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Matt Romero — a Northern New Mexico grower behind our ingredients.
Matt Romero · Romero Farms · Northern New Mexico
The People Behind the Food

The ranchers and
farmers.

The regenerative ranches, organic farms, and local food networks Net Zero Ranch sources from across New Mexico and the region.

A grower harvesting produce in a Northern New Mexico field, mountains beyond
A farmer tending garden beds at a Northern New Mexico farm
Cattle grazing the golden high-desert grasslands of New Mexico
Stewards of the Land

They are the stewards of the land. Net Zero Ranch is just the kitchen.

— Chef Kualani Kennedy
Where We Source

The named hands behind our ingredients.

01 · Lamb

Shepherd’s Lamb

New Mexico’s only Certified Organic lamb producer, pasture-fed on the Carson National Forest summer range. Never feedlot-finished.

“An ideal for lamb — herbal, earthy yet ethereal.”The New York Times · 2011

Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico · organiclamb.com

02 · Lamb

Night Sky Lamb

A family-owned ranch in Eastern New Mexico raising all-natural, grass-fed Dorper lamb on native pastures with holistic range management. No growth hormones, no GMOs, no antibiotics.

Eastern New Mexico · nightskylamb.com

03 · Beef

Sol Ranch

Owned by Emily Cornell, a second-generation cattlewoman. Grass-fed and grass-finished dry-aged beef from cattle pastured where the plains meet the mountains, with adaptive ranching devoted to soil health, water quality, and biodiversity.

Northeastern New Mexico · solranchnm.com

04 · Beef

Sile Pastures

Black Angus and Santa Gertrudis, 100% grass-fed and grass-finished. Cattle summer on a 300-acre Pecos Mountains ranch fed by 13 natural springs, then winter on Sile’s own pastures and alfalfa.

Sile, New Mexico · silepastures.com

05 · Beef & Pork

Red Barn Ranch

Family-owned and family-run. All-natural, grass-finished beef and pork from generations working the same high-plains land.

Las Vegas, New Mexico

07 · Pork

Polk’s Folly Farm

Regenerative pork: pigs left free to root, run, wallow, and play — with no growth hormones and no tail docking.

Cedar Crest, New Mexico · polksfolly.com

08 · Bison

Beck & Bulow

A Santa Fe butcher and purveyor that began at the Santa Fe Farmers Market in 2018, buying from producers who raise animals pasture-raised, with no antibiotics and no added hormones. Our bison comes from them.

Santa Fe, New Mexico · beckandbulow.com

09 · Organic Farm

Owl Peak Farm

A registered 501(c)(3) practicing regenerative organic farming since 2010 in Northern New Mexico’s high desert. Grows and mills its own heirloom corn and grains, alongside beans, garlic, and fruit.

La Madera, New Mexico · owlpeakfarm.com

10 · Chile & Produce

Romero Farms

Matt Romero’s family farm — New Mexico produce and chile, grown for flavor and sold at the Santa Fe Farmers Market. The grower at the top of this page.

Northern New Mexico · santafefarmersmarket.com

12 · High-Altitude Farm

Cerro Vista Farm

An 18-acre farm in Taos County, ringed by 2,200 acres of pasture and alfalfa at 7,560 feet.

Taos County, New Mexico · cerrovistafarm.com

13 · Tamale Kitchen

Teresa’s Tamales

Over 30 years of tamales, made the old way. Teresa Olivas learned at age six in her mother’s Mora County kitchen, went professional in the 1990s, and built Teresa’s Tamales in Cleveland, New Mexico. Now carried on by a Mora couple she trained. Traditional New Mexico red and green chile fillings. Our tamale partner for events.

Mora, New Mexico · teresastamalesnm.wixsite.com

15 · Composting

Reunity Resources

Santa Fe’s community composting and soil partner. When you add composting, your event’s food scraps return to Reunity, where they become living soil for local farms.

Santa Fe, New Mexico · reunityresources.com

The Lineage

Many generations. One tradition, alive today.

The horseback-ranching tradition — cattlemen and cattlewomen — did not end over a century ago. It lives on in the families we source from.

A gaucho on horseback photographed in Tapalqué, Argentina, 1881 — the original asado horseman.
01 The Gaucho Argentina · 1881
A charro photographed in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1890 — the Mexican horseman tradition.
02 The Charro Mexico · 1890
Emily Cornell on horseback at Sol Ranch — New Mexico ranch-riding tradition, today.
03 The Vaquera Emily Cornell Sol Ranch New Mexico · 2026
Menus & Pricing

Their harvest, your table.

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