By Hal Walter
If you’re in the livestock business in the Wet Mountain Valley, what that really means is that you’re in the grass business. Few people know that better than Elin Parker Ganschow, owner of Music Meadows Ranch and Sangres Best Beef.
Elin’s been in the grassfed beef business for nearly two decades, continuing a tradition started by her grandfather, William Parker, and passed on to her father, Bill, who put together the original family ranch near Arriba in Eastern Colorado, building up to 14,000 acres out of the Soil Bank Program of the 1940s. Along the way her father also acquired ranch land in California, Hawaii and the family ranch at the south end of the Wet Mountain Valley.