Organic Beef Matters
News from Alderspring Ranch, with an occasional rant about American agriculture
I really like eating steak. But eating the one I did the other night was really difficult. Fact is, I even lost some sleep on it and not because of indigestion"¦ You know, one really cool advantage to being in the beef business is that there is always beef to eat, and if you are a beef lover …
Continue Reading about A Lot at Steak: Quality is Everything
We have goats in the living room. Kid goats that were just born a little weak and cold today in this cold, windy, wintery blast we are having in April. Kid goats and 7 kid girls on the living room carpet by the wood stove with the kid girls trying to coax the kid goats into standing and trying to …
Continue Reading about Goats in the Living Room, Calves in the Bathtub
Got home real late from Salmon, ID, which happens to be our shipping location for UPS. I drove an hour one way down the twisty Salmon River canyon to get those boxes on the truck only to find out that the grocery store, our dry ice supplier, does not have enough to fill our orders. The ice truck …
Here is a poem that Marie wrote about night feeding: Feeding At night, When the stars are bright And light is most gone from the hills We get in the truck Me and Dad And with hay from the stack, Dad will fill up the back, Of our two ton with everlastin' will No need to go fast, But, …
Caryl spied me picking away at the hay stacks yesterday. I had 8 year old Rose with me, who was my color picker. She would point out the greenest ton bales of alfalfa grass hay, then I would pull some sample sprigs out from them and we would sniff them together. Anything smelling of sweet grass …
My 12 year old spotted the cow first. Down near the bottom of the meadow, now underwater with overflow from Lawson Creek, swollen with spring snowmelt. The cow was standing on a little island along the field edge in the rain. I looked vainly for little ears, any sign of life at her feet, but saw …
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