Tag Archives: save family farms

How to Respond to a Farm Raid

Food Politics | October 26, 2010

Mark McAfee has effectively won battles against the establishment, by working with the media, holding rallies and asking for help from celebrities. He wants farmers to lead their consumers and get media savvy.

Posted in Food Politics | Also tagged FDA, food safety, raw cheese, Raw Milk, small farms | 16 Comments

Parade Magazine Heralds Return of the Milkman

Food Tradition | October 15, 2010

Conventional milkmen in New York State, find their way back to a family tradition, home milk delivery. Expanding to other products they now call their service “a farmers market on wheels.”

Posted in Food Tradition | Also tagged family farming, farm buyers club | 6 Comments

Organic Valley Raw Milk Policy Endangers Pro-Family Farm Image

Food Politics, Raw Milk | September 30, 2010

Organic Valley is bullying their members into curtailing raw milk sales. This outrage will hurt many families, those that produce grassfed raw milk and those that desperately need it.

Posted in Food Politics, Raw Milk | Also tagged anti-raw milk, family farms, food freedom, raw dairy, small farms | 14 Comments

For Family Fun Tour a Raw Dairy Farm

Animal Husbandry, Raw Milk | August 18, 2010

If you are looking for a unique way to entertain your children, and teach them about our farming heritage at the same time, visit a traditional raw dairy farm. Joseph Heckman recounts a recent trip to a Pennsylvania family farm.

Posted in Animal Husbandry, Raw Milk | Also tagged dairy business, dairy farms, farm buyers club, pasture raised chickens, Raw Milk | 5 Comments

Petition Nader and Ron Paul to Save Family Farms

Local Food | January 21, 2009

FarmOn, an activist coalition started by Linn Cohen Cole is circulating an internet petition, asking Ron Paul and Ralph Nader to save our desperate small farmers from the agribusiness monopoly steamroller. With our new secretary of agriculture representing Agribusiness interests, we are going to need to do a lot of grassroots campaigning to bring the [...]