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Alan didn’t discover he was a born Montanan until he came to Montana in his mid-twenties.
He grew up in Central Minnesota. He started his first custom haying business when he was 9 years old, he ran that business for fifteen years. His worklife has been diverse; hired help on dairies and pig farms, ranch manager, mechanic at a dealership, and grain/hay truck driver. He moved to Montana for a ranch manager position.
He found himself on a remote ranch with an absent landowner 40+ miles from Lewistown which was great for the quiet, shy, lose-yourself-in-your-work kind of guy that he is. However, one day a neighbor dragged him into Lewistown to get parts, “You need to get off the ranch sometime! And I need help loading and unloading these parts.”
Teresa was born and raised outside of Townsend, MT. She grew up on a small acreage with more horses and chickens than cows.
Her parents were in tourism, and Teresa spent her summers wrangling guests on cattle drives. After graduating from MSU, she applied for the Peace Corps and the recruiter called her up with more questions. He didn’t have questions about her knowledge of public health or community development with her degree in Health and Human Development. Nor did he have questions about her business knowledge with her experience in hospitality and banking. “So, you’re from Montana. What do you know about agriculture?”
Teresa served as a sustainable agriculture extension agent in Senegal West Africa. There, she learned about growing cowpeas, peanuts, and millet. She learned about market gardening with eggplants, tomatoes, habanero peppers, and sweet potatoes. She learned about hospitality and the value of community. And she realized that farmers and ranchers everywhere are largely the same. Teresa came “home” from the Peace Corps to Central Montana and began working in geriatric social work. One day, she ran in to her high school science teacher, who had just dragged his friend in to Lewistown for parts.
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Teresa’s great grandfather began managing “Buffalo Ranch Company” in the early nineteen teens.
In 1921, the company dissolved and BD Hollenback purchased the west end of the property. Teresa’s grandmother was 3 years old at the time.
BD started this ranch with a lot of debt and 100 chickens. But he was a progressive thinker and always moving forward. BD was partner in a steam engine business; plowing and harvesting across Central Montana.
There have been highs and lows over the 100+ years. Times of prosperity and times of despair. This land has seen bands of sheep, herds of Shorthorn cattle, herds of Hereford cattle, and herds of Black Angus cross cattle.
There has been a substantial garden, chickens, pigs, and quality work horses at times as well. This land successfully transitioned to the next generation three times, twice after being owned by a bachelor uncle.
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