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This Week’s Story: The Pine Contortionist

The surf is pounding hard against solid rock as I write this. February winds drive breakers that hammer the basaltic pillars and haystacks dotting the shoreline and send spray rocketing skyward. Caryl managed to score a super reasonable house on the bluffs perched precariously along the Oregon seacoast for a short getaway. Our 60s bodies, minds and spirits needed a breather before grass decides to emerge on the ranch, and water, waves and sand will nicely do the trick…..

Store News

Next Shipping Date: Monday, February 24th

We generally ship every Monday, holiday weeks excepting (see calendar). You’ll get a tracking number when we ship your order. UPS may initially show an extra day of transit time, but will correct late Monday night when orders hit the Salt Lake hub.

Next Restock Date: Wednesday, February 26th

We restock every Wednesday and send out a sale flyer on Wednesday in the early evening with the week’s deals.

This Week’s Reader-Only Deals

Use the code “BEEFROAST” to get 10% off organic grass fed eye of round roasts and organic grass fed rump roasts!

Use the code “QUARTERS&SIXTEENTHS” to get 5% off all grass fed (not certified organic) quarters and sixteenths..

To access these sale items, and for more deals and products, you can click the button below!

Ranch News

Clouds covering the mountains on the side of the valley opposite the ranch. Photo credit Annie Elzinga.

Emily and Annie at the warehouse putting new inventory into the freezer. Photo credit Annie Elzinga.

Every two weeks upwards of 4000 lbs of beef has to be moved from the trailer, checked, entered into inventory and loaded into the freezer. Photo credit Annie Elzinga.

The waning gibbous moon illuminating the whole valley. Photo credit Annie Elzinga

The lease ranch (down the valley from the main ranch) the morning it snowed 6 inches over night. Photo credit Annie Elzinga

Shaggy dog + lots of new snow = very fuzzy snow monster. Photo credit Josh Whitling.

Melanie and Annie skiing at Lost Trail ski area on a powder day. Photo credit Annie Elzinga.

Josh and Rose about to go set up some electric fence. We’re grazing some winter stockpile grass right now, and we use hotwire fence to give the herd only a little at a time. This ensures that they don’t eat all the best forage first and leave only woody, low-nutrition stems behind. Giving them a little at a time makes them graze less selectively. We also feed hay on top of the winter stockpile to ensure we meet their nutritional needs. Photo credit Linnaea Piva.

Loading hay with the back-hoe onto the goose neck trailer in preparation to feed the cows and horses. Photo credit Annie Elzinga.

Ranching involves a large amount of mechanic-ing. Whether it’s the tractors, backhoes, trailers, trucks, atvs or motorcycles, keeping everything outfitted and running is it’s own full time job! Photo credit Rose Morris.

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