Jason Smith isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty — or greasy and a bit bloody — as farmer, rancher, teacher and even butcher at Rock Bottom Ranch. On a recent evening, Smith used two sharp knives, a ...

Jason Smith grabbed an inch-thick layer of fat along the back of half a pig in two strong hands and gave several tugs until it ripped away from the carcass. Smith, the director of Rock Bottom Ranch, ...

Rock Bottom Ranch in the Emma area has hundreds of egg-laying hens scratching and pecking at the ground in a small pasture roped off by flexible electric fencing. Just a few feet away in an adjacent ...