Harvest Night Benefit
In partnership
An invitation from NuWave Lending & 84 Ranch
Harvest Night Benefit
Friday, October 2, 2026 · 84 Ranch, Pagosa Springs
One evening on a working farm and ranch, raising the money that teaches the next generation of farmers and ranchers how to do this work. Reserve a table, bid from wherever you are, or put your company's name on the night.
If you've worked with me at NuWave Lending, you know I don't send these often. 84 Ranch is one of the most exciting regenerative ranches I've come across — and they've launched a nonprofit to put the next generation of farmers and ranchers on real ground, with real animals and real equipment. October 2nd in Pagosa Springs is the night that funds it, and your chance to be part of what they're building.
Jerry Williams
NuWave Lending
Why this one
Regenerative Youth of 84 Ranch trains young people in four working roles — grower, livestock manager, ranch mechanic, ranch manager — not in a classroom, and not on a simulator. The average American farmer is 56 years old, and this is one of the few things I've seen doing something concrete about that. The ranch is Brian Wattier's, built after he left a corporate career, and Friday night is the single largest fundraising night the program has all year. NuWave Lending is a Founding Partner of the festival. And if Colorado is a long way from you, you can still bid on the auction or back the night from your desk.
Four ways to be part of it
Two of them you can do from anywhere in the country.
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The best seats in the room
Reserve a table
A reserved table at the front of the program, close enough to the auction to be part of it. Your name on the table. Served where you sit — the youth program's own students bring the food and drinks to you, which is the part everybody remembers. A bidder paddle waiting at your seat, ready the moment you are.
There are six tables in the room — four reserved and two benefactor. When they are gone, they are gone.
- $1,500Reserved Table of SixBring your peopleSix seats together at the front and your name on the table. Drinks poured for the table all evening, and a board of 84 Ranch pasture-raised pork brought out for your table alone. Four tables.
- $2,500Benefactor Table of SixThe heart of the whole nightEverything above, your name read aloud from the stage, and a founding family membership to 84 Ranch when the program opens. Two tables.
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From anywhere in the country
Bid on the auction, or just give
The live auction is the heart of the night, and most of what's in it only exists because this is a working ranch — a whole pasture-raised hog, custom cut to your order and delivered to your door; a weekend in one of the ranch cabins; a private dinner cooked at the barn; the ranch's own tallow skin-care collection; a day working this land alongside us; a year's sponsorship of an animal that carries your family's name. You do not have to be in the room to win any of it.
Or skip the bidding and give straight to the youth program. Every dollar goes to Regenerative Youth of 84 Ranch.
If you're coming to the ranch, the auction is included with every Harvest Night ticket — there is no separate ticket for the auction.
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For businesses on this list
Put your name on the night
Friday night is still unnamed. Sponsorship is the most direct way to move the number, it happens before the event, and it comes with real visibility in front of a room of ranchers, business owners and families — plus year-round recognition through the ranch.
- $5,000Presenting Sponsor“Harvest Night Benefit, presented by ___.” Named from the stage, on the page, and in the program. Includes a reserved table of six.
- $3,500Supper UnderwriterYou cover the meal, so we can tell the room every dollar raised goes to the kids. Six seats at the benefit.
- $2,500The HarvestYour name on the demonstration most people came to see. Four seats at the benefit.
- $2,500Auction SponsorOn every bid sheet and named between lots. Four seats at the benefit.
- $1,000Bonfire & ConcertYour name on the last two hours — when the asking stops, the fires get lit and the band plays the room out. Two seats at the benefit.
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Come to the ranch
General admission
Gates at 3:00. The live hog harvest with Brandon of Farmstead Meat Smith, supper off this land, an artist working a canvas nobody sees until she turns it around, then the auction and the ask. Music and a bonfire to close. Out by nine. Open seating. Every ticket to Harvest Night is $55 — the six tables above are the only reserved seating in the room.
- $55AdultOne ticket covers the whole night — the harvest demonstration, supper, the auction and the concert.
- $10Kids 5–14Under 5 free. The harvest is narrated and educational; families are welcome.
- $39Camping, per nightStay on the property and skip the drive back.
- $80Weekend bundleAdds Saturday's full festival: pig races, live music, the vendor market and more.
Early-bird pricing ends September 15.
How the evening runs
Come when the gates open and eat at your own pace. From 5:30 the program runs from one stage — music woven through it, start to finish.
3:00 PMGates openThe ranch opens. Camping guests settle in, the bar opens, and the weekend begins.
3:30 PMThe harvestBrandon Sheard of Farmstead Meatsmith takes a single pasture-raised hog through the whole traditional process, narrated start to finish.
3:30 PMThe bidding tables openSilent auction and raffle open. Beside them an artist begins a canvas she will paint blind through the whole evening — its face turned from the room until the moment it isn't.
5:00 PMReception & supperFarm-to-table bites of 84 Ranch pasture-raised pork, passed through the crowd as the music rises.
5:30 PMThe benefit programMusic begins, then the story of this place, an invitation to give, and the live auction — live animals first, then ranch stays, private dinners and days working this land.
7:20 PMThe grand finaleThe painting turns right-side up for the first time and goes to the floor as the final lot. Then the raffle is drawn, and the evening's number is read aloud to the room that made it.
7:30 PMConcert & bonfireNo more asking. Music, fire and a drink until nine.
And there's a whole second day — see Saturday
8:30 AMGates openVendors, livestock stations, the wellness garden and the tethered balloon all come to life at once.
8:30 AMButchery with the MeatsmithThe same pig, taken apart the traditional way — nothing trimmed, nothing wasted.
11:00 AMChoose your experienceThree hands-on classes at once: sausage making, tallow rendering and skin care, and a living-soil demonstration.
1:00 PMWhole hog roast revealA hog roasted through the night comes open in front of the crowd. Gloves on.
1:45 PMPig races & greased pig catchingThe loudest, best hour of the day.
3:00 PMCuringSalt, pork and time — prosciutto, bacon, guanciale and coppa.
4:30 PMRoping competitionSide-by-side team roping, horses and the ranch donkey on hand.
6:00 PMBonfires, supper and musicThe fires take and the night runs to the last song at nine.
Roping, blacksmithing, livestock stations, balloon rides, the wellness area, the vendor market, Little Wranglers and food trucks run all day around it. See the full Saturday schedule →
