Dear Friends and Partners,
Welcome to Alderspring’s weekend edition newsletter! Thank you for partnering in what we do!
Below you can find beef discounts, Glenn’s weekly story, and lots of photos from the ranch!
Scroll down for this week’s story:
“War Comes to Idaho”
This Week’s Store Update & Coupons
NEXT SHIPPING DAY: Monday, October 21st
What’s In Stock
Beef was restocked earlier this week. Unfortunately, many cuts have already sold out, but we still have:
- Sixteenths
- Quarter beef: lot 3195, lot 3196, and lot 3197
- Ground beef bundles
- Leaner ribeye steak
- Beef garlic sausage
- Beef chorizo sausage
- Organic beef bones
- Grass fed beef bones
- Beef tongue
- Pastured pork smoked ham
- Pastured pork chops
- Pastured ground pork
- Pastured pork breakfast sausage
- Pastured pork Italian sausage
- Pastured pork smoked ham hock
- Pastured pork shoulder roast
- Pastured pork liver
- Pastured pork kidney
- Pastured pork heart
- Lamb German rosemary sausage
- Lamb loin chops
- Lamb sirloin
- Leg of lamb
- Lamb kidney
- Rack of lamb
- Lamb bones
- Lamb baby back ribs
- Raw milk sheep cheese Pecorino Idaho
- Lifeline organic pastured butter
- Lifeline organic mozzarella cheese
- Lifeline organic raw milk cheddar
- Tallow lotion
This week’s coupon cuts
Use the code “ALLSIXTEENTHS” to get 5% off all sixteenths in stock.
Use the code “GROUNDBUNDLE” to get 5% off ground beef bundles.
Click the green button below or the green words above to access these cuts!
Special Mention:
New quarter beeves are available! To see the individual information and history of each beef click here, here, or here.
If you have any questions, observations, or comments, just send Kelsey an email at help[at]alderspring[dot]com.
Pictures from the ranch this week…

We try to run the pivots as long as we can to set our plant populations up well for the next season, but that means we have to be cognizant of oncoming freezing weather. At the Tendoy ranch the first hard freeze of the season happened Thursday night. Most of the day before was spent winterizing the irrigation systems. A large part of that process is making sure that any remaining water is drained out of the pivots.

Most of the irrigation water for the Tendoy ranch comes out of the Lemhi River. This headgate, located a few miles from the ranch, diverts water from the river into a ditch that eventually terminates at the ranch. Scott is partially closing the headgate to limit water flow into the ditch as the ranches water needs decrease.

The Lemhi river has a significant fish population, and inevitably some of the fish would end up in the ditches. To keep the fish in their proper river ecosystem fish screens are installed on every ditch a short ways from the headgates. The large, self-cleaning drum screens act as a barrier to the fish while allowing a steady flow of water down the ditch.

The winterizing was just in time!
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Quote of the Week
“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.“
– Nova S. Blair

This week’s story: “War Comes to Idaho”
Dear Friends
Caryl and I are on a much needed break, camped out for a week along the banks of the Salmon River. We’ve even been out of cell service for a few days; the capable ranch crew was happily on their own.
We enjoyed a few days of unseasonable warmth, and even got to spot comet Atlas (pictured below) from our camp, accompanied by the harvest moon.Â

The next day, we climbed on foot a few miles up into the rugged Sawtooth range; the bright yellow of fall colors was nearly spent; the tarnished gold coins of most aspen leaves were already on the ground. It was one of those walks where one can just tread in the profound silence of autumn with an occasional a rustle of wet leaves afoot. Most of the songbirds had left, and the quiet day was nearly windless as a cloak of close gray mist enveloped the gray granite of the foreboding vertical walls of the peaks before us.
We felt that this one day marked the end of fall, at least at this high subalpine elevation. It seemed as though the woods and meadows fell into the slumber of complete dormancy in just a few hours.
Nature knew. We could feel it too. Winter would come.Â
By the time we got back to our riverbank camp, it was snowing. First the flurries came; then, thicker flakes came in earnest. It was time to journey down to a new camp downriver and get down from the cold (an added benefit was that there’d be hot springs to soak in for much of our stay). By morning, it looked as though the peaks had a solid foot of white in them.Â
Today, as I looked up from our hot springs camp toward the closest blanket of white on those high ramparts, I could see the very spot where a bomber crashed into the mountainside as winter settled in these same peaks many years ago. Come with me back to that time when the wild mountain country around us was just being discovered, and how several men had all their mettle tested to survive the rugged outback in which we live.
Happy Trails
And that’s it for this week!
Thanks again for partnering in what we do!
Glenn, Caryl, cowgirls and cowboys at Alderspring.

We’ve been crafting our pastured protein here in Idaho’s Rocky Mountains for nearly 30 years and delivering it direct to our partners for nearly as long. This is wild wellness, delivered from our ranch to your door.
Why is Inventory Low Lately?
Here’s where we’re at on the “low inventory” situation…and why it’s low in the first place! We know many of you have been with us for a long time and rely on us as your source of protein (and we’re so grateful)!
In the last few months, we’ve been hit by a lot of unexpected demand.
When it comes to raising beef, changes in demand can be very difficult to respond to quickly. It takes us 2-3 years to raise an animal to finish. That means we plan our inventory needs about 2 years in advance.
Many companies and producers we know of that sell direct-to-consumer respond to sudden increases in demand by buying outside cattle (often at sale barn auctions) and then selling that beef under their label. This is VERY common.
But this kind of “cow flipping” isn’t something we’re willing to do.
We know the entire history of every beef we sell. That’s important to us, and we know it’s important to you and part of why you trust us to raise your beef.
We’re working right now to gradually increase our available inventory to hopefully provide more beef! But at a certain point, we actually can’t expand further without compromising our standards.
We know that the reason many of you order from us is because we’re small scale. We butcher our cattle at a small processor that only does about 80 head of cattle per week (compared to thousands at a big facility). This also limits our capacity to expand, because they, too, are functioning at capacity right now. We also raise only as many cattle as our pastures can support without degrading our soils. And we’re still small enough that Glenn personally looks at every single steak before he puts it in your box to ship to you. These factors are why you order from us! But it also means occasional inventory limitations.
Your partnership with alderspring directly supports our mission to improve soil health, wildlife habitat, and animal and human wellness through regenerative ranching practices.
Here’s what we’ve accomplished with your help & support in just the last 12 years!





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