amazing display of the color spectrum.
I've Been Feeling Mortal
In the past two years, I have spent more than my fair share of time at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The clinic is a fine hospital with hundreds of fine, young doctors and thankfully I’m all right, it’s just that hospitals in general make me feel sadly mortal.
Rut on the Prairie
It’s the rut (breeding season that is), which stirs up a lot of action and noise on the prairie! You could say that it is the beginning cycle of the regeneration process.
The Case for Eating Buffalo Meat
The Great Plains are enormous – about 32 million acres – but they are not limitless. In fact, the vast majority of the land that was once a healthy, bio-diverse buffalo range is now taken up by industrial agriculture – crop production, feedlots, and cattle grazing.
Flyover Country
South Dakota in general, is known as “flyover country”. And, some people say, “That we live in the middle of nowhere”. We say, "Like nowhere on Earth", but seeing or hearing about nowhere is a pretty tough sell.
Where Our Buffalo Roam & How They Are Raised
Did you know that 90% of the bison raised for food in this country and in Canada are raised in the cattle feed-lot model?
Healthy Prairie Pasture
A healthy pasture on the Northern mixed-grass prairie is not just a homogeneous expanse of grass. In our country, a healthy pasture is not smooth, flat or small.
Dan O'Brien, Our Carbon Cowboy, Featured in Men's Journal
Our own Carbon Cowboy, Dan O’Brien was recently featured in Men’s Journal magazine.