1: We Raise Wild Protein on Our Family Ranch
We're Glenn and Caryl Elzinga, and with our seven daughters and a few great crew members, we raise your beef right here on our wild Idaho pastures. With over 23 years of selling great beef, we deliver outstanding taste, quality, and wellness every single time.
2: You Order At Our Online Store
You order your beef with confidence that you're buying from a real rancher who is passionate about producing the best beef you've ever tasted. Select exactly the cuts you want from our varied selection of beef or choose a set-it-and-forget it package.
3: We Deliver to Your Door
Our family packages your order, and Glenn checks every single cut for package integrity and quality. With dry ice to keep the beef cold, it arrives frozen on your doorstep!
4: You Cook Great Meals
Great beef doesn't need complicated techniques or spices, and with our tried and tested beef recipes, you can cook even the most uncommon cuts with confidence and ease.
Food Writer Ian Brown, when tasting our ribeye just after a Japanese wagyu: “The wagyu, however rich, was as good a steak as I have ever eaten. But the grass fed rib-eye is a revelation…The Idaho steak has the middle, the robustness of the wagyu, but without the fattiness; it also tastes, unmistakably, like beef…The complexity of the grass fed steak becomes greater, not less, with each chew.”
-The Globe and Mail, 2010
Celebrated author Mark Schatzker traveled the world looking for the best beef. He found it at Alderspring Ranch.
-Steak: One Man’s Quest for the World’s Tastiest Piece of Beef
Inherding: Alderspring’s Sustainable Approach to Grass Fed
At Alderspring, we are pioneering a new approach we call “Inherding.” With inherding, we graze our cattle over 48,000 unfenced acres of mountain range. The cattle graze a diversity of wild Idaho plants, resulting in beef that is both exceptional tasting and incredibly nutrient-dense. We live with the cows in high mountain cow camps, herding them during the day and bedding them down at night. This enables us to monitor where the cattle are at all times and avoid sensitive areas such as endangered species habitats while returning the ecosystem to what it was when bison roamed these mountains. Click here to learn more about inherding!
What Makes Alderspring Different?
The organic certification is the most inspected and regulated health label there is. It is our guarantee that customers can be sure they're getting a truly exceptional product.
Grass fed health benefits include omega 3 fatty acids, vitamins, and more CLA. We go beyond typical grass fed standards by grazing on diverse wild mountain meadows.
We never use hormones or antibiotics on our cattle. If a cow is sick and needs antibiotics, we treat it humanely but do not sell that beef in our online store.
We never, ever allow GMOs on our ranch. In fact, we do the opposite by grazing on wild and native rangeland grasses.
At Alderspring, we believe we are stewards of our land and animals. Our cattle never see a feedlot, are herded gently and quietly on horseback, and live their entire lives on beautiful green pastures.
You'll find no dirty little secrets here. We value integrity and transparency in our ranching practices, business, and your health.
Meathacker: Cooking Good Meat Right
Whole animal use is becoming trendy, but Alderspring has long been committed to using all of the different cuts of beef an animal produces. For us, whole animal use simply represents values of thrift and honoring what the land and animals we steward produce for us. Our Meathacker recipe website has ideas for all cuts and is searchable by dietary preferences if you have food sensitivities.
Organic Beef Matters: The Alderspring Blog
Our Organic Beef Matters blog is the place to get to know us better, to learn about our innovative conservation efforts on our 46,000 acre certified organic wilderness mountain rangeland (the largest contiguous certified organic area in the U.S.), and to learn why we do what we do to bring you the best beef in the world.