Safeway Supermarket invites local farmers to showcase their foods at one of their Northern Virginia stores. Know your farmer, know your farm friendly grocery store!
A great idea for a local food event is to host a holiday open house and pot luck. A guest speaker sweetens the pot and will draw a big crowd.
A Boston Milk Party is being staged on Monday, after ag officials launched an assault on raw milk buying clubs. Activists are convinced the battle is not over.
News clips and a You Tube video by Max Kane give you the scoop on the raw milk symposium held April 2010 in Madison, Wisconsin.
Small farms from all over the country descended on Washington, DC last week, bearing gifts of their food. They made a plea to Congress to protect local food systems from destruction by burdensome laws.
Russian Orphan Adopted and Growing Strong on Raw Dairy A video interview by Cathy Raymond, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund Rudy was a sickly little boy in a Russian orphanage. Family farmers, Wayne and Kay Craig adopted him, and helped him grow into a hardy, intelligent little boy, with farm fresh foods, and a good life [...]
Consumers and farmers are uniting on two fronts this week, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. to speak out for consumer freedom of choice and food safety.
Actions by Wisconsin regulators have created an explosion of interest in protecting consumer access to raw dairy. An upcoming public hearing gives citizens a chance to speak out for food freedom.
A video interview with a Virginia herbalist dramatically shows the heavy burden too many laws and overlapping bureaucracies puts on cottage industry in the U.S.
Clare Hamilton goes to the head of her class on food safety. This farm girl is growing up on a sustainable farm in Colorado, and one can only hope the politicians listen to her words of wisdom.
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