Ram Pride by the Cupful
- Media Logic Radio
- Jan 28
- 3 min read
Jan 22, 2026 | By Makenna Majors
Alumna Meghann Blach pours knowledge back into her community
Off Highway 34 in Northeastern Colorado, there’s a gathering spot where folks meet to warm their bellies and hearts. This family farmhouse, now a bustling coffee shop and specialty market, welcomes the many people who have sown, grown, and harvested so much for their community over the years.
Many of them are farmers in Yuma and surrounding towns, and many of them are Colorado State University alumni.
Ram Pride is deep as the fibrous root systems of wheat, here, and taller than the corn and sunflowers.
Meghann Blach (B.S., ’10) built her coffee business, Farm House Market, to uplift her own family’s rich agricultural legacy – she’s a fifth-generation agriculturalist – and to fill a modern-day need for her neighbors and friends.
Blach had the idea for Farm House Market while studying animal science and agricultural business as a student at CSU’s College of Agricultural Sciences. What started as an academic marketing project quickly gained momentum with encouragement from her teacher, Marshall Frasier, who saw its real-world potential.
“As part of the project, we had to go out and ask people in small communities what they needed or were missing,” Blach says, “And in Yuma, the number one response was a gourmet coffee shop with a drive-thru.”
After graduating, Blach brought the idea home to Yuma. She opened Farm House Market in 2011. While the business has evolved over the years, Blach’s vision remains true.
So, through each cup of coffee and homestyle meal Blach serves, she’s also helping CSU keep its land-grant promise to pour knowledge and opportunity back into rural Colorado.
A harvest lunch with heart
Under Colorado-blue October skies, during peak harvest time, CSU leaders, volunteers, and community partners, hand delivered craft-sack lunches to alumni-owned farms across the region, all lovingly prepared by Blach and the staff at Farm Houst Market.
A seemingly simple exchange and token of goodwill was symbolically so much more: Ram to Ram, generation to generation, Rams remain connected and engaged through commitment to the land-grand mission. It was a tangible way to thank the Rams working long days during harvest. And it’s a beautiful example of the way Blach runs her business with care for her community and deep respect for its history.
The visit with Blach at Farm House Market was one stop among dozens that CSU leaders made during a fall 2025 CSU Leadership State Tour through Logan and Yuma Counties to visit the people and places advancing CSU’s mission. The tour visited farms, ranches, schools, businesses, and community partners, all connected by a shared belief in the power of education and agriculture.
An 80-year legacy of Ram Pride
Blach’s connection to CSU spans generations. A third-generation Ram, she grew up in a family where CSU education, agriculture, and athletics were a constant presence.
Both of her parents, Jim and Kristie Docheff of Longmont, Colorado, are CSU graduates and recipients of the College of Agricultural Sciences Honor Alumni Award. Her older brother and maternal grandparents also earned degrees from the University. She met her husband, Jeremy, while attending CSU, and he’s also a third-generation Ram.
Across the Blach and Docheff families, more than 80 people have attended CSU since the 1940s, with roots reaching back to the Colorado A&M days. Across generations, family members have gone on to lead in agriculture, education, business, and their communities.
Beyond their shared CSU experience, Meghann and Jeremy are also fifth-generation agriculturalists, continuing a family tradition rooted in Colorado agriculture for more than a century.
Today, Meghann balances entrepreneurship, agriculture, and raising their family, while Jeremy oversees the Blach family cattle operation.
Together, their work reflects the values CSU was founded on: education, service, and a commitment to strengthening rural communities.
“In agriculture, I feel that family is just so important,” Blach says. “You have to have those generations before you to get to where you are now.”
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