This article is based on Cornucopia’s forthcoming yogurt report and scorecard. Find both later this spring on our website. Yogurt, made the traditional way, is one of nature’s many health foods. Milk from organic grass-fed cows, rich in calcium, protein, beneficial fats and other healthy nutrients, is fermented using live cultures, resulting in a wholesome,… Read more »
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The Next Generation of Farmers is Going Organic
Watertown Daily Times (NY) By Amanda Purcell HAMMOND — Elizabeth S. and Brian J. Bawden are full-time organic dairy farmers who are inspiring their son, Nathan E., to follow in their footsteps. When Nathan, 16, was a baby, the couple made sure to buy an old cab tractor with a backseat. Together, they plowed fields… Read more »
Dairy Farmer Acquitted on Three of Four Charges
Raw milk trial Milwaukee Journal Sentinel By Rick Barrett Baraboo — Dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger was acquitted on three of four criminal charges early Saturday morning in a trial that’s drawn national attention from supporters of the raw, unpasteurized milk movement. Jurors in Sauk County District Court deliberated about four hours, until nearly 1 a.m…. Read more »
Farmers Face Tough Choice On Ways To Fight New Strains Of Weeds
NPR by Dan Charles Listen to the audio story. OK, so this story is about weeds and weedkillers, neither of which is ever the hero of a story, but stay with me for a second: It’s also about plants with superpowers. Unless you grow cotton, corn or soybeans for a living, it’s hard to appreciate… Read more »
Vegetables As a Way of Life
The Esalen Institute is known for personal growth and social change. Its Farm and Garden advances those goals through connection to food and the soil. Los Angeles Times By Caitlin Keller Special to the Los Angeles Times Reporting from Big Sur—— Morning fog weaves its way through colorful rows of vegetables, herbs and flowers as… Read more »
Free trade: As U.S. corn flows south, Mexicans stop farming
McClatchy Washington Bureau Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers SAN JERONIMO SOLOLA, Mexico — Look around the rain-fed corn farms in Oaxaca state, and in vast areas of Mexico, and one sees few young men, just elderly people and single mothers. “The men have gone to the United States,” explained Abel Santiago Duran, a 56-year-old municipal… Read more »
A Look Inside the ‘Raw’ Milk Underground
Nicole Bode visits an unpasteurized milk club. DNAinfo By Nicole Bode MANHATTAN — It didn’t look like a batch of groceries that could get someone in trouble. I inspected the cardboard box full of two half-gallons of milk, two cartons of eggs and a white plastic bag with some chicken livers inside. All of the… Read more »
5 Myths about hunger in America
Washington Post By Robert Egger No one goes hungry in America. 1. Hunger is supposed to happen in other places – in distant countries where droughts or storms or famine compel us to donate money and oblige our government to send relief workers and food aid. In reality, hunger also hits much closer to home…. Read more »
Goelz Farm: Going Organic
A Maple Lake family transitions to organic dairy farming in hope of a steady income Minneapolis Star Tribune By Emma L. Carew The sprawling 412-acre Goelz farm of Maple Lake, Minn., has been largely unchanged over the past century. Every morning, Adam Goelz’s daughters help him hook up their 48 cows to milking machines, which… Read more »
Update on Almond Pasteurization
USDA weighing compromise proposal In late November, Cornucopia staff arranged a meeting with USDA Undersecretary Bruce Knight to discuss concerns and problems with the now-implemented mandate requiring pasteurization of all raw almonds grown by domestic producers for sale in the U.S. For more than an hour, Cornucopia’s two codirectors met in Washington, DC with three… Read more »
