Organic Beef Matters
News from Alderspring Ranch, with an occasional rant about American agriculture
These resources are a good start if you want to learn more about producing grass fed beef and organic grassfed beef for niche markets. When we first started raising grassfed beef 20 years ago, internet resources were limited, but now you can spend days reading the abundant information online. We …
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I startle awake from a dream very unlike my reality. I'm bolt upright, eyes wide open, because the lead rope I had in my hand is gone, and the horse on the other end was my only conveyance off of this rockpile. My mare, Ginger, has light-fingered her rope from my relaxed sleeping grip. I didn't mean …
Continue Reading about The Beeves Hit the High Ranges Running!
Alderspring's remuda enjoys the June rainstorms that fill the valley with the fresh scent of growing alfalfa and sagebrush from the nearby rangeland. …
Continue Reading about Photo of the Day: Horses in Spring Rain
High Valley summer officially arrived at Alderspring this week. The mercury pushed near eighty degrees—a fairly wide swing from frost this morning. I often leave sweaters and wool vests around the ranch at this time of year and my aging cranium often has trouble recalling which fencepost I left them …
Continue Reading about Alderspring Consultant Spotlight: Lewis and Clark and the Shoshoni
The beautiful Lemhi Range, as seen from the ridge above Hat Creek. …
Continue Reading about Photo of the Day: Lemhi Mountain Range
Five of us broke away from the Ranch yesterday on horseback to check out the low country of Alderspring's summer range. There was a water tank to get fixed up at Magpie springs, we had spring-green horses to ride and get buck and crow-hop out of, and I just wanted to scope out the grass situation …
