The Full Circle

From ranch to fire to table to soil.

In nine steps the loop closes.

Step One

The ranchers

Regenerative ranches and farms grow the food — grazing and growing in ways that rebuild soil rather than deplete it.

Step Two

Wood & fire

Meats are wood-smoked low and slow by our local smokehouse partner, or cooked live on site over open flame — the Asado over wood, using oak from Net Zero Ranch. We keep food warm with induction warmers, and cook with propane only at venues that do not allow a live wood fire.

Step Three

The crew

Our crew shapes the harvest into the meal.

Step Four

Your guests

The table gathers. Dinner is served on our reusable tableware rental or compostable BioWare.

Step Five

Plates & scraps

When you add composting, a compost bin stands at your event, and recycling bins go up for the venue.

Step Six

The composting facility

It all travels to Reunity Resources, a soil and fertilizer company in Santa Fe.

Step Seven

Living soil

What was waste becomes living soil — dark, rich, and ready to grow.

Step Eight

The community

Santa Fe gardeners buy that soil.

Step Nine

Gardens bloom

Gardens bloom, and the harvest begins again. Soil to soil.

Through photosynthesis, plants pull carbon dioxide down into their roots and the soil, where healthy ground can hold it for years.

1–3 tons

of carbon dioxide can be drawn from the atmosphere and stored in each acre of regeneratively farmed soil every year.

Est. · Rodale Institute · Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Net ZeroOur goal and our name, not a measured result.
SourceHyper-local first: most of what we cook comes from organic and regenerative ranches and farms across Northern New Mexico; our turkey from California, and our salmon is flown in. Meet our sourcing partners
HonestyNo greenwashing. We hold ourselves to Europe’s new anti-greenwashing standard (EU Directive 2024/825): no vague “eco-friendly” claims without proof, and no “carbon neutral” claims bought with offsets.

Our Impact

Inverting the math.

The average American wedding generates 400–600 pounds of garbage¹ and 63 tons of carbon dioxide¹.

We estimate that 90% of our ingredients come from ranches and farms in New Mexico and the surrounding region, which cuts food miles². When composting is added, our reusable tableware rental plus composting diverts nearly all of a wedding’s waste from the landfill, cutting the footprint from 400–600 pounds to as little as five pounds³.

“When I first started the company, I weighed the landfill waste from every event. An entire wedding — under five pounds. It was a lightbulb moment, how powerful waste-free planning really is.”— Chef Kualani Kennedy

Chef Kualani Kennedy holding up a single small bag — the entire landfill waste from one Net Zero Ranch wedding, as little as five pounds.

Kate Harrison, The Green Bride Guide (2008); cited in Stanford Magazine, “Greening the Wedding”.
Net Zero Ranch internal estimate. Net Zero Ranch does not yet publish a third-party-audited lifecycle assessment.
Net Zero Ranch internal measurement based on operational practice.

The full circle, drawn soil to soil.