Book Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Book Reviews, Sustainable Farming

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals is a fascinating book about the origins, science, marketing and nutrition of the food we eat. The author, an investigative journalist, followed four different types of meals down to their smallest component...

Simple Living: Savoring Simple Tasks

Simple Living

One barrier to simple living is our perception that living simply will take longer, cost more, or make us even busier and more stressed out than we were before. Certainly some modern conveniences are helpful, and we wouldn’t want to throw the baby out with the...

Whole Food: Ugandan Vanilla Beans

Real Food, Recipes

When you have friends who travel to Uganda each year you never know what they will bring home, especially if your friend is Mrs. Carney Farris. This past trip Carney came home with some wonderful treats for our whole food loving customers. Carney trekked through...

How to Get Raw Milk: Cow Sharing

Health, Raw Milk

What is the world is cowboarding or cowsharing? That is a question that I have been asked more times than I can count. Here is how it all started for us…Raw Milk  From as early as I can remember I could not tolerate dairy of any kind but I accepted that and...

Health: Natural Sources of Vitamin A

Free Range Chicken, Health, Raw Milk, Sustainable Farming

As with children, cows are susceptible to bouts of pinkeye from time to time. Part of sustainable farming is coming up with natural methods for managing problems like this whenever possible. One of the best natural cures for pinkeye in cattle (though not recommended...

Finding Joy in Simple Living

Musings, Simple Living

Our culture lends itself to busyness, and often even those of us who are drawn to local sustainable agriculture and natural, organic foods and products can find ourselves rushing through things and hurrying more than we’d like. In the midst of all the important...