Neighbors

Steve Robinson’s passion and dream was always to one day be living back at his family homestead. The family homestead has been in his family since 1864 when his great-great Uncle Harve Bruce homesteaded the land. After years of college and 20 years of teaching elementary education Steve took a huge leap of faith and headed back to the mountains of Jerusalem, Ark. For the past 4 years Steve has been a full-time farmer at his ranch-Oak Springs Mountain Ranch. The ranch located on Oak Mountain received its name from the mountain it calls home and the springs that one can find upon it. The ranch’s 411 acres is home to not only Steve and his trusty K-9 partner in crime Mandy but goats, horses, cows, dogs, chickens and lots of gardens. Steve started his ranch of diversity with the goal of one day becoming self-sufficient.

Located on the Missouri-Arkansas state line is a sight seldom seen in Northern Arkansas today. JW Guffey and his son, Bryan, and son-in-law, Lee Lester, run a cattle feed lot. Most cattle operations in Arkansas now are either cow/calf operations or breeder stock, but almost everyone runs their cattle on open pasture, supplementing as necessary.

Most of the time when people say ‘you’re seeing red,’ it’s a bad thing. But at Reinert Family Farm, seeing red (and black and gold) means you are looking at John and Denise Reinert’s fine herd of Gelbvieh and Red Poll cattle near Billings, Mo.