There's more to springtime than the beauty of life regenerating. It's a real pleasure to be working outside with critters and grass. But the irony is that spring is also the time of many, many government meetings. The beeves, birds, and coyotes have it made! Of course, like everyone else, …
Under our Feet
Newsletter from April 17, 2015 Our rocky soils are thawed, though still cold from winter. We did some water line excavation yesterday with our ancient excavator (the first of its kind from 1966!) to get at a leak that developed over the winter, and found that there was soil life far deeper than …
Spring on the Ranch
Spring continues to slip its way into our lives as Alderspring is alive with the sounds of our returning summer avian residents: sandhill cranes, red-wing blackbirds, killdeer, and robins. Their welcome cacophony in the morning makes the icy stillness of January a distant memory. Things are …
What’s in the Water?
It looks like Winter's threats may indeed be real. She has been shaking her cold fist at us now after we were spoiled by a few weeks of warmth and the promise of spring. As I write, icy winds that come straight off the Arctic are sweeping the ranch, snow included. Caryl was thinking about planting …
The Story of Shelter
This week a customer who used to live in the Netherlands contacted me. She was wondering if our beeves go inside a barn for part of the year. She was raised in dairy country, in one of the north provinces of the Netherlands, as were my parents. There, as in the much of the US, milk cows are kept …
Photo of the Day: Team Effort
Ethan and Abby drive the Belgian team out to feed hay to the cattle. …