Keeping it local

Spyglass Ranch and Jenson Livestock LLC are two of the local ranching operations that have stepped up to the plate to help provide kids with quality food. The Farm to School program came to Moorcroft last week courtesy of the Crook County Cattlewomen.

The group started the project over a year ago, contacting schools and ranchers to set up donations of beef cattle to be shipped to a processor in Sturgis, SD, where the meat is USDA certified before the school pays for the butchering and Crook County students receive quality homegrown meat with their meals.

“Last year,” Criss Neiman of th...