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    Farm Name This Land is Your Land
    Rating (4)          This Land is Your Land
    Location Wilmington, DE
    Products Fluid Milk Products, Goat Cheese and Yogurt
    Market Area Nationwide
    Web Site

    This Land is Your LandThis Land is Your Land consists of a group of organic pioneers, food activist and family farmers who have joined together for the single purpose of providing the very highest quality organic dairy products. Products produced to the same high values and principles of sustainability that the original organic movement was founded on.

    Our focus is on what food can be, not what it isn't.

    This land is Your Land markets only products from family farms and we are teh very first company in the US to guarantee our farmers a "livable wage" through the "Fair Prices for Family Farms" certification. This ensures their future and the future of independent Organic food.

    This Land is Your Land products are exclusively distributed to the Independent Natural Food Retailers and Co-ops across the country.

     

    Criteria Points Comments
    Ownership Structure 60 Privately held
    Milk Supply 90 Own patrons (5-cow rated)
    Disclosure of Information for Verification 100 Full and open disclosure
    Certifier farms 100 Organic Forum/GAO
    Certifier processing 100 Organic Forum/GAO
    Cows on pasture time/acreage provided 100 Fully pasture-based
    Health and longevity of cows 100 Extremely low cull rate!
    Replacement animals only from organic farms 90 Only organic animals (from birth) purchased
    Antibiotics used on young cattle 100 Never
    Reproductive hormones used 100 Never
    Farm support oversight 90 All dairies and visited regularly by staff
    Outside dairy ingredients purchased 100 None
    TOTAL SCORE 1130 FOUR COWS (excellent)