Organic Beef Matters
News from Alderspring Ranch, with an occasional rant about American agriculture
Dear Friends The Arctic cold has finally subsided on the Ranch. We are enjoying sunny 20 degree days now, and are relishing the balm of breezes that are over 55 degrees warmer than we endured over the last 3 weeks. Amazingly I don't notice any particular difference in the cattle. The only thing I …
Continue Reading about Raising Character and Cattle on the Range
Dear Friends I stepped outside to get some wood to the hungry maw of the woodstove (wood is our only source of heat), and each step of my boots squeaked in the dry, hard snow of the path. I can guess the temperature within 10 degrees just by the way the snow sounds. We have over 2 feet of snow …
Dear Friends It is late on Saturday night, and we are pretty flat with exhaustion from our honest fight with an unusually cold winter. My creative juices are a little expired, so this tome is a short one. Tomorrow, Sunday, is usually a light day for us, but there are enough things that need …
As I write this, the little house where we have our office is shaking in the buffeting gale force winds that sweep in from the north. It's a ground blizzard day. The recipe for a successful blizzard started this morning with key ingredients of 8 inches of light powder snow that fell over the past …
Continue Reading about Alderspring Beeves and T-shirts in Winter
It was high summer in the high Lemhi at nearly 7000 feet elevation. The year was 1990, and Caryl and I were working on the highest and one of the remotest ranch spreads in these Central Idaho Rockies. The owner of it all, Lloyd Clark, was coming hot and heavy with a young and green draft horse team …
It was in the late 1980's and Caryl and I were in the Midwest so Caryl could work on her Ph.D. It was late fall, and I was looking for a little harvesting work in the corn belt while she finished up her research and dissertation. Now, Midwestern October weather wasn't exactly what we had gotten used …
