The Wild Ones; New 16ths and Corned Beef! Also Bacon, Top Sirloins, Ground beef, Kabobs!
Dear Friends and Partners,
Welcome to Alderspring’s weekend edition newsletter!
In this letter is Glenn’s weekly story, a suite of pics about work on the ranch this week, and an update on this week’s featured cuts!
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And, as always, if you have any questions, observations, or comments, just shoot us an email to Kelsey at help[at]alderspring[dot]com.
Next shipping day is March 7, 2022
Place your order by Sunday at midnight on the 6th to get it shipped on the 7th!
Looking for this week’s featured cuts? Head to the page below. Scroll on down for Glenn’s story and other newsletter stuff!
This week’s cuts include weekend flash deals on rump roasts and flatiron steaks, as well as this week’s featured cuts: Korean-Style Short Ribs (the bacon of beef!), Fatty Ground, and Wild Hunter (something for your pets)!
Also just in! New 16th Beeves and also Corned Beef Roasts for St. Patty’s Day (we only do these once a year)!
6th daughter Annie and Ginny, the border pup, waiting for Maddy (youngest daughter) to arrive to help her feed some hay to the cattle!
The feeding team!
Quote of the Week
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
―Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
This Week’s Story: The Wild Ones
This week’s story was written by Abby, the second of the 7 daughters.
It was just Becky and I in the front, driving the long dark road home from Salmon. My three little kids snored in their car seats in the back, rocked to sleep by the gentle motion of the car following the winding Salmon River. On winter nights, the mountains on either side of the canyon are monolithic, the little homes with glowing windows reminiscent of porcelain Christmas houses. On such nights when the wind swirls the snow and the desert is empty, I’m grateful to shut the winter outside.
We were just coming up on one of my favorite places, an old homestead that had been built into the wide curve of a hillside along the river canyon, most likely in the days when Highway 93 was just a hardscrabble dirt road. “Grapes of Wrath,” my dad called it. It had been about a decade since anyone lived there. The more recent inhabitants had rapidly absconded with their double-wide after a huge boulder rolled down the mountain in the night and landed at their back door.
….Read the rest below!
Featured Weekly Cuts
A quick summary of this week’s featured cuts:
(As always, only you newsletter readers have access to these discounts)
This week (until Sunday the 20th at midnight MST) you can get 10% off on the following cuts:
- Fatty bacon!
- Top Sirloin Steaks
- Stew Beef and Kabob Stock Up (these make for great tacos or stir fries, too)!
- Ground Beef
And that’s it for this week!
Thanks again for partnering in what we do!
Glenn, Caryl, cowgirls and cowboys at Alderspring.
We’ve been crafting our pastured protein here in Idaho’s Rocky Mountains for nearly 30 years and delivering it direct to our partners for nearly as long. This is wild wellness, delivered from our ranch to your door.
Your partnership in Alderspring helps us maintain what is unique in today’s agricultural world; Alderspring is a Carbon NEGATIVE and Climate POSITIVE operation. For every one pound of Alderspring beef, we put a NET of eight pounds of CO2 equivalents into the soil. We’ve done the numbers & had them vetted by soils & carbon experts.
Dominique Nelson
Thank you for sharing such beautiful stories with us. I love your newsletter and the high purpose of what you all do!
Linda Querry RN
Abby, thank you for writing about your lived experience. In these very troubled times, it provides a connectedness to what is best in our species. I enjoyed the entire story, but my favorite image was,
On winter nights, the mountains on either side of the canyon are monolithic, the little homes with glowing windows reminiscent of porcelain Christmas houses. – a wonderful moment of appreciation and peace. thanks. I hope you will always have time to keep writing your truth. You are very talented.
Alderspring Ranch
Hello Linda, thank you so much for taking the time to read and share these kind words! I will pass on your comments to Abby…I’m sure she’ll love to hear!
Dug roos
Reading your stories each saturday from the darkness of africa( power cuts)
We on a ranch farm in Zimbabwe.
And each week we look forward to reading anout the ranch nature, weather … the beeves.
It makes our week especially the regerative info soil health and nature land improvement.
Keep the stories coming we love them. Wish we had a country where the powers that be supported farmers and ranchers.
Great 7 gals and mum and dad + dogs.
Sincere fan from Shangani ranch
Dug
Steve Schechter
Abby’s writing this week is wonderful in every way—so engaging, and beautifully expressed. Really conveys a sense of place and the feelings evoked. Thank you, Abby!
Alderspring Ranch
Thank you for reading, Steve! I’ll pass this on to her!