We are the Valle Family! Colton, Annie, Mesa (9), Wilder (7), Dally (3), & Tuff (11 months!). We live on my husband’s family ranch on the north slope of the Crazy Mountains near Martinsdale in Central Montana. I’ve always been passionate about healthy local foods and non-toxic products for my family. Tallow products perfectly marry my love of quality food and clean living!

We hand render our own tallow sourced locally from humanely raised and harvested animals. While grass-fed is all the rage these days, we don’t personally believe that it’s the best way to raise cattle. Factory farms are certainly problematic, but feeding your cattle supplemental grain in the finishing process is perfectly humane and healthy!

When I began rendering my own tallow, I believed that wet-rendering tallow (adding salt and water during the rendering process) created a more pure product best suited to cosmetics. However, with much study I found that wet-rendering was only necessary if dirty, used tallow or fat harvested from sub-cutaneous areas was being rendered. I use only PURE kidney fat, aka “leaf fat” or “beef suet”, the clean nutritious fat from around the kidney’s of healthy cattle. Now, I only use the DRY rendering method which preserves more of the nutrients and still results in a beautiful, white, nearly odorless tallow product. I hope you will enjoy it as much as we do!