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This Week’s Story: The Days are Short, the Time is Long

This week’s story is from Abby, our second oldest daughter. She is a lover of plants and nurturing, of comfort and caring.

You first notice the color change. Lush greens are fading to brown, the green color trickling down out of the tops of the grass and down into the roots. You can still see green, if you walk around and pick up a handful of grass, a bouquet mix of orchard grass, clover, alfalfa, sainfoin, and bluegrass. Looking out across the pasture, the grass is bent over, wind tousled, like a toddler’s hair. I know. I have a toddler…..

Store News

Next Shipping Date: Monday, October 6th

We generally ship every Monday, holiday weeks excepting (see calendar). You’ll get a tracking number when we ship your order. UPS may initially show an extra day of transit time, but will correct late Monday night when orders hit the Salt Lake hub.

Next Restock Date: Wednesday, October 9th

We restock every Wednesday and send out a sale flyer on Wednesday in the early evening with the week’s deals.

This Week’s Reader-Only Deals

Use the code “SPECIALTYGRINDS” to get 10% off organic grass fed regenerative extra lean ground steer.

Use the code “GROUNDLAMB” to get 5% off grass fed (non-certified) fattier ground lamb.

Use the code “BEEFSAUSAGE” to get 5% off organic grass fed regenerative garlic sausage and organic grass fed regenerative hot Italian sausage.

Use the code “#5SIXTEENTH” to get 5% off grass fed regenerative (non-certified) #5: family box sixteenths (top sirloin).

To access these sale items, and for more deals and products, you can click the button below!

Ranch News

That sheep band is growing! Our humble herd of 30 sheep from last year has grown significantly this summer! Ethan and Abby, who are the shepherds of this flock, said that the lambs look really good, and now are almost as large as their mothers after being born this spring! Photo credit Rose Morris.

Ella starts the herd out in the cool of early morning light on the shoulder of Iron Mountain. Photo credit Melanie Elzinga.

Justin comes to us from Texas A&M, and here rides herd in the upper Hat Creek country. Photo credit Melanie Elzinga.

Jed came to us from Kansas, and here brings the herd out of Trapper springs. Photo credit Melanie Elzinga.

The colors are coming to the High Country, especially in the aspen. Glenn shot this view of upper Trail Creek this week.

This is a view of Alderspring headquarters in the high Pahsimeroi Valley.  The main ranch house is on the left and the bunkhouse, barn and ranch buildings are on the right. Grouse Creek Mountain, behind the ranch, rises to over 11,000 ft. In another week or two it will almost certainly be mantled with snow that will last until next summer. Photo credit Glenn Elzinga.

Space…the final frontier! And it’s finally being realized in Alderspring’s new fulfillment warehouse! It’s more space than we know what to do with right now, but it’s allowed us to almost triple our freezer space (that’s the white structure on the left), and give us plenty of room to spread out with our systematic packing system that eventually leads your orders on a conveyor to a waiting UPS truck. Photo credit Glenn Elzinga.

It’s the green grass of the home ranch, and it’s especially a great contrast to the dry desert ranges that surround our lush valley. It’s here where our cattle come off the range absolutely prepared nutritionally by the incredible diversity on the high and wild ranges. They hit these wonderful lush pasture grasses that we curated for much of the summer just in preparation for their return. The beeves gain fantastic weight in the fall on this grass, laying up fat deposition that results in fine marbling. The grass creates heart healthy fats that perform not only well for the cattle, but also for your table. Photo credit Glenn Elzinga.

It’s not every day that most of the Alderspring Elzinga daughters can gather together (oldest daughter Melanie was visiting a friend in Kansas). Caryl grabbed this shot of most of us at a picnic a couple weeks ago, where everybody cleaned up quite nicely. So many of you newsletter readers have watched our kids grow up, so I thought you’d like to see what they’re turning into; I’ve got to say, I’m pretty proud of them.  -Glenn

Photo credit Caryl Elzinga.

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