Welcome to Alderspring’s Weekend Newsletter. Thank you for partnering with us in what we do!
This Week’s Story: Goats in the Living Room, Calves in the Bathtub
Tomorrow we’re hoping to trail our cowherd up onto the high ranges. I was going through the archives of some of our oldest journal and story entries and I found this one. It was quite a contrast to how we live today. Our cows calve now in the late spring or early summer. That means we no longer have calves, goats and all sorts of other animals being birthed in the the freezing cold…..
Store News
Next Shipping Date: Monday, May 4th
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, May 6th
We restock every Wednesday and send out a sale flyer on Wednesday in the early evening with the week’s deals.
New to Our Shelves!
We have some new products on the store shelves: Amaltheia organic goat cheese and grass fed beef and pastured pork andouille sausage!
This Week’s Reader-Only Deals
Use the code “BEEFSAUSAGE” to get 10% off organic grass fed regenerative bratwursts, hot Italian sausage, and summer sandwich meat!
Use the code “10FOR10LAMB” to get 10% off grass fed ground lamb when you buy 10 lbs!
To access these sale items, and for more deals and products, you can click the button below!
Ranch News
The Deuce-and-a-half, “Camo” delivers water to the remote range for the cows to drink. The old Army veteran proves tougher than the dirt and rock it drives on. Border Collie Clyde can be seen, ready to drive forward as he looks through the steering wheel. Photo by Glenn.
Here’s how it works: 2 big tanks pack 2300 gallons of water to just gravity fill 800 gallon stock tanks. Clyde barks instructions. Photo by Glenn.
Clyde and I run the 1974 jeep for ease of traveling on the sketch mountain roads. Photo by Glenn.
Cowboy Jed runs Red…another army truck made into a fire engine, now an Alderspring water tanker. Photo by Glenn.
After the beautiful spring snows, the tiny short- leaved phlox carpets much of the ranges, looking like the snow-dappled landscape that once was. Photo by Glenn.
That’s a pretty manure dappled field beyond me. See the next pic about how it can look like in just a few weeks. Photo by Caryl.
That’s me 50 feet away from the last pic across a temporary fence. Just a few weeks ago, there was more manure than in the previous picture. Did we just harrow all the manure away? No. Nature kindly disposed of all the poop. Beetles, worms and all sorts of bugs and microbes pulled it deep into the soil. This never used to happen when our soils didn’t have the biotic power they do today! Photo by Caryl.
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I was raised a Seventh-Day Adventist vegetarian. Many, many years. But something didn’t feel (taste?) right with guilt as my companion seasoning occasionally eating meat. The logic and reasoning of Glenn’s commentary and Caryl’s photos of manure regenerating the land is the fact that eventually convinced me what humans ate mattered to maintain harmony of the whole Earth macrocosm. (The human being the microcosm).
The Animal Kingdom notches just below the Human Kingdom. Death and rebirth is one duality of natural law on the material plane. Another is humans have to eat nutritious food to maintain their physical/etherial/astral bodies so they can further develop spiritually.
Angels don’t eat food but live on heavenly Light. But humans aren’t there (yet). Much gratitude to both animals and the land to keep all these natural cycles relevant per the Divine Plan. Cheers.