Our Story
We’re Ryan and Katherine Harvey, a husband and wife team living our best life in Ohio with our two children, Ansel and Norah.
In 2013, fueled by a juxtaposition of extreme busyness and our passion for healthy AND delicious food, we started Bare Bones with the first-ever grass-fed beef and organic chicken bone broths to help keep us nourished when at home and on the go.
We’re on a mission to reimagine food as a fun, healthy and delicious source of nourishment for better meals, better energy, and better living. We want to meet you wherever you are with nourishing, great-tasting products in a form that best fits your lifestyle. Whether it’s as a base for a home cooked meal, or an energizing sipping snack, we got you covered.
Ryan’s Story
When I was 18 my dad passed away unexpectedly of a heart attack. He was just 39 years old. Terrified of facing the same outcome, I turned to nutrition and exercise and committed myself to a life of health and wellness. I joined the military and became obsessed with fitness, eventually discovering CrossFit and subsequently the paleo lifestyle.
I became fascinated with food as fuel, and attended culinary school with ambitions of cooking in the best kitchens. Once I met my wife (and co-founder), Katherine, I realized the chef life was not for me.
As a chef, I would spend a lot of time making stocks from scratch that would be used as the base in everything from soups and stews to sauces and gravies. The idea for Bare Bones hit me when I began sipping these stocks by the cup and found they provided incredible energy and nourishment.
Properly made stock is nothing like the flavorless, nutrient-void liquids found boxed up in the supermarket. So, I decided to change that by reinventing packaged broth. What if I take this timeless staple, used in kitchens around the world for generations, and reimagine it as a delicious source of serious nourishment?
Katherine’s Story
I was 18 when I was diagnosed with arthritis in my feet. I had been a ballet dancer, and I knew then that it meant I would never dance again, and I would be in pain every step I took for the rest of my life.
At 25, I met this guy, Ryan. He gave me a book that advocated for eating real, whole foods without the preservatives and artificial ingredients of most modern-day foods. I followed the paleo diet, going from vegetarian to carnivore, and after a month, my arthritis pain dissolved. It was then that I realized food can be a slow and silent killer - or a powerful medicine to heal and nourish our bodies.
That’s why Ryan (now my husband) and I founded Bare Bones. We make
broth the old-fashioned way, sourcing the best ingredients from sustainable sources, and simmering them for 18+ hours to extract real flavor and nutrients, to heal and nourish others for a life lived well.
Our mission at Bare Bones is to meet you where you are and nourish you with real, whole-food-based nutrients in the form that best fits your lifestyle.
Our team
Careers
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