Force of Nature

Force of Nature is transparent about which products are 100% grass-fed and grass-finished and which involve other sourcing arrangements, but only if you read the FAQ carefully — the front-of-package marketing tends to flatten the differences. Per their own current sourcing disclosures: beef and bison are "US and internationally sourced," elk and venison are New Zealand sourced, wild boar and chicken are US sourced. Bison and beef are 100% grass-fed and grass-finished. Elk and venison are grass-fed and pasture-raised with up to 5% supplemental non-GMO feed. The brand operates a proprietary "Land Steward Index" — a mutual pledge their supplier ranches sign — in place of any third-party certification. Ancestral Blends include organ meats from the same animals (not powdered organ from elsewhere) with organ percentages published per SKU. Packaging is recyclable; shipping is on dry ice, not wet ice.

Force of Nature is the consumer brand of a team built from EPIC Provisions, which Collins and Forrest co-founded and sold to General Mills in 2016 (sale price not publicly disclosed). Sansom was EPIC's CFO. In 2017 Collins and Forrest purchased what became Roam Ranch — roughly 900 acres of overgrazed land along the Pedernales River outside Fredericksburg, Texas — as a regenerative-agriculture project. Force of Nature launched as a separate but affiliated consumer brand in the late 2010s (different secondary sources cite either 2018 or 2019; the company doesn't list a specific founding year on its current team page), bringing regeneratively-raised meat — some from Roam Ranch, some from a network of other ranches — to a direct-to-consumer market. Robby Sansom is CEO; Collins and Forrest are co-founders. The two operations share founders and philosophy but are distinct entities, not parent and subsidiary.

Bison and beef are 100% grass-fed and grass-finished. Elk and venison are grass-fed and pasture-raised with up to 5% supplemental non-GMO feed permitted (per the company's FAQ). Chicken uses 100% certified organic feed supplemented by pasture forages. Organ percentages in the Ancestral Blends are published per SKU (typically 10–25% by weight, mostly heart and liver). No nitrates, no fillers, no carrageenan in the ground products.

Pricing is not for the squeamish — ground bison runs roughly twice what you'd pay for grocery-store grass-fed beef, and ground beef sits around $14 per pound. Shipping is reliable but you cannot beat the per-pound cost down by ordering small; the math only works if you commit to a freezer load. The marketing front-loads the regenerative Roam Ranch story while the actual sourcing for many SKUs is broader — elk and venison are entirely New Zealand sourced, bison and beef include international supply, and the chicken is from a partner farm rather than their own operation. None of that is necessarily disqualifying but the gap between "Texas regenerative ranch" framing and "we source from a global network" reality is real, and the company's self-defined Land Steward Index is not a third-party certification regardless of how it reads on the page. The brand also leans hard into "ancestral" marketing in ways that can read as overheated if you came for the meat and not the philosophy.