Farm tour began the festivities at P.A. Bowen Farmstead
Hot Weather Doesn’t Matter, FTCLDF is Used to Dealing with the Heat
Earlier this month, we celebrated the anniversary of the wonderful legal defense fund that helps protect small farmers and farm-to-consumer direct sales. The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund has done a world of good for those concerned with the future of our rural economies and the health of our environment. Not to mention, consumer access to nutrient dense foods. Here is a story on the new FTCLDF blog that I wrote about the event:
Celebrating FTCLDF’s Fifth Anniversary on the P.A. Bowen Farmstead
You know, they always say most small businesses don’t make it to the 5 year mark. We are all proud of the mark FTCLDF has made on food politics, and prouder still they are still going after it 5 years later! We know it is because they are all awesome at what they do!
Please see the video slideshow and my photos of the event, below!
See also, an interesting piece by a journalist who attended the FTCLDF Fifth Anniversary event:
Transition Voice: Factory Farming A Communist Plot
Here is a great video that also captures the event. It was produced by Aleesha Haigwood, who works on the farm with her family, Mike and Barb Haigwood, farm manager and cheesemaker. If you weren’t able to attend, after this video and my photo gallery, below, you will feel as though you were with us!
Thank you, Sally and Geoffrey for a spectacular day! We enjoyed so much being with you to honor your work and that of FTCLDF on the occasion of the FTCLDF Fifth Anniversary.
Here is my photo gallery of the event, with some of my favorite pix!
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- Farm tour began the festivities at P.A. Bowen Farmsted
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- Child checks out the meat birds.
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- Watching the hens lay eggs.
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- Mike describes the hen house.
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- Kids learn where meat comes from.
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- Keeping cool below mobile hen house.
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- Pigs just sprayed with a hose.
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- Kids testing the cow brush in milking parlor.
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- Mike Haigwood leading farm tour.
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- Open air milking parlor.
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- Pigs raised on pasture.
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- Sows and Piglets keep cool in shade.
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- David Gumpert, thecompletepatient.com
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- Jersey Cow Dairy Herd
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- P.A.Bowen Farm Store
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- Judy Mudrak, WAPF Chapter Leader
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- Pete Kennedy talks of the victories obtained with the help of FTCLDF supporters.
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- Pete Kennedy speaks to the guests during lunch.
Kimberly Hartke is the publicist for the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Love your blog, by the way. What a great, centralized resource for all real food and local farm info.
Great music with photos
Had a great time there!
Great blog post!
There isn’t a link to click on, to see your Gallery “Please click here to see the video slideshow and my photos of the event!”. I also can’t see the photos near the bottom full view, they won’t load for some reason.
I would love to see them
Aleesha, all the photos are showing, the blank spaces are just a formatting issue that I couldn’t figure out. I took out the reference to click here and just put see below. Sorry for the confusion.
I like your blog. You put a nice twist to it. Nice work Kimberly.
I like your blog. Two things I like about the post, one it is straight forward and two it does not attempt to promote anyone’s position particularly.