Organic Beef Matters
News from Alderspring Ranch, with an occasional rant about American agriculture
A big project we're working on this spring is a complete irrigation upgrade on the ranch. The project closes a long irrigation diversion ditch that sourced out of the Pahsimeroi River that we shared with about 4 neighbors. All of us have agreed to close the ditch to better ensure sufficient flow …
Continue Reading about Fish-friendly Irrigation at Alderspring Ranch
Spring on the ranch is the busiest time of year! Fields are being readied for spring, fences being mended, irrigation systems are upgraded, and new calves are being born daily (we are averaging 5 new babies a day). They take a large amount of time as we carefully monitor their health, as well as …
Continue Reading about New Calves – the Start of Grassfed Beef for 2010
Nine year old Mae likes to make muffins on Saturday morning. As those beautiful corn and buckwheat muffins rolled out of the tins, I had just come back from checking cows (had two new babies before sunup) and fixing fence (they had gotten out and were eating my brand new crested wheatgrass …
Continue Reading about Muffins by Mae Worth Getting Out of Bed For
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 …
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