Alderspring Ranch has been home to goats for quite while, ever since Dad decided that goat milk would be a good thing to add to our diet. We went to look at two black Nubian goats and after we were hauling them back in the trailer, my sister and I began to negotiate with Dad […]
Goats Again
My oldest daughter just posted a bit about the newest additions to the Alderspring menagerie. I returned from a town day to find 2 baby goats in my laundry room. It seems every year I have to share my house for a few days with some goat kids in a box. They are pretty cute […]
Christmas Beef Brisket at Alderspring
Christmas Dinner. Just those words evoke images of red and green table cloths, sparkling china (the best) and candles amidst greenery at the centerpiece. Maybe a turkey, ham or prime rib roast with all the trimmings as the main course. What about on Alderspring? This year we had Christmas dinner at our older friends, Gordon […]
The Wild Mustang: Part 1
Since my mom is a botanist, she gets contracts from the BLM to find, identify and document rare plants. This year, she got a job looking for a few species along a creek and a road. Its official name was Road Creek. That was the name on the signs. I went with her on a […]
Christmas at Alderspring
Hope you all had a wonderful Holiday season, however you celebrate it. We celebrate a pretty traditional Christmas here on Alderspring. It starts with the tree, about a week before Christmas Day. We get ours high up in the mountain forests that surround our remote valley. We just drive up one of the canyons […]
The Great Hotwire Stampede
During the summer, Alderspring beef cattle graze on green pasture. The yearlings and two-year-olds bound for the online market stay home on the ranch. Once the mother cows have “calved out”, we turn them out on the range. When the grass is growing two inches a minute during the hot months, the cattle are moved […]