Six Bar Six is a Family Legacy spanning 6 generations beginning with Marc's great grandfather Newton Jasper Phillips in 1899. Newt and his wife Nettie homesteaded the original 200 acre homestead in "Bootjack", Mariposa, CA in 1900. Just outside of Yosemite National Park. For 5 generations the Phillips family was involved with horses, ranching, and high- country packing in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Over the years pieces of the homestead were broke into smaller parcels for family members but the Legacy remained. In 2019 Marc and Barbara Phillips, and their son Hayden moved from the Yosemite area to find a State that provided a way forward for their entrepreneurial dreams, and one of the last pieces of the original homestead was sold as Marc's mother Loretta followed North in 2020. It may be a new location, but the Legacy continues. The family purchased property in the North Idaho Panhandle in 2020, re-registered the 6 Bar 6 family Brand in Idaho, and quickly got to work rebuilding their ranching lifestyle from deep family roots.

 

Six Bar Six is now a small but growing Performance Horse and Cattle Ranch in North Idaho. The training facility consists of a 120'x200' arena with professional footing. South of the arena is a 50' enclosed round corral with deep sand footing, and on the East side of the property are pipe corrals, pastures, the cattle fitting area and wash rack where they prepare their champion full-blood American Aberdeen cattle for shows. The acreage may be tight, but they work hard at pasture rotation and management, making the operation a perfect fit for raising American Aberdeen cattle which are genetically bred to excel on grass forage and are ideal for the small acre ranch or farm. 

 

The breeding program, for both cattle and horses, uses only superior genetics raised under regenerative practices, producing quality animals humanely raised with lower environmental impacts. Six Bar Six Ranch is committed to thoughtful land and wildlife stewardship, while building a sustainable product and a lasting legacy for generations to come.