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:
“The Last Pair”
This Week’s Store Update & Coupons
NEXT SHIPPING DAY: Monday, November 4th
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 3212, lot 3208 and lot 3207
- Ground beef bundles
- Osso buco style shank
- Organic beef bones
- Beef tongue
- Chorizo sausage
- Garlic sausage
- Kielbasa sausage
- Wild alaskan sockeye salmon
- Pastured pork chops
- Pastured pork liver
- Pastured pork kidney
- Pastured pork heart
- Pastured pork fat
- Lamb loin chops
- Lamb sirloin
- Lamb baby back ribs
- Lamb bones
- Raw milk sheep cheese Pecorino Idaho
- Lifeline organic raw milk cheddar
- Tallow lotion
This week’s coupon cuts
It’s Stock-Up Saturday and Sunday! Shop the discounts below to fill up your freezer!
Use the code “GROUNDBUNDLE” to get 10% off ground beef bundles.
Use the code “#2SIXTEENTH” to get 5% off #2 sixteenths with shoulder tender, flat iron, and sirloin steaks.
Use the code “SAUSAGE” to get 10% off chorizo, kielbasa, and garlic sausage.
Use the code “ORGANMEAT” to get 10% off beef tongue, pork liver, pork kidney, and pork heart.
Also, checkout our quarter beef offerings for a one-click way to completely fill your freezer! Quarter beef has the discount already built into the pricing, no discount code needed. It can provide a savings of 50% off a la carte prices on the webstore. To see the quarters available and each beeves individual history click here, here, and here.
Click the green button below or the green words above to access these cuts!
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…
The prep for winter continues! Here Justice was picking up handline and storing it for the winter. Photo credit Rose Morris.
Webb cleaned out and winterized the pivots with a little assist and lift from the backhoe. Photo credit Webb Johnson.
Webb and Annie hauled the John Deere tractor out to the Tendoy ranch this week, as it is needed to start supplementing the herd’s feed with hay. Photo credit Webb Johnson.
Clinton and Josh cut jacks to build a new fence and gate. Fall and winter provide ample opportunity to catch up on the tasks (like fence construction) that are hard to squeeze into the busy summer season. Photo credit Josh Whitling.
And the pups continue to grow by leaps and bounds! Photo credit Rose Morris.
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Quote of the Week
“In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures.”
– Cynthia Rylant
This week’s story: “The last Pair”
Dear Friends
This week’s story is from Abigail Kelly, our daughter, about growing up on the first Alderspring Ranch. Abby and her husband Ethan grow our pastured pork that’s in the webstore, and Abby is the current herdswoman for all of our home ranch cow calf pairs.
The story that follows takes place about 25 years ago on the first Alderspring where all 7 daughters were born. The older ones learned how to ride on that ranch, and grew as the herd grew and expanded.
Early Alderspring was a hardscrabble existence; we had spent all we had on cattle, land, horses and equipment, and everything was on the cheap. Housing was pretty rough, old, drafty and leaky, but we were happy and warm. We always had plenty to eat between elk, venison, beef and huge gardens where we gathered scores of canning jars of food for the winter.
When I ask the kids about it, they always remember the good things. And that’s the way it should be. But there were a few times they remembered when it was hard–especially when I asked them to do the horseback work that even most adults wouldn’t possibly be able to handle.
Sometimes we talk about it, and I have regrets. But they have none. In fact, they’ll thank me for those times. This is one of those…
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!
More information about our regenerative practices and outcomes can be found at the button below.
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