"It'll be right," Wilson muttered under his breath as he dropped the hood shut on his rental car and turned his back on it. The shiny automobile continued to make the strange whiny whistly noise, even though it wasn't running. Wilson's three-word declaration spoke finality on the noise issue: he …
In Search of Wild Protein
"Have you been elk hunting?" The heavily accented man who spoke to me from across the crystal-clear pool yesterday displayed the telltale signs that he had been hunting for several days. His unshaven and dark complexion face that hung over his tired looking frame further betrayed the ache his body …
Salt
The hungry fire crackled in the night as I fed it another small log under the stately fir trees along the shores of Hat Creek. Flickering firelight danced on the rough barked boles of the trees, and lit the foliage of the aspen and alder trees in the dense understory around us. It couldn't be a …
Alderspring Beef is: Better for YOU Better for the ANIMALS Better for the ENVIRONMENT Better for RURAL FAMILES WHY? BETTER FOR YOU Compared to grain-fed beef, research has found grass fed beef is naturally lean, less than half the total fat contains up tp …
When Grassfed Betrays Wild
Did you ever have something you see or hear that just doesn't sit right? And it takes a little bit of time to sprout into a nice little bloom of quite unexpected red rosy anger? Well this one took just a little over a month, and it started when I watched another producer's seemingly innocuous video …
All Quiet on the Western Ranch
The half-moon high overhead intermittently beamed through the clouds last night as Annie and I quietly navigated the lumbering hay rack wagon loaded with 4000 lbs of preserved summer grass out to our waiting beeves. Red and Jingle, the hugely muscular draft geldings walked out in cadenced rhythm …