Scroll down for Glenn’s weekly story and updates from the ranch this week!

A QUICK SUMMARY OF THIS WEEK’S FEATURED CUTS:

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This week on the ranch…

This week, a convoy crew brought all the mama cows back to the home ranch from the Lemhi ranch. It’s a little over an hour journey for them, and we kept it as quick and efficient as possible. It was nice to see them unloading slowly and quietly when we got them to pasture at the home ranch. That’s usually a pretty good sign they were comfortable, not stressed out or overcrowded. Montana took this photo Wednesday morning warming up the trucks at the home ranch.

Here you can see these mama cows settled in at the home ranch. Some of gals will be calving this month, though the majority are scheduled to calve in May and June. Though we had a few surprises this winter, late spring is our target for calving. It’s makes for better calving for everyone when the grass is green and the nighttime temperatures aren’t below freezing.

Melanie took this series of photos this week while looking over horses and feeding cattle. Springtime feels a little more official with these evening storms moving through the valley just as the sun starts to make its descent.

There’s Linnaea, feeding a couple of the horses that we have in the corrals right now. Hard to believe in just a few short weeks summer will be in full swing and we’ll be moving the yearlings up onto the range. With summer, more interns will arrive to ride the range and learn about life on the ranch.

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Quote of the Week

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
— John Steinbeck

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Dear Friends

It’s nearly mid-April, and winter is still pretty much intact on the ranch. It’s all good, though, as we are seeing a wonderful deposition of moisture on the ranch. The ground is just barely beginning to give up its permafrost characteristics, and on the John Deere backhoe yesterday, I found the digging pretty good as I performed some ditch maintenance.

It reminded me of a time a few years back when Colin (then Alderspring employee) and I were nearly 7 feet down in a hole fixing a waterline in mid-April. And what we deep in the soil intrigued us. I had long thought that deep soil was simply a dead zone, but the fact of the matter was that even 7 feet down, we found earthworms.

It’s still exciting for me today, because it shatters the belief system that all the organic matter is up in the upper few inches of soil. When I discovered the worms doing the down and dirty work they do, I realized that they, along with plant roots are able to put tremendous amounts of organic matter–in other words, carbon–deep down underground, safe for millennia.

In these days of climate woes and carbon concerns, the lowly life of worm may help save the planet. Who knew? To see the video and realize some more fun facts about worms, check out the post below!!

Happy Trails, friends.

Glenn

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And that’s it for this week!

Thanks again for partnering in what we do!

Glenn, Caryl, cowgirls and cowboys at Alderspring.

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