All net proceeds from the sale of our coffee will be used to purchase coffee and jerky to send to Alpha Company until further notice.

Recent History (the past)

We have been in transition for the last three years and there have been a lot of changes in our family and business. We have sold some of the ranches and consolidated down to the Home Ranch where my husband Roy's family started their ranching operation in 1910.

We have retained the old foundation herd of Hereford cattle and have been in the process of remodeling the old family ranch home. I have purchased a home just twenty miles from the ranch in Eureka , CA. Shipping at Iaqua Ranch

Our youngest son Bill and his wife Sandy are managing the ranch for me. Bill and Sandy have a son Roy age 10 and a daughter Billie, age 5. The family all work together doing the ranch work. Roy and Billie both have cattle of their own. Roy rides a big gelding named Koko and Billie has a pony named Buckshot. The children attend the little Kneeland Country school. Our other children are all involved in businesses of their own in Oregon, California and Nevada.

I really miss living on the ranch, but I am concentrating on building the Home Ranch Coffee business. I have changed the company name from Baaa Co. to Home Ranch Company . I will be donating all net proceeds after expenses from the sale of the Cowboy Blend Coffee to the Friends Of The Fair Scholarship Fund at Redwood Acres Fair Eureka, CA.

We have TV and Radio Advertising airing on our local stations. Our Ad was created by Marianne Morse of Morse Media, with photos from the Kathleen Jo Ryan's Ranching Traditions Book. Rancher Bill McBride from Bear River, Ferndale CA created our Cowboy Blend coffee song. Bill's musical talent gave our ad a wonderful country sound that has everyone asking him about it.

With Marianne's expertise, Bill's talent and Kathleen's photos we have an advertising campaign to be proud of. Cowboy Blend and Cowgirl Blend coffees are available at the following businesses: Pierson Garden Supply, Broadway, Eureka, CA; Corral West Western Wear at the Bayshore Mall, Eureka , CA; Myrtle Ave. Market, Eureka, CA; Three Corners Market, Eureka, CA; Blackberry Creek Gift Shop, Henderson Center, Eureka , CA; Lost Coast Coffee Company, Fortuna, CA; Valley Grocery Ferndale, CA; Redwood Acres Fair Office, Eureka, CA.

And of course, right here on the web site.

We are looking forward to getting our products into our local supermarkets! Ask your favorite market if they would stock the coffee, give them my phone number: (707) 443-9798. Want Coffee? Drink Cowboy Blend Coffee, A Good Coffee For a good Cause!

The Past
Iaqua Ranch House

The Fultons migrated from Great Britain. New emigrants coming to Nova Scotia, and other parts of Canada in the early days were from Northern Ireland, but some of them, including the early Fultons, were Scots who emigrated from Scotland to Ireland in the reign of James I in the early 17th century. We believe that our ancestors of the Fultons in this history came from Ayrshire, Scotland. Records show the Reverend Doctor Robert Fulton on Sept. 8, 1614 was directed to visit Lady Arabella Stewart, then a prisoner in the Tower of London, as her chaplain. She was imprisoned because of her marriage to William Seymour, later The Marquess of Hartford.

Winter of '84 at Iaqua Ranch
Soon afterwards some members of the Rev. Dr.'s family went to Ireland, some settling in Lisburn on estates recently granted to the Seymour family. Around the year 1865 the family migrated to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia.

Robert Fulton SR, Great Great Grandfather of Roy Fulton, sailed from Ireland on a ship later known as the "starvation" ship. It is reported that as food became scarce the passengers were forced to eat the dead bodies. Just when they were forced to ask for a volunteer for food, land came into view. This land was Poverty, Nova Scotia.

Roy's Grand Father left Nova Scotia and came to Humboldt county where he worked in the logging camps. He could not find a woman he thought would make a good wife so he traveled back to New Brunswick and married Maria Hopkins. They arrived in Humboldt with fifty cents and needed a place to live. Frank Fulton was an honest, well liked man and the owner of a boarding house agreed to let them stay and pay when he earned the money. Frank was a hard working industrious man and he acquired and ran a small store in Eureka. He then bought property in the Arcata bottoms area and started a dairy where he raised his family of five sons and two daughters.

Frank bought the Kneeland property in the early 1900 for his son Charley who had asthma hoping it would help his condition. Charley died and Frank took his younger son Bill there and they worked it together until Bill ( Roy's father) married and settled on the ranch at Kneeland.

Roy and Betty married in 1960 and brought their two families of four sons and two daughters together. Then in 1961 they had another son making the family complete with seven children. With lots of acreage and lots of horses they kept them all busy.

As time went by, Roy purchased several more ranches to add to the business. In 1992 Roy and Betty purchased the Home Ranch at Kneeland from Roy's sisters and they moved from the Iaqua Ranch to the Home Ranch at Kneeland. Roy and Betty have 12 grandchildren and 1 great grandson. The fifth generation of Fultons is already working in the ranching business in Humboldt County.

Betty was a budding artist and went into business with her friend Carol and her son Michel Enos. Together they founded Baaa Company.