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:
“Learning the Lessons from the Buffalo–For Our Bovines”
This Week’s Store Update & Coupons
NEXT SHIPPING DAY: Monday, December 2nd. We will be closed for shipping the week of Thanksgiving.
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 3196 and lot 3212
- Ground beef bundles
- Regular ground beef
- Wild hunter
- Extra lean ground round
- Sirloin tip kabobs
- Leaner ribeye steak
- Leaner New York steak
- Top sirloin steak
- Flank steak
- Top sirloin roast
- Tri tip roast
- Eye of round roast
- Rump roast
- Brisket roast
- Osso buco style beef shank
- Organic beef bones
- Beef tongue
- Beef liver
- Wild alaskan sockeye salmon
- Pastured pork kidney
- Pastured pork heart
- Raw milk sheep cheese Carmen Carrano
- Raw milk sheep cheese Pecorino Idaho
- Lifeline organic raw milk cheddar
- Tallow skincare
This week’s coupon cuts
Use the code “WILDHUNTER” to get 10% off wild hunter.
Use the code “LEANERRIBEYE” to get 10% off leaner ribeye steaks.
Use the code “#4SIXTEENTH” to get 5% off the #4: Grass Fed (not certified organic) Family Box Sixteenth.
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 last night feeding the cow and calf pairs at the Tendoy ranch before they headed back to the home ranch for the winter.
These last few weeks at Tendoy we have been supplementing the herd with some hay in the evenings, while during the day the mama cows and their calves have been finishing up the last of the “on the stem” stockpile grass grown this summer.
Scott’s view from the tractor over the last several days. One of Scott’s fall projects at the Tendoy ranch is drilling a mix of upland grass seed into some of the unirrigated ground above the irrigated fields.
This seed, laid down in furrows by the drill pictured above, will lie dormant all winter, ready to germinate and grow at the first signs of warmth and moisture come spring.
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Quote of the Week
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
– G.K. Chesterton
to read This week’s story click the title below:
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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