BMR Receives Award

   2/20/07 We were recently honored by the nice the folks at Edible Phoenix Magazine receiving their 2007 "Local Hero Award" as  "Food Artisan Extraordinaire"

The award announcement was published on their web site and in the Spring 2007 edition of the magazine. Our friend and good customer Chrysa Kaufman from Rancho Pinot in Scottsdale was named their "Chef Extraordinaire" and Bob McClendon of McClendon Select their "Farmer Extraordinaire" for the year.

GOAT LOVE AT BLACK MESA RANCH

It's the goats. I can't get them out of my mind. I'm a city kid so I'm naturally somewhat apprehensive when faced with live farm animals. Like cows-they're so big-how can you be sure they're all that docile? And horses, they bite and kick if you're not very careful. So these goats at Black Mesa Ranch up in the White Mountains-as soon as they see you, they come running, trotting, or in the case of the little two-day old ones, tottering toward you with a look of steady determination in their goggly eyes and you've heard, well, that goats eat anything, and you can't help but wonder…am I lunch? Click here for the rest of the article

Best Homegrown Goat Cheese

"Though Snowflake, the northern Arizona town nestled in the White Mountains, is outside our coverage area, we make an exception for this fabulous cheese that is available for purchase at boutique food stores around the Valley ... Click here for the rest of the article

Artisans at Work

Goat cheese-making is definitely a family affair at Black Mesa Ranch, where owner and professionally trained chef David Heininger makes the cheese and his wife Kathryn manages the "girls", a herd of Nubian goats that supply rich, creamy milk and plenty of personality.  Click here for the rest of the article