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Alderspring Ranch Organic Grass Fed Beef

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Wild & pristine organic grass fed beef, raised on our remote family ranch and delivered to your door.

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Meet Our Family!

Meet our family: Glenn, Caryl, and our seven daughters. It really is just us, our kids, and a few great employees! We’re literally out “on the ground” every day on the ranch, committed to raising the best grass fed beef while doing right by our animals, our land, and you, our customers.

When you order from us, you order directly from a real ranch & a real family.

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Photo of 6th daughter, Annie | Grass fed grass finished organic beef Alderspring Ranch

Protein you don’t have to feel guilty about

  1. 100% grass fed & finished on wild mountain pastures.
  2. No hormones, antibiotics, GMOs, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, or synthetic materials.
  3. Certified organic and 3rd party verified.
  4. Grown by real ranchers with over 25 years of experience.
  5. Raised regeneratively to improve land health, sequester carbon, and restore wildlife habitat.

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Photo of range rider Jake herding cattle | grass fed organic beef at Alderspring Ranch

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Alderspring has been referenced in the media as some of the best grass fed beef online

better beef for you…and the planet

no weird stuff, ever.

Our beef is certified organic and 100% grass fed on some of the wildest and cleanest pastures on the planet. We never use GMOs, pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, hormones, or chemicals of any kind.

wellness for people & planet

Our mission is health from literally the ground up. To us, it’s pretty simple: wellness for our soil and land means wellness for our cattle, which means greater nutrient density in our beef. As they say…you are what you eat eats!

exceptional quality & flavor

Grass fed has a reputation for leanness or weird flavors, but it doesn’t have to. We’ve honed our craft for 26+ years. Our beef has won taste tests alongside grain fed steaks and Japanese wagyu.

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what people say about our organic grass fed beef

Everything about Alderspring Ranch is outstanding. The meats, the sealing and packaging, the deliveries, the recycling of shipping materials, the website, and the entire family operation — all great. If that’s not enough, the weekly accounts and photos of ranch life and natural wonders are awe-inspiring bonuses.

Arvid E.

Google review

My husband and I have been ordering steak, burger and roasts from Alderspring Ranch for the last year and a half or so and won’t go back to the beef we lived on before. The beef is consistently excellent. The steaks (we order top sirloin) especially are tender and full of flavor every time. We are so happy we found these guys and will be long time customers.

Miranda A.

Google review

Best beef in America as far as I’m concerned! I have been buying grass-fed beef from all over the country since about 2008 and now order exclusively from Alderspring. It’s been wonderful to have this relationship – the service is highly personal as they treat you like family – much appreciated!

Alec H.

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The Story

Our cattle spend their entire lives on pasture on our Idaho ranch. During the fall, winter, and spring, they graze our certified organic home ranch pastures or eat our certified organic hay. During the summer, they graze our 70 square mile certified organic rangeland (currently the largest single certified organic landscape in the contiguous United States).

The country of our Idaho rangeland is wild, never farmed, rugged, and pristine. We also contend with predators: wolves, bears, mountain lions, and rattlesnakes. To successfully navigate this landscape while preventing overgrazing to sensitive wildlife habitats, our gritty crew of range riders lives with the cattle in remote cow camps for the duration of the summer, practicing our unique “inherding” methodology to increase rangeland health.

Annie, 3rd daughter, and her horse Bobbi | Alderspring organic grass fed meat
Annie, 6th daughter, during a day of herding
Range rider Justin, herding on the range | photo from Alderspring Ranch | Where to buy grass fed beef online
Justin, one of our 2020 range riders
Photo of cow camp 2020, Alderspring Ranch | Organic grass fed beef online
Cow camp 2020: a cook tent and a few canvas teepees
Alderspring ranch photo inherding | organic grass fed beef Idaho
The crew of riders after another long day of herding
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Linnaea, 3rd daughter, herding in thick timber

Over the course of the summer, one of our range riders covers an estimated 800 miles on horseback. The days are long, the sleep is little, the weather is challenging, but it’s a joy to ride this landscape and watch it regenerate and improve under our care.

Through our inherding method, we’ve captured an estimated 2400 tons of carbon, far exceeding our emissions. We’ve improved cattle health and wildlife habitat health. And we’ve also improved the nutrient-density of our beef through allowing our cattle to graze the huge diversity of wild plant species available on our rangeland.

As a result, this is grass fed beef like no other. It’s clean, flavorful, and nutrient dense. Perhaps most importantly, it’s raised in a way that benefits the land rather than harms, that restores rather than degrades.

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Cooking a Dutch Oven dinner, cow camp 2020.

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not just beef

We also offer other delicious pastured proteins on our online store (some only available seasonally).


  • Certified Organic Grass Fed Lamb
  • Certified Organic Pastured Butter
  • Raw Milk Sheep Cheese
  • Pastured Poultry
  • Pastured Pork

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find easy recipes on our cooking blog!

Not sure how to cook a particular cut? We have an entire cooking blog of delicious recipes to choose from! You can also sort them by dietary preferences! Find recipes here.

    read glenn’s stories from the ranch

    On our blog, Glenn shares everything from ramblings on sustainable agriculture (like what beef and gasoline have in common) to random epic stories he’s heard (like one winter night when our UPS guy saved someone’s life on the highway). Read the blog here.

      take our free course for other producers

      If you’re a small producer and want to start shipping and selling online, we made a free “lean startup” course to get you going! Find it here.

        Come join our crew this summer

        Our 2021 Range Rider internship application just opened! Click here to learn more about the position and apply. Deadline is February 10th. Learn more here.

          Faqs

          We always want to be upfront with you about how we produce your food. If you ever have any questions, you can reach out to us anytime on Instagram DMs, Facebook, or just by emailing help[at]alderspring.com!

          Here we’ve listed some of our most frequently asked questions! You can click through to learn more and find even more FAQs!

          Alderspring grass fed grass finished beef picture of cattle grazing | organic meat delivery
          Is your beef humanely raised?

          We believe we have a moral obligation to treat our animals with the utmost care and respect. Our animals spend their entire lives on pasture and are handled with low stress herding methods, and we ensure that processing is completely low stress and humane.

          More FAQs on how our beef is raised
          What does “certified organic beef” mean and how is it different than typical beef?

          Unlike natural and other eco-label claims, only organic offers assurance that products are grown and processed without the use of toxic chemicals, antibiotics and synthetic growth hormones. Organic is the most heavily regulated government food label. Only organic guarantees no toxic synthetic pesticides, toxic synthetic herbicides, or chemical NPK fertilizers are used in production of pastures or hay, and no antibiotics, pesticides, or growth hormones are given to animals. Organic producers and processors also are subject to rigorous announced – and unannounced – certification inspections by third-party inspectors to ensure that they are producing and processing organic products in a manner you and your family can trust.

          Here at Alderspring, we spend many hours and dollars managing animals and pastures organically. We control weeds with hand labor, beneficial insects, and targeted grazing rather than chemicals. We maintain the health of our herd by careful husbandry. And we improve the fertility of our soil through grazing management, working with nature.

          Additionally, we went one step further by certifying our beef with the “Real Organic Project,” a private label that has even higher standards than USDA organic. You can see the Real Organic regulations here.

          Learn More About our Standards Here
          What is “grass fed grass finished beef”?

          By “grass fed and finished,” we mean that our cattle have spent their entire lives on grass pasture. In their lifetimes they’ve consumed nothing but their mother’s milk, our diverse pasture grasses, and in the winter, hay harvested from summer grass. Our cattle are never fed grain and never see a feedlot.

          If you’re shopping for grass fed beef and you want beef from cattle never fed grain, always look for that “grass fed and finished” or “100% grass fed.” Simply “grass fed” can often mean that the animal was raised on grass but finished on grain.

          Side Note: Though you may have heard claims that grass fed and finished guarantees no chemicals, this is not the case. Herbicides, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, etc can still be used in producing grass fed beef. This is why we are certified organic as well as grass fed, in order to prove to you via an unbiased 3rd party organic certification inspection that we do not use any of these materials.

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          What is dry aging vs. wet aging and which one do you use?

          Aging beef is an important process that makes even the finest of beef more tender and flavorful. We have honed our aging process over the years to produce the most flavorful and tender beef without the development of off flavors or mycotoxins. We use dry-aging, a process that is more expensive and less common than wet-aging.

          Dry-aging is a process where prime cuts are exposed to temperature/moisture/light-controlled coolers where an outer crust will form. This crust is carefully removed, leaving meat that displays a distinctive flavor and tenderness that is only found when dry-aged. Not all dry-aging methods are equal; we’ve honed our method to create tenderness and flavor every time without the risk of harmful toxins developing.

          Wet-aging occurs when meat is placed inside of vacuum-sealed bags, preventing exposure to air and moisture from evaporating. Enzymes break down the meat‚ as complex proteins from the inside out. We have found that wet aging does not produce a desirable product for our grass fed beef.

          Learn More About How We Process Our Beef
          Does grass fed beef taste as good as grain fed?

          This can be a matter of opinion. We believe it tastes better!

          Some people dislike grass fed because they simply haven’t had good grass fed. Grass fed meat is notoriously inconsistent and most consider it too lean. This doesn’t have to be the case! We’ve perfected our practices for 26+ years to deliver consistent flavor every single time, as well as a higher fat content than most grass fed (and yes, more fat is a good thing! These are healthy pasture fats that bring both flavor and Omega 3s)! Due to our commitment to producing only the best, our steaks have won taste tests alongside Japanese wagyu and grain fed steaks.

          Yes, there is a flavor difference in grass fed that takes some getting used to, but we believe the flavor is better, cleaner, and wilder.

          learn more on grass fed vs grain fed beef
          Is grass fed beef harder to cook than conventional beef?

          Definitely not! It does require a slightly shorter cooking time, so do be aware of that.

          If you’re not sure how to cook a particular cut, we can help with that! Cooking beef is quite easy, and with great beef all you need is some basic ingredients (say goodbye to the miles-long recipes with 300 spices that you’ll find on most food blogs these days).

          If you want tasty recipes for our grass fed beef (and other meats), click through to our cooking blog via the link below, and use our “search” function to sort by cut & dietary preferences.

          visit our meat cooking blog!
          How is your beef shipped to me?

          Our beef is shipped frozen in a completely curbside recyclable insulated package via UPS, directly from here in Idaho to anywhere in the continental U.S! We use dry ice to keep it cold during transit so it arrives on your doorstep nice and cold!

          Learn More About Our Packaging
          I’m local! How can I get your grass fed beef in Boise or Salmon?

          We do have some local options for our organic grass fed beef:

          • Boise: You can get Alderspring grass fed beef in Boise at both Boise Co-ops! However, we just sell ground beef there. If you want a more diverse selection, you can order on our online store and get it delivered. We also do demos sometimes at the co-ops, which we announce on our Instagram!
          • Salmon: if you’re in Salmon or just coming through, we can do local delivery or pickup at our shipping warehouse on Mondays! You can order online and select the local delivery option at checkout.
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          1 family, 2 ecologists, 7 gritty daughters
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          Shipping our beef nationwide since 2005
          Restoring 70 sq miles of wild Idaho

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          We are now accepting applications for 2021 conserv We are now accepting applications for 2021 conservation range riders!
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Every summer, we turn a large proportion of our beef cattle out on 70 square miles of some of the most beautiful and rugged rangeland in Idaho. Rather than leaving our cattle to freely roam as we used to years ago, we have ridden with them every step of the way since 2015.

We first began experimenting with this concept of continuous human presence on the range as a non-lethal means of deterring wolf predation and to preserve sensitive ecological areas. As we have implemented this form of intensive conservation herding (which we call “Inherding”), we have also seen improved weight gains and health in our animals through targeted grazing, or meal planning, if you will. We also measure significant regeneration of native rangeland vegetation and wildlife habitat, both on upland sites and in riparian areas.

This will be our seventh season practicing Inherding on the Hat Creek grazing allotment. Supervising and caring for the cattle 24/7 requires that riding crews rotate in and out of remote cow camps through the summer, completing stints in the backcountry 4-8 days in length. Days are spent herding the cattle across the landscape with the help of fellow range riders, a string of hardworking horses, and a few loyal border collies.

The work is hard, the weather is capricious, the terrain is rugged and unforgiving, modern amenities are minimal, and the days can easily exceed 16 hours. It is a challenging job, but it is also a fulfilling one. It is our hope that range riders come away with an understanding of what it truly means to be a steward of living creatures and the land.

That is all to say that we are looking for some dedicated, humble, and gritty individuals to intern at Alderspring Ranch this summer! Interns will have the opportunity to improve their expertise in low-stress stockmanship, horsemanship, backcountry camping, and rangeland ecology, among other skills.

Visit the link in our bio to learn more about the position and to submit an application! -Melanie
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#regenerativeranching #inherding #conservationgrazing #rangerider 📷: @caitlin.connell.photo @melzingaphoto
          Some days, feeding cattle is really enjoyable work Some days, feeding cattle is really enjoyable work. The sun is shining, it's warm, the cattle are jumping around in anticipation, and the bales split perfectly into flakes that are easily pushed off the trailer. Then there are other days when it's cold and cloudy and the bales collapse into amorphous piles of leaves and stalks that require a lot of sweating and straining to push to the cattle.

But there's nothing that can put the chore in daily feeding chores than some winter wind. Hear me out, if you've never experienced it first-hand. If you've fed cattle anywhere the wind blows on occasion, you already know.

First of all, the best nutrients in the hay are largely found in the soft leaves. When the wind is howling 30 mph, those leaves are carried aloft despite our best efforts. Then the cattle are left with mostly twig-like stalks... not very palatable or nourishing. That's not the worst of it, though. After all, the cattle still eat their fill and are relatively happy as long as it's not terribly cold.

Wind takes the most toll on the feed crew. We try to stand upwind to avoid the onslaught of leaves pelting our skin, but it's impossible to avoid altogether. After a few minutes of flaking hay off the trailer, the skin on your face is red from being struck by tiny particles, your eyes are watering and partly clouded by hay dust, and your nose is running green trails of snot down your face. Not to mention the hay particles that somehow find their way into your gloves and the collar of your jacket. And other places not to be mentioned.

The after effects are equally wonderful. We rub hay out of red swollen eyes for a few days and each sneeze produces a projectile of green goo. Not to mention the pieces of hay that we pick out of our clothes and hair for hours afterwards. Ranching is such a glamorous and romantic lifestyle, you know? 

And although the above diatribe is said mostly tongue-in-cheek, there is more than a little truth to it! -Melanie
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#ranchlife #justranching #dayinthelife #livingourbestlife #womeninagriculture
          Glenn, the girls, and our good friend Joshua Madan Glenn, the girls, and our good friend Joshua Madany went for a ski in the backcountry this past Sunday.

We have a favorite spot about 15 miles out of Salmon. A gravel road remains plowed all the way to a high pass throughout the winter, creating easier backcountry access for local skiers, snowshoers, and snowmobilers. We always go on a  route that requires a short skin up, some nice turns down powder-covered slopes, and then some additional flat tracking to get back to the road. We take two vehicles and leave one at the bottom so we don't have to hike all the way back to the starting point. While the route is well known by those in Salmon who backcountry ski, the trail had not yet been broken this winter.

With current conditions being extremely sketchy, it was best to stick to low-angle treed aspects for any skiing. While avalanche danger is high, it pays to have an abundance of caution. We also carry avy gear like shovels, probes, and beacons for an extra safety measure, despite the mellow nature of the skiing we do.

While we don't get out to explore as much as we'd like during the winter, we try to head out on skins and skis as often as we can. There is something so meditative and beautiful about skiing through a quiet forest. Don't get me wrong, skinning up to good snow is a workout too. The effort gets the lungs pumping and the muscles burning, which makes the ski down seem even more worthwhile. It's one of the best ways to spend a Sunday afternoon! -Melanie
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#backcountryskiing #getoutside #idahoexplored #idahobackcountry #earnyourturns 📷: @linnaea_mae
          Never challenge Glenn to a race of feeding ton hay Never challenge Glenn to a race of feeding ton hay bales, because you'll lose every time.

We've been trying to best him for years, perfecting our technique and strategy. Annie has come the closest in terms of speed and finesse after getting a lot of practice feeding almost every day last winter. But even she still has a few flakes left when he's throwing the last of his bale to the beeves.

Here's Linnaea attempting to end Glenn's winning streak. She was unsuccessful in the end. -Melanie
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#ranchlife #familyfun #competition #familyranch #regenerativeagriculture 📷: @melzingaphoto
          Glenn wrote a great story for our weekly newslette Glenn wrote a great story for our weekly newsletter, which usually goes out on Wednesdays. It went out yesterday due to some technical difficulties on my end, including terribly slow internet connection (we make some tradeoffs to live in this beautiful, remote place) and a hard drive failure. So fun!

In the newsletter, we share exclusive sales and coupons, highlight cuts our customers might be interested in, and keep everyone caught up on what's happening around the ranch! Most weeks, Glenn somehow finds the time to write a true story from his experiences and recollections. Below is an excerpt from "Black Ice In Deep Canyons."

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“Are you OK?” I tried to gain eye contact of the obviously more than a little dazed driver. His jeans were freshly shredded, coat impregnated with the reddish ocher of Salmon River cliff-rock, and had a few fresh and bloody scrapes and bruises on his ruddy complexion. He was aimlessly walking around, staring at his twisted wreck of a Peterbilt semi-truck, jackknifed flatbed trailer, torn asunder from truck, now inches from the brink of a cliff that fell precipitously down to the turbulent icy steel gray waters of a partly frozen river. His face betrayed the obvious trauma he was still experiencing about the whole scene.

He started talking to no-one in particular, under his breath: “These curves…they fool you. You think you know them, and they surprise you.” He looked up from the wreck, and his eyes met mine. “And all of a sudden, everything unravels. And there you are. Truck rips into rock and nearly flips over. I’ve been over this road hundreds of times. And these curves…” His voice trailed off as he continued to eye the wreckage while shaking his head. The truck: totaled. Front tires literally ripped off. Fuel tanks, full, miraculously not leaking, like huge shiny Bud Light cans, next to it on the pavement.

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This story is continued over on our blog, Organic Beef Matters, which can be accessed by clicking through the link in our bio! Don't forget to subscribe to our weekly newsletter too, so you don't miss the occasional coupon or sale and Glenn's stories!
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#salmonrivercountry #salmonriver #riverroad #neighbors #outwest
          I looked through the inherding photo archives toni I looked through the inherding photo archives tonight. The heat and long days of the summer are but a distant memory and I miss the high country. I wish to be up there on the high ridges with a good horse below me, as a breeze blows up from canyon bottoms carrying the scent of sagebrush and hot desert soil.

We can only plan the summer, talking about what the 2021 grazing season might look like. We ask ourselves so many questions, including the biggest unknown of all: should we maybe just take a break and keep the cattle home on the ranch?

Sometimes we forget how far we’ve come and what we’ve learned. So tonight, I went all the way back to 2015, which marked our first year of inherding. That was a rough year. On horses, on dogs, on cattle, and on us. We made so many mistakes and we learned so much in the end. The many failures of that first season informed our future years of inherding.

Remembering back, with the pictures to spark those recollections, I’m surprised we kept going. We were working with a skeleton crew and so we rode so hard with only two or three people to a stint. We had fewer cattle that year, to be fair, but we'd never experienced this type of herding and intensive management.

Thinking on it, I think we would have quit after that first year if it wasn’t for two things: love and curiosity. We love the Hat Creek country, and we love our animals. Maybe love makes people do crazy things, but it also pushes them to persevere. And our curiosity was only piqued after 2015. What would happen to the land and to our cattle if we continued on? We believed that livestock grazing could be reconciled with land management and restoration and we wanted to test our theory.

As it turns out, we still have unanswered questions, though we have seen the positive effects of inherding on the landscape, our stockmanship, and our animals. So we keep coming back to the high country, if not next summer, surely those in the near future. -Melanie
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#outwest #justranching #highcountry #alwayslearning #animalhusbandry #stewardship
          Happy New Year, everyone! During the last thirty Happy New Year, everyone! 

During the last thirty minutes of 2020, one can't help but breathe a sigh of relief. This was a challenging year for everyone, though we are very blessed to have not felt the effects as acutely as some. I grieve for those who have lost loved ones or livelihoods during the last 12 months. We pray that the coming year can be one of hope and peace and joy for us all despite the chaos of the world around us.

Thank you all for your support over the last year. We so appreciate that you follow along with life and work on Alderspring Ranch.

Happy New Year! May 2021 treat us all a little better than 2020 did. -Melanie 
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          This winter, Maddy has been out feeding cattle alm This winter, Maddy has been out feeding cattle almost every afternoon, no matter the weather. Often, she and I team up to feed 5 or 6 tons off the trailer, dividing the tasks of driving the truck and flaking hay to the cattle between us.

I've witnessed a change in Maddy over the last few months. She's always been confident and independent, but lately some of her bravado has been replaced by a quiet maturity and sureness. She knows how to run the air compressor to fill up truck and tractor tires when they get too low in the cold. She handles the feed truck and long flatbed trailer with ease, navigating through tight gates and taking turns wide without reminder. She can feed three tons of hay by herself in a matter of minutes and deftly cuts and pulls baling twine from ton bales. She watches the animals automatically as she works, noting any signs of malaise. If the feed truck didn't require someone to be behind the wheel to drive, Maddy could handle the whole chore of feeding the beeves alone.

She's becoming an adult before my eyes.

It's exciting and also a little sad to witness. She's been the baby of the family for her entire life, always pushing herself to catch up with us. I'm used to telling her what to do, offering her advice whether she wants it or not. But helping her feed this winter, I now realize that we now work as peers and she rarely needs micromanagement. She's got it handled. 

So I've been trying to sit back a bit and watch as she takes charge of a situation, handling it in her own way.. This is a new phase of our sisterly relationship. This is the time in our lives when we we are not only defined by the titles of big sister and little sister, but friends as well. -Melanie
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#sisters #womeninranching #realranchwomen #womeninagriculture #ranchlife #growingupranching
          Wilderness. Someone pointed out that, technically, Wilderness. Someone pointed out that, technically, we do not operate in wilderness. This is true, and we realized that we had been using that term a little too uncritically. Those in the know, especially those of us in the west, understand that Wilderness is a very specific label attached to a piece of ground.

Our mountain range borders on the largest federally designated Wilderness Area in the lower 48 states, the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area.

We often use the term “wild” when describing the country we work in, and we think that the term is appropriate. It conveys the difficulty of access and the complete lack of human impact other than livestock grazing. There is no mining, no logging. Only a few rugged and rocky 4-wheel drive jeep trails, and even those only penetrate about half way into the 70 square miles that we manage as Alderspring Ranch.

It is, as far as we know, the largest contiguous certified organic area in the lower 48 states.

Other than some changes from grazing (which we are reversing with our inherding model of grazing), the Hat Creek Allotment looks much like it did presettlement.

This is why we call our beef wild, and we think it can serve as a model of nutrient-diverse beef production that benefits the land and the people who enjoy the fruit of the land- the beef we steward and produce. This country is not suited to crops. It is a land that for millenia has been grazed. 

We fail, I think, to recognize the value and potential of these rangelands to produce amazing food for people, while restoring the land to abundance and health.

Lost in the discussion of plant-based vs animal-based protein is the fact that 30% of our land area in the United States, 770 million acres, is rangeland or grassland and completely unsuited to crops.

With a vast potential for carbon sequestration...which is another post.

We'll continue to call our beef "wild" because it truly is. -Caryl
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#regenerativeagriculture #regenerativeranching #wildwellness #stewardsoftheland #outwest 📷: @melzingaphoto and @fourkellysfarm
          A few weeks ago, I submitted five of my best photo A few weeks ago, I submitted five of my best photos to the @modernhuntsman Field Outrider creative competition. I never expected anything to come of my submissions; the caliber of the competition and the judges was incredible. I was disbelieving when I saw that my photo of @jeremiah.patchin after a long day harvesting firewood in the fall had made the finalist selection.

Then it was only to wait until first, second, and third place winners were announced in print. The winning photographs and artistic pieces would be published in Modern Huntsman’s Volume 6: Resilience. I obsessively watched the tracking when I received news that my volume had shipped. The unassuming package finally arrived on Christmas Eve, delivered by a hard working FedEx driver on the job late into the night.

The gorgeous publication was in my hands and I began slowly leafing through pages of brilliant photography and art, my pulse pounding in my ears as I held out hope of seeing that one all too familiar photo. Finally, I saw it. The smoky scene of a late afternoon campfire, Jeremiah's thoughtful and soot covered face regarding me from Volume 6. The meaning of my placing (2nd runner up) amidst a field of insanely talented photographers was not lost on me.

The team over at Modern Huntsman has outdone themselves with this beautifully curated, edited and produced masterpiece. The caliber of creativity on every single page is humbling. I've never seen such an eloquent tribute to the people and places and stories of lives lived outdoors. I'll be reading and rereading each page, savoring the beauty of true resilience.

So thank you, @modernhuntsman for this chance for up-and-coming creatives to throw their proverbial hat into the ring. Thank you for carefully considering my work based on creative merit. And thank you for this incredible honor. It was a truly wonderful Christmas gift, and I am so grateful for the opportunity. -Melanie
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#fieldoutrider #creativepursuits #alwayslearning #yourshotphotographer #outwest 📷: @melzingaphoto
          Merry Christmas from our family to yours! Wishing Merry Christmas from our family to yours! Wishing you tidings of comfort and joy in this most wonderful time of the year. -Melanie
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#wewishyouamerrychristmas #merrychristmas #happyholidays #tidingsofcomfortandjoy #joytotheworld
          You know what they say: better late than never! An You know what they say: better late than never! And that most certainly applies to Christmas trees. Our annual foray into the high country to pick out the two most perfect evergreens was a success! -Melanie
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#merrychristmas #happyholidays #tistheseason #womeninranching #familyranch
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