In Ohio, a Major Shift on Raw Milk

by | Mar 21, 2007 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Carol Schmitmeyer, the mother of five children whose entire livelihood was placed on the line by the Ohio Department of Agriculture’s aggressive anti-raw-milk stance (described in a BusinessWeek.com article I wrote last November), can finally breathe easier. She...

Writing About Raw Milk, Sans Politics

by | Mar 20, 2007 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Aside from the inherently interesting story of the Klaty family’s full-scale involvement in their Michigan goat farm, which I just wrote for BusinessWeek.com (along with a slide show), there was something unusual about the story I didn’t...

The Revenge of the Community-Oriented Farmer

by | Mar 19, 2007 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Thank you, Dave Milano, for making an important connection between the move to locally produced natural foods and effective business planning, and pushing me in that direction. I have tended to keep these matters separate, both here on this blog, and in my mind, when...

Further Thoughts on NAIS and a New Ecological Era

by | Mar 17, 2007 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

A few miscellaneous thoughts and references:–In retrospect, I wonder if I misinterpreted the significance of Greg Niewendorp’s act of civil disobedience in refusing to go along with Michigan’s first-in-the-nation enforcement of the National Animal...