Who We Are.
In 1854, great-great grandfather Adolph Gericke opened the first butcher shop in newly settled Petaluma, California. Born in Hannover, Germany in 1832, Adolph traveled to America in 1853 where he soon purchased the 300-acre ranch which was then part of the Blucher Rancho north of Tomales. Adolph married Ellen Fallon, an Irish immigrant, in 1858.
Now, over 150 years later, our family is once again selling ranch-raised meats just as Adolpf Gericke had done From the beginning, our family has raised sheep and cattle for meat, raised chickens for eggs, milked dairy and harvested apples, pears, berries and vegetables from our ranch, orchards and fields. For our generation—the fifth raised on the Maloney Ranch—our project started anew in 1981 with a small 4-H market and breeding flock of lambs that has since grown to provide the foundation of our new business as well as continuing on in exhibition with the youngest generation of the family’s 4-Hers.
