Alderspring Organic Grass Fed Beef Newsletter 11-29-24 - Alderspring Ranch Organic Grass Fed Beef

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:

“Full Curl Ramming on Highway 93”

This Week’s Store Update & Coupons

NEXT SHIPPING DAY: Monday, December 2nd.

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, lot 3212, lot 3225, lot 3222, lot 3241, lot 3237 (leaner), and lot 3238 (leaner)
Ground beef bundles
Regular ground beef
Wild hunter
Extra lean ground round
Leaner ribeye steak
Leaner New York steak
Top sirloin roast
Eye of round roast
Tenderloin roast
Summer sausage
Summer sandwich meat
Beef sticks
Organic beef bones
Beef tongue
Wild alaskan sockeye salmon
Pastured pork kidney
Pastured pork heart
Lifeline organic raw milk cheddar
Tallow skincare

This week’s coupon cuts

Use the code “SUMMERSAUSAGE” to get 10% off summer sausage and summer sandwich meat.

Use the code “LEANERQUARTERS” to get 5% off leaner quarter beef lot 3237 and leaner quarter beef lot 3238

Click the green button below or the green words above to access these cuts!

SPECIAL MENTION

Check our our holiday gift guide!

We have gift certificates and Christmas/greeting cards available to add to any order!

Get this week’s cuts + more 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…

Emily’s car bit the dust a few weeks ago. She’s been working in Brookings, SD for the last few months and she had no way to make it home to spend the holidays with us. Annie and I decided to make the drive out to pick her up, because it meant some quality time together as sisters. As we all grow up and make our own lives, those opportunities are fewer and farther between, and we’re learning not to pass them up when they do come along. -Melanie

Last weekend our puppy Odin ran away from our yard at Tendoy. We searched for him high and low for two days to no avail. We were heartbroken. Unbeknownst to us at the time, a lady a mile up the creek found this little guy the morning he ran off, and took care of him for two days. She finally was able to track us down and reunite us with our pup. We are so thankful for good neighbors! -Scott and Rebecca

Titus, the guardian of the Tendoy ranch.

Helping daddy (Scott) pick up hotwire fence.

Winter is starting to make its presence felt! Photo credit Josh Whitling.

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Quote of the Week

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”

– Edith Sitwell

This week’s story:

“Full Curl Ramming on Highway 93”

Dear Friends

Today, as I cruised through the umpteenth curve on US Highway 93 between Challis and Salmon, Idaho, I saw border collie Clyde’s ears perk up. He saw them before I did; as I started braking, a line of about thirty-five bighorn sheep were single-filing across the highway in front of us.

Ewes and their young trotted across the road and literally ran up a near vertical roadcut on the right side of the road. Clyde was absolutely glued to the windshield as they made their way from one side to the other.

As a ram came on to the pavement, I smiled at the memory of a few years back when a much larger big-horned ram decided to stop, and crossed not only the yellow line, but right into the world of human commerce.

If you’d like to see how a wild sheep became king one day in that river canyon, read on!

Click here to read more of this week’s story: “Full Curl Ramming on Highway 93”

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.