Guest Christy Hansel Lohof grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York, attendant with all the feed and milking duties. Her parents were sure to leave time for other activities such as competitive sports, which Christy continued in college. With a biology major and geology minor, she left college without a clear picture of what was to come next, assuming that she would go to veterinary school. After a year of living at home and working for a veterinarian, she realized she wasn’t committed to that work. So she headed west, where she had visited during a break trip with the geology department in college.

She initially worked at a dude ranch, leading groups of leisure travelers on the ranch, before moving into the world of wilderness trip leading. Though given the opportunity to take over that business, she wasn’t sure how many more years she could stand sleeping on the ground. Instead, she moved with her cowboy boyfriend, marrying into a fourth-generation ranch family in southeastern Montana. She raised her growing family and raised her cattle and, in going back to school for a masters in kinesiology, that the type of ranching their family did was actual more healthful than the typical commercial meat business so developed a direct-to-consumer business for the ranch. Successes were balanced, however, by hardship, all put in perspective by the agricultural lifestyle.

In this episode, find out from Christy how stewarding and being grounded by the land can help you see the continuum of life…on ROADS TAKEN...with Leslie Jennings Rowley.

About This Episode's Guest

Christy Hansel Lohof is now part of the fifth-generation family that runs LOHOF All Natural Grass-Finished Beef with cows that are bred, born, and slow grown on her family's Montana range-land for over 2 years. If you're near Billings, Montana, Sheridan, Wyoming or even Denver, Colorado and you want a cow share, or if you have three months to spend on a ranch internship, you are in luck. Find out more at LohofGrassFinishedBeef.com.

Executive Producer/Host: Leslie Jennings Rowley

Music: Brian Burrows

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Email the show at RoadsTakenShow@gmail.com

Find more episodes at https://roadstakenshow.com

Executive Producer/Host: Leslie Jennings Rowley

Music: Brian Burrows

Email the show at RoadsTakenShow@gmail.com

Brand Manager: Christy Hansel Lohof on being grounded on land and seeing the continuum of life

Roads Taken