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Abbey Bruski sells products in the Ace Steadman parking lot in Miles City. She travels to multiple towns in southeastern Montana as well as surrounding states.
Abbey and Ryan Bruski frequently cook with their produce and meat at home, including these kabobs.
Abbey Bruski was selling products to locals and friends for about 10 years. Then the pandemic hit and she changed her business for the better.
In the summer of 2020 when meat was being rationed in grocery stores or being sold for extremely high prices, Bruski started Beaver Creek Homegrown, LLC.
"I was disappointed we couldn't buy meat or it was outrageously priced," she said.
With the help of her husband, Ryan, and their daughters Bekka and Harper, they sell a variety of products. They raise GMO free, grass-finished beef and pastured hogs that are then butchered at the U.S. Department of Agriculture inspected plants in Forsyth and Miles City. She then stores the processed animals at her home.
Of those processed animals come a wide variety of cuts of meat. For beef cuts, hamburger, roasts, a variety of steak cuts, ox tail, brats, stew meat, tongue, jerky, and beef sticks are available. She offers sausage links, pork chops, spicy and original breakfast sausage, hickory or original bacon, pork roast and ham hocks.
In 2020 they built a greenhouse on their property in Ekalaka where they grow farm fresh, pesticide free produce. Some of the garden produce includes tomatoes, cucumbers, beets, lettuce, peas, carrots, celery and an assortment of herbs.
This spring Abbey and Ryan took some time and planted apple, pears, apricots, and plum trees in their orchard. They also planted strawberry, raspberry, elderberry and horseradish plants this spring.
Bruski ships product throughout the U.S. She does vehicle delivery to North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. She frequently travels to Hysham, Forsyth, Miles City and Baker.
All products are raised on a family ranch that practices regenerative agriculture. The entire property has been converted from farmland back to pastureland. Livestock no longer receive any lick tubs, pour on or mineral. They now receive salt and vinegar.
The hogs are grazed on pasture with one wire electric fence and are rotated. Ryan will spread cover crop seed after they are moved. The Bruskis also run goats that they use to cell graze on weeds like Spotted Knapweed or Leafy Spurge.
Not only do their chickens produce farm fresh eggs, they also use them to manage the grasshoppers. They are also moved around to where cows have grazed.
"We do this to better the future of our children and land," Bruski said.
More information can be found at https://www.beavercreekhomegrown.com/ or on their Facebook @beavercreekhomegrownllc. Bruski can also be reached at abbeyjean2012@hotmail. com.
(Contact Hanna Kambich at mcreporter@midrivers. com or 406-234-0450.)
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