Dear Friends and Partners,
Welcome to Alderspring’s weekend edition newsletter! Thank you for partnering in what we do!
Below you can find beef discounts, Glenn’s weekly story, and lots of photos from the ranch and range!
Scroll down for this week’s story:
“Alderspring Beeves and T-shirts in Winter”
This Week’s Store Update & Coupons
NEXT SHIPPING DAY: Monday, September 23rd
What’s In Stock
Beef was restocked earlier this week. Unfortunately, many cuts have already sold out, but we still have:
- Family box sixteenth
- Sixteenth with shoulder tender, flat iron, and sirloin steak
- Sixteenth with tri-tip, flat iron, and sirloin
- Sixteenth with flank and sirloin steaks
- Extra lean ground beef
- Organic beef bones
- Beef tongue
- Tenderloin steak
- Beef oxtail
- Smoked ham hock
- Bacon
- Pork chops
- Ground lamb
- Lamb German rosemary sausage
- Lamb loin chops
- Rack of lamb
- Lamb sirloin
- Lamb baby back ribs
- Leg of lamb
- Wild Alaskan sockeye salmon
This week’s coupon cuts
Use the code “EXTRALEAN” to get 10% off extra lean ground beef.
Use the code “SIXTEENTH” to get 5% off all sixteenths in stock.
Click the green button below or the green words above to access these cuts!
Special Mention:
Make sure to check out our new organic grass fed lamb German rosemary sausage!
Tallow lotion is available!
If you have any questions, observations, or comments, just send Kelsey an email at help[at]alderspring[dot]com.
Pictures from the ranch this week…
Glenn and Clyde making the rounds.
Back home from the range the herd is thoroughly enjoying the fall forage.
We are on the cusp of the changing season. We feel it in the nip in the air, the fall rains, the plants growing, blooming, going to seed, and beginning to head towards their winter slumber. Everything echoes with the sense that we have passed the apex. Summer, the time of long daylight, heat, and explosive growth, is coming to an end.
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Quote of the Week
“There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green, and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that it is all about to end, as if summer was holding its breath, and when it let it out again, it would be autumn.”
– Sharyn McCrumb
This week’s story: “Alderspring Beeves and T-Shirts in Winter”
Dear Friends
Football season is upon us. The Challis Vikings are the team we follow, as we are close with a couple of kids who play for them. Caryl and I will load up in the truck and try to take in as many home games as possible.
The distances they have to travel for away games are truly epic. Some of their competing schools are nearly 5 hours away, across mountain and desert, bleak fields of lava and 7600 foot snow clogged mountain passes. They’ll pass huge herds of elk in migration, dodge herds of bighorn sheep and antelope on the road and prevail through blizzard bound roads, and within a day or so, a relapse to summer scorching heat.
Sure, the driving gets long, but such is life in America’s outback. And there was even a lesson buried in Idaho football for us ranching in that outback, even though my slow on the uptake mind didn’t originally get it.
Come with me as I share a tale from the junior gridiron, and see how even that has a lesson that nature has been trying to tell me for some time.
Happy Trails.
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.
Why is Inventory Low Lately?
Here’s where we’re at on the “low inventory” situation…and why it’s low in the first place! We know many of you have been with us for a long time and rely on us as your source of protein (and we’re so grateful)!
In the last few months, we’ve been hit by a lot of unexpected demand.
When it comes to raising beef, changes in demand can be very difficult to respond to quickly. It takes us 2-3 years to raise an animal to finish. That means we plan our inventory needs about 2 years in advance.
Many companies and producers we know of that sell direct-to-consumer respond to sudden increases in demand by buying outside cattle (often at sale barn auctions) and then selling that beef under their label. This is VERY common.
But this kind of “cow flipping” isn’t something we’re willing to do.
We know the entire history of every beef we sell. That’s important to us, and we know it’s important to you and part of why you trust us to raise your beef.
We’re working right now to gradually increase our available inventory to hopefully provide more beef! But at a certain point, we actually can’t expand further without compromising our standards.
We know that the reason many of you order from us is because we’re small scale. We butcher our cattle at a small processor that only does about 80 head of cattle per week (compared to thousands at a big facility). This also limits our capacity to expand, because they, too, are functioning at capacity right now. We also raise only as many cattle as our pastures can support without degrading our soils. And we’re still small enough that Glenn personally looks at every single steak before he puts it in your box to ship to you. These factors are why you order from us! But it also means occasional inventory limitations.
Your partnership with alderspring directly supports our mission to improve soil health, wildlife habitat, and animal and human wellness through regenerative ranching practices.
Here’s what we’ve accomplished with your help & support in just the last 12 years!
More information about our regenerative practices and outcomes can be found at the button below.
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