Zach Thode and his family’s ranch are taking a step into the retail world with their recent purchase of the Forks, a restaurant and mercantile that has been a staple in Livermore, Colo., since 1875. He and his wife, Sherryl, along with their four children, live and work on Lehi Ranch.
Thode, a first-generation rancher and Livermore native, runs about 400 cows and 150 yearlings each year.
“To fit into the bigger of what we’re working on at our own ranching operation, to a more fully integrated ranch that goes from a cow-calf, all the way to selling meat to the consumer, the Forks just fit into our program perfectly,” Thode said. “That just meant we had to find the money to actually do it.”…