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 Wild Ones”
This Week’s Store Update & Coupons
NEXT SHIPPING DAY: Monday, November 11th
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 3208 and lot 3209
- Ground beef bundles
- Ground beef
- Ribeye steak
- Leaner ribeye steak
- Leaner New York steak
- Top sirloin steak
- Flatiron steak
- Tri tip roast
- Eye of round roast
- Top sirloin roast
- Organic beef bones
- Beef tongue
- Beef heart
- Beef sticks
- Chorizo sausage
- Garlic sausage
- Wild alaskan sockeye salmon
- Pastured pork chops
- Pastured pork breakfast sausage
- Pastured pork liver
- Pastured pork kidney
- Pastured pork heart
- Pastured pork fat
- Lamb loin chops
- Lamb German rosemary sausage
- Lamb baby back ribs
- Lifeline organic raw milk cheddar
- Tallow lotion
This week’s coupon cuts
Use the code “SALMON” to get 5% off wild alaskan sockeye salmon.
Use the code “FAMILYBOX” to get 5% off #5 top sirloin family box.
Use the code “FATTIERGROUND” to get 10% off fattier ground beef.
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, 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…
On Thursday a crew from the ranch headed into the mountains to spend the day cutting firewood.
They drove to a mountaintop area that had burned in 2018, resulting in many dead trees to harvest. Roads were snowy, chains required.
They took the majority of the wood in 30ft lengths. A few they cut to smaller 8ft length to fit in front of the tractor on the trailer.
They were out well past dark, but arrived home with trailers stacked high with wood, ready to feed the home fires in the coming winter months.
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Quote of the Week
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
This week’s story:
“The Wild Ones”
Dear friends.
It’s getting to be that time of year when the leaves slick from gold to brown and the trees transition into gray skeletons. Snow starts creeping down from the highest peaks as winter begins its silent takeover, and all of us eventually must yield.
We start to see change even along the highways in the byways. Animals come down from the high country, and forgotten residents make themselves known. The big herds of elk bask in the warmth of the Lower Canyon along the Salmon River, as do the bighorn sheep and mule deer. During day time, they drift upward onto the south facing hills where they take in the gift of what little solar radiation the day offers.
Some don’t fare so well in the cold, but in wild-life, where some don’t fare well others, see advantage. Abby recalls where she got to meet one of those “others”… up close and personal.
Read on to journey with her up the Salmon River corridor on one of those austere winter days….
Happy Trails
Glenn
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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