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 photos from getting our christmas tree this past week!
Scroll down for this week’s story:
“Coming Home for Christmas”
This Week’s Store Update & Coupons
NEXT SHIPPING DAY: Monday, January 6th.
We are taking orders, but are closed for shipping the week of New Years.
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 3237 (leaner) and lot 3238 (leaner)
- Regular ground beef
- Extra lean ground round
- Ground brisket
- Leaner ribeye steak
- Leaner New York steak
- Delmonico steak
- Top sirloin steak
- Flatiron steak
- Sirloin flap (blade) steak
- Hanging tender steak
- Tri tip roast
- Rump roast
- Eye of round roast
- Chorizo beef sausage
- Summer sandwich meat
- Beef sticks
- Organic beef bones
- Beef heart
- Beef liver
- Pastured pork liver
- Wild alaskan sockeye salmon
- Raw milk sheep cheese Carmen carrano
- Raw milk sheep cheese pecorino Idaho
- Lifeline organic raw milk cheddar
This week’s coupon cuts
Use the code “TOPSIRLOINSTEAK” to get 10% off top sirloin steaks!
Click the green button below or the green words above to access these cuts!
SPECIAL MENTION
We have gift certificates and greeting cards available to add to any order!
If you have any questions, observations, or comments, just send Kelsey an email at help[at]alderspring[dot]com.
Pictures from Getting our christmas tree this Past week…
The start of our christmas tree getting expedition.
No christmas tree expedition is complete without some sledding!
Have they spotted the perfect tree?
Heading home, kids and christmas tree in tow.
The decorated trees bringing us beauty, light, and joy!
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Quote of the Week
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
– William Blake
This week’s story:
It wasn’t Christmas yet, but it was dang close. The very next day would be Christmas Eve. My buddy Greg and I decided to grab Christmas trees for our families up on the Hat Creek Ranges this year because we both had little kids at home, and it was forecasted to be frigid cold. Normally, we bundle everyone up, drive as far as we can into the peaks, and hike up to find the perfect specimen for our home.
But this year with the cold was a little different. Subzero temps were predicted, and that was another cause for concern: I was still missing two black Angus bulls up in the wild country of Hat Creek. I had to locate them.
The snows already were drifted deep across roadways up on the range, and that method of travel with a vehicle was hopeless. Even horseback, It would be hard on them, because of the sheer distances through deep snow. To get to where the bulls were last seen would be nearly 20 miles one way.
I had called Greg several days before. “Hey, buddy. Do you still have those sleds?” Sleds is what we colloquially called snowmobiles. He had some older models in the backyard on a trailer last I recalled.
“Sure do. And I just went over them, too. Should be good to go.”
So together we hatched our plan, that regardless of weather, we would go hunting—for the quite elusive perfect pair of Christmas trees and black Angus bulls.
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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