Low-waste wedding & event catering, drawn from New Mexico’s ranchers and farmers.

Chef Kualani Kennedy, our owner, grew up on a cattle and horse ranch in Missouri. Her father was the first certified organic commercial farmer in Hawaii. She went on to spend 43 years in kitchens: a Culinary Institute degree, New York’s Michelin-starred lines, and decades as a private chef.

In 2022 the Hermits Peak fire — the largest in New Mexico’s history — took her kitchen. Kennedy cooked through the evacuation, pulling off 15 weddings — and in the ashes, Net Zero Ranch was born.

“The only way to deliver a meal worth remembering is to know exactly where the food comes from.”— Chef Kualani Kennedy

The name is a real place — her home, off the grid, run on sun and well water.

Kennedy is the creative force behind Net Zero Ranch. The kitchen in Santa Fe is headed up by her chefs and baker.