by David Gumpert | Feb 11, 2016 | What's New |
Mark McAfee credits Organic Pastures’ “test-and-hold” protocol with having averted a potentially huge E.coli O157:H7 disaster last month. As it is, at least four children appear to have been sickened directly by OPDC milk, and possibly two others became ill on a...
by David Gumpert | Feb 5, 2016 | What's New |
Sam Girod is a Kentucky farmer who runs a small business selling natural skin salves made from herbs such as chickweed, which seem to help relieve a host of skin conditions, including allergic rashes, psoriasis, poison oak and even skin cancers. If you look up...
by David Gumpert | Feb 2, 2016 | What's New |
Will Joyce Brown, the vocal dissenting member of Highland Haven Farm’s herd share, finally get her revenge on Ohio farm owner Adam Hershberger? Possibly, if it is up to an Ohio Department of Agriculture enforcement agent, Ron Cordial, who says ODA prosecution of...
by David Gumpert | Jan 18, 2016 | What's New |
One big positive to emerge from the Joyce Brown situation I described in my last post was her report that the Ohio Department of Agriculture appears to have washed its hands of the raw milk political piñata that other regulators can’t get enough of. In one of her...
by David Gumpert | Jan 9, 2016 | What's New |
There are all kinds of reasons members leave a raw milk herdshare—perhaps they aren’t drinking as much milk as they once did, or they find an alternative source of milk closer to home, or they don’t like the farmer’s sanitation practices, or they are moving to another...
by David Gumpert | Jan 2, 2016 | What's New |
Suddenly, in mid November, the story about fermented cod liver oil seemed to go silent. It was almost as if the FCLO controversy—some had turned to calling it a scandal—had simply ended. But, of course, that wasn’t the case. Green Pasture, the only known commercial...
by David Gumpert | Dec 27, 2015 | What's New |
Just what is going on with Chipotle Mexican Grill, the 1,800-plus-outlet chain of Mexican-style food? And what might be the impact of its food-safety problems on its local-food model, along with many thousands of smaller producers of sustainable local food? Since last...
by David Gumpert | Dec 20, 2015 | What's New |
Michigan pig farmer Mark Baker got some strange holiday greetings from his state’s Department of Natural Resources late last week: a search warrant, served by regulators accompanied by state police. The warrant apparently had to do with a packaging issue discovered...
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