We had a wonderful Thanksgiving here on the ranch. We had 23 folks over for dinner, and enjoyed pasture raised turkey raised by a former employee (2 birds--yum!—thinking maybe we should carry it in the webstore!). It did get pretty loud with all those kids in there, so we headed out to feed the …
From the High Prairie to the Pahsimeroi
It was a beautiful but crispy subzero on the ranch this morning, the day after Thanksgiving. Black Friday, as they call it in other places in the world, was quiet on Alderspring: windless and soundless. There was no line of cars in my way out to fork hay to hungry beeves soon after the sun came up …
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Photo of the Day: Hat Creek Canyon View
The view from the road above our mountain property is made even more astounding with fresh fall snow on the Lemhi Range peaks. …
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Reflecting on the Range
It was before sunup this morning that I was out on the ranch doing my first morning chores. The frost hit hard with an icy coating over all of our meadows. I guess that's it then"¦so much for the alfalfa component of our pastures. It will grow no more. It still has value and flavor"¦it is just done …
Photo of the Day: Retirement
The old combine stands in permanent retirement. It is more cost-effective for us to have our hay custom cut by a neighbor, so the old equipment belonging to the previous owner remains parked, providing a home to field mice and pack rats. …
Fall on Alderspring Ranch
Newsletter from September 27, 2014: Fall has officially arrived on the Ranch, with cool weather and a little bit of color on the trees and shrubs along the river bottoms. Aspens are just beginning to show tinges of gold; the dogwoods are highlighted with red. Higher up, low clouds lazily drift …