Organic Beef Matters
News from Alderspring Ranch, with an occasional rant about American agriculture
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 …
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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 …
I slid my envelope across the counter to the postal clerk that I had the pleasure of interacting with at the Salmon, Idaho post office. “First Class, Kathy.†She was a former ranch neighbor of ours from Tendoy, Idaho, where Alderspring started 24 years ago, when we purchased our first ranch from …
The July sun was bouncing along the mountains that formed the western horizon above Idaho's Lemhi Valley, and Caryl, the kids and I had just finished dinner. The midsummer days in our northern latitudes were long, with light lasting until after 10 PM. Even though it was almost 9:30, I started to …
Cowgirl Melanie catches her horse, Sunny (yes, the brown mare is named Sunny), in the corrals on a beautiful late fall day. …
Even at high elevations on the Alderspring range, beaver can be found building their dams in flowing mountain creeks. …
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