News — Rancho Largo

2025 was the most challenging year Birds & Beans Coffee has faced since our launch in 2008. It tested us — as a family business, as conservationists, and as people who believe deeply that coffee can be a force for good. And we made it through for one simple reason: community.

Grady Grissom and his family operate Rancho Largo. On 14,000 acres of grassland and canyon in southeastern Colorado, they make a living and prove that it is possible to raise and market beef in a way that is additive to the environment, humane to cattle, and debunks the theory that eating beef has to contribute to climate chaos.