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Your Gifts Will Keep Us Open

The letter below was sent on April 7, 2020 on behalf of the DHR Board of Directors. In response, a DHR friend, Joel Trammel, has pledged to match all donations, up to $75,000. Every donation will be doubled thanks to Joel! Dear Friends,  While these times continue to create great uncertainties, they also have created…

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Enterprises Continue at DHR

As part of our income model, we sell the products we raise at DHR. This Enterprise program includes fresh chicken eggs and frozen cuts of naturally-raised Wagyu-Angus beef. We also have 11 commercial sized greenhouses that are filled with spring hanging baskets and various flowering plants right now.  Because we are a food manufacturer and…

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We are in this TOGETHER!

Dear Friends, I hope all is well with you and your families. At Down Home Ranch, we are taking it one day at a time. Our organization has always been unique in that we operate under a few different residential programs, each having their own distinctive regulations. On a normal day, it is challenging to…

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Is Overpopulation Killing Us?

Here’s a short piece that was in my email basket this morning  http://www.crisismagazine.com/2016/note-to-malthus-life-is-good I read frequently about the dramatic decline in birth rates in Japan, Russia, across Europe and many other parts of the world. Even in places in the Middle East like Iran and the United Arab Emirates. This doesn’t mean population growth worldwide…

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