Perfect Cake for a Springtime Wedding
Welcome back to another real food Weekend Gourmet blog carnival! This is the time each week to dig deep into your family favorite recipe box and share with others the joys of cooking with local, whole food ingredients! Read More
Clover, All Dressed Up for Her Birthday
Aww, Springtime at a lamb farm! We spent our Saturday at the Fields of Athenry lamb farm in Purcellville, Virginia. What a beautiful day! The farm celebrated dog Clover’s birthday with a fun St. Patrick’s Day party!
Tomorrow, I will share more photos from the event!
Bloggers, please share your whole and natural food recipes in this week’s carnival. Please remember to tell us a little bit about the recipe or yourself in the comments, and link back to this post from your blog.
Readers are welcome to post links to their favorite online recipes in the comments!
Kimberly Hartke is a realfoodmedia.com blogger.
Goat and Calves on a Pennsylvania Raw Dairy Farm
A California M.D. specializing in children’s health, speaks out boldly, in favor of raw milk and its benefits for her young patients. This video was taken last fall, during the theatrical screening of the food documentary, Farmageddon in San Francisco. It is a significant conversation, led by filmmaker, Kristin Canty, amongst California experts on the health and nutritional value of farm fresh milk. The panel discussion takes place in a state where raw milk is available in retail stores! Check this out, and consider sharing it with your peers who have questions about local farm milk. Read More
Official Movie Poster
The 20th Anniversary of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital kicks off today, and the organizers have prepared a feast for your eyes. If you are looking for some celluloid to digest this month, try taking in some of the food flicks being dished up by filmmakers from around the world. There are two world premieres and a number of other delicious offerings. Read More
photo credit: QUOI Media
Don’t you just love Spring? My husband and I are spending our free time decluttering, pitching, donating. We are definitely clearing the way for a brighter tomorrow.
This weekend, I attended the Les Dames d’ Escoffier Celebration of Food Conference. At the expo, I scored a box of old cookbooks, which I am eagerly skimming through, looking for ideas for traditional recipes. A New York Times cookbook with recipes from 1950-1960, sings the praises of lard for making a flaky pie crust! It is fascinating seeing recipes for sheeps head, pigs head. These are foods totally foreign to the modern mind, but a mere 60 years ago, they were printed in the New York Times! Read More
Jenny Delonay Speaking to Supporters of Small Farm Agriculture
Photo Credit: Michelle Voss
This is a speech given by a Wisconsin mother, at the March 2, 2012 signing of a Food Declaration of Independence. Hundreds of citizens were present on this occasion, to rally behind a farmer who is standing up for our human rights to consume foods of our choice.
Hi! My name is Jenny. Several years ago our family was looking for local raw dairy from healthy animals that graze on nutrient rich soil. However, we had a dilemma. We live in a city and can not keep dairy animals at our house. So we contracted with Grazin Acres and Vernon Hershberger to care for our animals. This private contract between farmer and member owners has been a very satisfying way for our family to enjoy the benefits of animal ownership and access high quality food.
My contract with Grazin Acres is perfectly legal under current WI law. Government regulations do not apply because I am not engaging in commerce. I am the owner of the animals. This also means that regulatory agencies such as the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) have no jurisdiction over any of the food that I receive from my animals. Yet, these truths have not prevented DATCP from pressing criminal charges against Vernon Hershberger. Read More
Kelly West and her family
This is the text of a speech given on Friday, March 2, 2012 at the occasion of the court hearing of a Wisconsin farmer and food freedom advocate, Vernon Hershberger.
Good morning. My name is Kelly West and I am a member of Vernon’s private food club. I have three young children and, like every mother, I want the best nutrition for them. Through my own research, I have come to the conclusion, like millions of others, that unpasteurized milk from healthy cows is a nutrient-dense high quality food.
And yet . . . in the state of Wisconsin selling this unprocessed, fresh food is a crime! We Wisconsinites need to live up to our legacy as America’s dairy state. This current prosecution of Vernon is a national embarrassment and an insult to our heritage.
Over the last several years the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection has spent a lot of time and taxpayer money to investigate, harass and raid a small Amish farmer who is taking care of animals for local families. This huge waste of taxpayer time and money culminated in the state of Wisconsin filing a criminal complaint against Vernon on December 6th, 2011. Read More
Vernon Hershberger, Max Kane, and Liz Reitzig Stand for Food Freedom
Photo Credit: Dave Gumpert
by Kimberly Hartke
On March 2, 2012, 300 supporters of the right to choose healthy food, signed a Declaration of Food Independence on the courthouse steps in the tiny town of Baraboo, Wisconsin. According to Liz Reitzig, organizer of the peaceful rally in defense of personal liberties, “Lines and lines of people were eager to sign the food freedom declaration. By the end, signatures were between the lines, in the margins, every where on the document.” Read More
photo credit: doug_wertman
Hope Springs Eternal. Spring is poking it’s beautiful head up and bringing with it some much needed cheer. As we prepare for Spring Cleaning, let’s share recipes in our Weekend Gourmet blog carnival.
We are looking for locally sourced ingredients, farm fresh foods, and made from scratch recipes. Whether complicated or super easy, we want recipes that will bring families back to their traditional diets.
Enough with the packaged, processed, chemical laden foods of modern industry. We bloggers want to support human industry of a small farm scale. Local, free enterprise is essential to liberty, as well as radiant health. Read More
Cookies and Raw Milk Enjoyed by a Polite Little Protester
Reprinted with permission of the author from Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau
All dairy products are not created equal. Today’s milk, cheeses, and other dairy products are radically different in nutritional value and chemical composition than they were fifty years ago. American dairy products are also vastly different than dairy products in other countries. Have you ever noticed that butter from France tastes different from butter from America? Have you noticed that the same kind of cheese tastes different depending on what part of the country or world in which it was produced?
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