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	<title>Riding for the Brand</title>
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		<title>Old Goats and New Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alderspring Ranch has been home to goats for quite while, ever since Dad decided that goat milk would be a good thing to add to our diet. We went to look at two black Nubian goats and after we were hauling them back in the trailer, my sister and I began to negotiate with Dad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alderspring.com/grassfed-girls/2010/old-goats-and-new-kids/</link>
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		<title>The Wild Mustang: Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since my mom is a botanist, she gets contracts from the BLM to find, identify and document rare plants. This year, she got a job looking for a few species along a creek and a road. Its official name was Road Creek. That was the name on the signs.
I went with her on a similar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alderspring.com/grassfed-girls/2010/the-wild-mustang-part-1/</link>
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		<title>The Great Hotwire Stampede</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the summer, Alderspring beef cattle graze on green pasture. The yearlings and two-year-olds bound for the online market stay home on the ranch. Once the mother cows have “calved out”, we turn them out on the range.

Green pasture on Alderspring.
When the grass is growing two inches a minute during the hot months, the cattle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alderspring.com/grassfed-girls/2010/the-great-hotwire-stampede/</link>
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		<title>Range Riders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before we load the horses, we always tack them up instead of packing our saddles and headstalls along in the back of the truck. We have a stock trailer made for hauling cattle, so we don&#8217;t have a tack room built in. The horses are currently out in the big pasture behind our house, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alderspring.com/grassfed-girls/2010/range-riders-2/</link>
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		<title>Remuda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To start the year out, we had about fourteen horses. I think. Then, I found an orphan mustang colts in the hills, left behind after a round up. And we also found craigslist. So now we have twenty horses.
Since it’s winter in the Pahsimeroi and this valley makes snow look pretty good, I decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the Wild Cayuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
A while ago, one of our friends got engaged. Since she was going to be married, she could no longer keep her two horses. They were both Arabians, although only the mare had official papers. The mare was seventeen and cute, with a coat that was long and soft even during the summer. She was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alderspring.com/grassfed-girls/2009/breaking-the-wild-cayuses/</link>
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		<title>My Horse April</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This is the story of my beloved horse, April.
I will tell the tale as I remember it.
I was eight years old when our neighbor&#8217;s son came to sell us two horses:  Shippie and April. I think it was even my eighth birthday, and I had just received a horse blanket.
Dad tried her out first. Then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alderspring.com/grassfed-girls/2009/my-horse-april/</link>
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		<title>Team Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ On the ranch, we own two Suffolk Punch draft horses, by the names of Red and Snap. Basically, they are our volunteer fence-knocking down crew. This, because of immense size and weight (they could cut back a little), is easy for them, and more than one of our vehicles have marks from one of those horses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alderspring.com/grassfed-girls/2009/team-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Riding for the Brand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m the oldest of seven sisters in Idaho. We all ride for Glenn Elzinga, our dad and boss on a 1700 acre ranch in &#8220;the middle of nowhere&#8221;. We fall a bit short of the old time cowboys riding for a big outfit, getting meager pay. Really, most of what we do is little stuff, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alderspring.com/grassfed-girls/2008/hello-world/</link>
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