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100-Percent Grass-Fed DairiesMilk from 100-percent grass-fed animals is much healthier than ordinary milk. It has a higher concentration of vitamins and antioxidants, fewer “bad” fats, and more “healthy” fats such as omega-3 fatty acids and CLA (conjugated linoleic acid). The following dairies raise their animals on forage alone. Typically, the forage includes grass and a legume such as clover or alfalfa. The animals are given hay or grass silage when there is not enough high-quality pasture. There are very few grass-only dairies in the United States. Cows that eat greens alone produce less milk, and their production can go way down in the winter, making it hard for the farmers to make a profit. For this reason, many of the dairy farmers listed on eatwild.com graze their animals but supplement them with small amounts of grain. (The type of supplement given and the amount will be in their listing.) The more grass in the animals’ diet, the healthier the milk. All of the dairy farmers listed on Eatwild produce delicious, superior milk that is free of antibiotics and added hormones. We have made a separate list of these 100-percent grass-fed dairies because they are very rare, and because of the premium products they sell. You can expect to pay more for these products because the farmers are sacrificing volume for quality. For more information about the nutritional benefits, read the essay Super Healthy Milk by Jo Robinson, and look for news postings about milk in the Benefits for Your Health section. Visit Scientific References for a list of specific studies. CONNECTICUT Our cattle are rare and beautiful red Milking Devons, with horns. It is renowned for its rich creamy milk, fine beef, and willingness as a draft animal. The most popular colonial breed because of its triple purpose usefulness, it is now endangered. It is renowned for its rich creamy milk, its fine beef, and its willingness as a draft animal. The farm produces beef and a creamery selling yogurt, and a variety of cheeses. Unlike today’s high performance specialized breeds, Milking Devons do extremely well on a simple diet of rich pastures and good hay, composed of a high diversity of grasses, clovers, and herbs. No grain is fed to our cattle. They only receive natural kelp, salt, and small amounts of minerals added to their lush salad grass, derived from enriched soil, pasture rotation, and regular composting methods. Woodbridge Farm also raises heritage poultry and pigs. They are fed only organic grain, supplemented by open pasture rotation for the birds, and woodland runs for the pigs. We raise fine heritage breeds of turkeys and chickens that follow the cattle in the pasture rotation pens when they reach the pullet stage. The fowl prepare the pasture for a new cycle of growth with their scratching and stimulation of the ground and plants, reducing the need for mowing and harrowing with a tractor. Woodbridge Farm, David and Julia Smagorinsky,
farmers,
FLORIDA Sea Breeze Organic Farm offers organic grassfed dairy, beef, lamb, buffalo, goat, chicken, turkey, pork, eggs, and dairy cheese (cow and goat), as well as vegetables, herbs, fruits, and citrus. We also make our own certified organic orange and grapefruit juice from the world-renowned Indian River. We also have fermented foods. The mentor for our farm is a third generation homeopath/naturopath doctor in his 70s with plenty of mileage under his belt. After his help with my own health issues I discovered the benefits of highly nutritious grassfed food. Our farm is dedicated to him for his help. Now we want to share our grassfed farming practices for your consumption as well. E-mail us for a products and price list. We also offer various workshops pertaining to nutrition and farming practices by professionals in their given fields. We have routes that deliver our products in Florida, as well as attending four different Green Markets between Ft. Pierce and West Palm Beach. Sea Breeze Organic Farm, Joseph and Gloria Cosmano, Fort Pierce FL, (772) 489-7905. E-mail: SeaBreezeOF@aol.com ILLINOIS Poultry is available May through November. Beef and pork available Fall and Winter. Our pure raw goat milk springs direct from our farm daily! Fresh eggs are also available daily, with WEEKLY DROP OFF LOCATIONS IN SPRINGFIELD. Farm visitors are always welcome after 3 pm weekdays and all day Saturday. Feel free to call with questions or orders. Farm tours are also available for groups upon request! James Family Farm, Andrea James, 3750
Sherman Road, Sherman IL 62684. (217) 496-2160. E-mail: jamesfamilyx6@gmail.com. Stone Organic Pastures in Fisher (near Champaign, IL–Central Illinois) is Certified Organic by Indiana Certified Organic, LLC. Our farmland/pasture has never been sprayed with any chemical for over 20 years. Fall-Spring 2005/6 we will have available: Certified Organic RAW cow milk from Iowa Department of Agriculture Certified Organic registered purebred Jersey cows that are 100% grassfed (no-grain, no soy), purebred Nubian raw goat milk, and cow butter. All cows are vet certified TB and Brucellosis negative. Our animals are given a USDA certified organic proprietary supplement which is designed to retard the growth of bad bacteria/pathogens, lower the somatic cell count, and optimize the animals' gut pH (3.9) levels so that bad bacteria/pathogens don't have a chance to flourish. ALL animals/ products are Certified Organic AND fed USDA 100% Certified Organic feed and in optimal conditions. Female roasters which are allowed to roam anywhere on pasture are available now (Fall/Spring 2005/06). Both roaster and layer chickens are allowed to roam anywhere on the pasture (fenceless/grass-ranged) and we utilize rotational grazing. We have brown eggs from chickens fed USDA certified organic feed. Blueberries and blueberry juice from the high anti-oxidant Rubel Blueberry variety will be available Spring 2006. Through our research, we have developed a new methodology that we believe is superior to the American and European standards of raising animals. Our focus is on the health of the animals without conventional vaccines or chemicals. Delivering now (Fall 2005) to downtown Chicago & suburbs,
and central and southern IL. For more detailed information, visit
our website. Vincent Family Farm is centrally
located just outside Springfield, IL. Products include chickens, eggs, raw milk, raw milk
cheese (call for availability), and grass fed and finished beef (call
for availability).
INDIANA The Swiss Connection features farmstead hard cheese. The milk for the cheese comes from our own mixed-breed herd of all-grassfed cows. The herd calves each spring. The cows' diet consists of grass and legume pasture with some seasonal hay supplementation. We use no grain, silage, hormones, antibiotics, or pesticides, resulting in cheese with the highest nutritional value (including high levels of CLA and omega-3s) and no undesirable chemicals. At the present, we make cheddar, Colby, and Monterey jack in a variety of flavors. The cheese is available for shipping in approximately 1/2 pound packages. We have a small store at the barn where we offer our cheese and our own cured ground beef products and hamburger. We also make hard ice cream using a high fat mix manufactured by Prairie Farms™. The Swiss Connection, Alan and Mary Yegerlehner,
1087 East County Road, 550 South, Clay
City IN 47841. (812) 939-2813. Traders Point Farm Organics offers certified USDA organic grass-fed dairy products, eggs, and raw honey from our farm. We use a rotational grazing system to ensure that our animals receive the freshest high-quality food possible. We raise Brown Swiss Cows and free-range hens. Our cows are 100% grass-fed and our hens are free-range and supplemented with an organic diet. Our certified organic "Creamline" dairy product line includes: organic whole milk, organic chocolate milk, organic whole milk yogurt (plain or with organic fruit), organic ice cream, and organic cheeses. Our products are available at our Traders Point Creamery Farm Store that is open 365 days a year from 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. and from over 57 retail outlets in the Indianapolis, Lafayette, Bloomington and Kokomo (Indiana) areas. They’ll also be available in the Chicago area in 2005. Visit our website for a list of where you can find our products. We believe in "Nourishing the Land that Nourishes Us All." This means preserving the family farm and continuing our grandparents' legacy of sensible, sustainable agriculture—agriculture that uses our natural resources wisely. Traders Point Creamery, David Robb, 9101 Moore
Road, Zionsville
IN 46077. (317) 733-1700. E-mail: info@tpforganics.com KANSAS Jako, Inc. is one of the few grass-only dairies in the United States, giving the milk the maximum amount of CLA and omega-3s. The cows produce seasonally and are allowed to dry up in the winter months. They are not treated with synthetic hormones, feed antibiotics, grain, or feed additives. Whole milk and butter is available from April to mid-November at the farm. Butter can be shipped frozen. Pastured chickens and beef from the dairy cattle, and pork raised on pasture and skim milk are also available. Jako, Inc., Kenneth King, 6003
E. Eales Road, Hutchinson KS 67501. (620) 663-1470 (phone
and fax) E-mail: ken@jakoinc.com MAINE Second Chance Farm, LLC and Longfellow's Creamery offers grass-fed, dry-aged, certified organic beef; whey-fed, pastured Berkshire pork; grass and milk-fed certified organic veal; raw milk and farmstead cheese. Our dairy animals will be certified organic in May 2007, at which time our class A dairy will be licensed. We sell meat either by the cut, or in quarters or halves; milk by the quart, 1/2 gallon or gallon; and cheese by the pound. We gladly ship overnight in cool-pak boxes, and we sell from the farm gate and at various farmers markets in Maine. Our animals are humanely raised and we use sustainable farming practices. Our farm's motto is: "Nourishing the body, sustaining the spirit, celebrating community." Call us at the farm and we will be happy to serve your needs! Second Chance Farm, LLC., Kathy Trodden, 20 Maple Lane/PO Box 431, Avon ME 04966. (207) 639-2074. E-mail: kht@adelphia.net. MASSACHUSETTS Chase Hill Farm. The Organic Farmstead Cheese from Chase Hill Farm is handcrafted in small batches from fresh top quality raw milk. We use exclusively the organic-certified milk from our own herd of grassfed cows. Our Original Farmstead Cheese is mild like a Colby or Havarti cheese, but with a unique flavor that retains the "character" of our raw milk. Our cheese has a sweet, creamy flavor and a buttery yellow color that comes from our green grass. We also make a Farmstead Cheese with Garlic, some with Chives, Cheddar, and recently started making 1/2 lb. Organic Camembert rounds. Chase Hill Farm is an organic-certified family farm in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts. Mark and Jeannette Fellows manage the farm as a grass-based seasonal dairy. Our mission is to produce quality local food from grassfed cows using sustainable low input practices. These practices include rotational grazing, seasonal calving, and using draft horsepower. Our herd of 30 Jersey, Normandy and Holstein cows milk seasonally from March to December. We feed organic grain for about 8 weeks from calving until grass is ready here in northern Massachusetts, but the rest of the year cows are 100% grassfed. Our Organic Farmstead Cheeses are available in local stores and farmstands in western Massachusetts, and in some of the Boston-area Bread & Circus stores. We also ship our cheeses. Wheels run around 8 lbs. each. Cost: $50/wheel plus $10/UPS shipping. Chase Hill Farm, Jeannette Fellows, 74 Chase Hill Road, Warwick MA 01378. (978) 544-6327. E-mail: chasehillfarm@yahoo.com Misty Brook Farm is a certified organic farm certified by Baystate Organic Certifiers. We are a traditional mixed farm in Central Massachusetts on the eastside of the Quabbin Reservoir. Our crops are grown in a rotation and our animals are rotationally grazed. Our dairy cows, beefers, and veal calves are 100% grass-fed. They
graze from April to November and eat hay during the winter months.
Our lambs are also 100% grass fed from the day they arrive. Pigs
are used for clearing land and are raised on organic grains, milk,
and vegetables. Poultry are fed organic grains and what they find
free-ranging. Eggs, pork, veal, and raw cows’ milk are available year round. Beef and lamb are available in late Autumn. To pre-order a whole or half meat animal please contact us. We also offer Babcia's Farm pasture-fed organic chickens and turkeys. Misty
Brook Farm, Katia Clemmer and Brendan Holmes, PO Box 62, Hardwick
MA 01037/ 830
Springhill Road, Barre MA. (413) 477-8234
MINNESOTA Cedar Summit Farm has been a family dairy farm for three generations. They have adopted a grazing system where all animals are pastured on the land for at least seven months and fed stored grasses the remainder of the year. No antibiotics or added hormones (rBGH) are used. They raise beef, pork, chickens and even turkeys for Thanksgiving! Cedar Summit Farm also has an onsite creamery for an assortment of dairy products including non-homogenized milk and cream in glass bottles, yogurt, ice cream, butter, hard cheeses, and sour cream. Feel free to visit them at any time. Their production hours are Monday–Friday 8–6 and Saturdays 8–12. You can purchase a wide variety of meats and dairy products in the creamery showroom. You can find many of their dairy products at Twin Cities Natural Food Co-ops. They also provide home delivery service to New Prague and surrounding areas. Call for information. Cedar Summit Farm, Dave and Florence Minar, 25830 Drexel Avenue, New
Prague MN 56071. (952) 758-6886. Green Pastures Dairy, owned and
operated by the Hedquist Family, offers Minnesota Farmstead™ 100%
grass-fed, all natural, raw
milk cheese. Spring through fall we milk our totally grass-fed
cows and use this highly nutritious milk to make our hand-crafted
cheeses. As a result of these practices, our milk is high in CLA, natural
vitamins, and has a balanced fatty acid ratio. All of our cheeses
are carefully made to maintain and maximize the nutrition and quality
of our milk. Our cheese is made from milk that is not altered in any way. It is never pasteurized, homogenized, or standardized. It is all aged a minimum of 60 days, with the some aged as long as 4 years. Our cheeses are available year round. Orders may be placed by phone, or online. Also for local customers we offer raw milk May through September, 100% grass-fed ground beef, and pasture and whey-fed pork. Green Pastures Dairy, The Hedquist Family, 2353
Bromfield Road, Carlton MN 55718. (218) 384-4513. PastureLand is pleased to offer awarding winning* gourmet butter and artisan cheeses from the milk of grass-fed cows grazing organically certified pastures in southeastern Minnesota. We are a small cooperative of family operated, grass-based dairy farms working together for the good of consumers, the environment, and member farmers to ensure a healthy, reliable community food source into the future. PastureLand co-op members are committed to using sustainable farming methods: building the soil, grass varieties, and pasture eco-systems that nourish our animals. We take great pride in our ability to provide the high-quality pasture necessary for healthy dairy herds without having to supplement their diet with grain. Our cows receive of 100% of their diet from grass during the seven-month growing season, and are housed in sheltered pastures during the winter months. All of PastureLand farms have received organic and Food Alliance certification, and use no hormones or antibiotics in their herds to enhance growth or production. Our butter and cheese are only made while our animals graze lush, green pastures, and are available at select retail outlets in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin, or by mail order. Our nutrient-rich, yellow butter is shipped frozen in one-pound blocks. Gouda, herb Gouda, tomato-basil Gouda, and cheddar are available in half-pound wedges or 11 pound wheels. We anticipate adding more cheese varieties in coming months. All PastureLand products are pasteurized. PastureLand, Dodge
Center MN 55927. (888) 331-9115. E-mail: jean@pastureland.coop Website: http://www.pastureland.coop
MISSISSIPPI Gloryland Farms is a small, family-run enterprise located on
30 beautiful gently-rolling acres in south central Mississippi.
We are dedicated to raising grass-fed and finished meat and dairy
products, and grew out of our desire to produce the healthiest
farm products possible to enhance our family's health. We accomplished
this by developing a production model to raise our livestock naturally,
and free of antibiotics, hormones, and all animal by-products. Gloryland Farms, Tom and Terri Kelly, 479 CR 2339, Bay Springs MS 39422. (601) 764-9446. E-mail: grassfed@bayspringstel.net MISSOURI Breezy Hill Farm is a Missouri Century Farm. Our family has farmed this land over 130 years. We are a Certified Naturally Grown Farm. The farm is located 50 miles east of Kansas City, Mo. We deliver within a 100 mile radius. We have been raising grass fed beef for over 20 years. Our animals get ONLY GRASS and our own hay, if needed. No antibiotics, growth hormones, herbicides or pesticides are used. We have had a closed herd with a limousin/devon genetic base for seven years. We do not augment with sale barn animals. If we are out of beef, we have to wait for the next harvest. Wholes, halves and split halves are available. Meat is processed by Remer Meat Co. and dry aged for three weeks. Real Milk from Brown Swiss and Guernseys (grass or hay only–no grain) and free range eggs are available at the farm. Please take time and visit our farm www.breezy-hill-farm.com. Go to "The Experience" and click on "Photos". Breezy Hill Farm, Art Ozias, 62
SW 58 Hwy, Centerview MO 64019. Family Friendly Farm is a family farm business located just ten minutes north of Cape Girardeau and two hours from St. Louis, MO. Our desire is to produce the healthiest, most nutritious meat so our customers feel good about eating it and feeding it to their families. They feel confident knowing where their food is coming from, how it was raised, what it was fed and how it was processed. We raise pastured chicken, eggs from hens on pasture, pastured pork. The poultry and pork are supplemented with locally grown grains and natural sources of vitamins and minerals. We also raise grassfed beef and milk from 100% grassfed Jerseys. The cattle are supplemented with hay and kelp. Milk is available with the cream on top in a glass jar! Our dairy cattle are machine milked then quickly bottled and chilled for optimal quality. Classes will be offered to teach you how to make your own butter, yogurt and cheese. All of our animals are allowed unlimited amounts of natural sunshine, fresh air and exercise, never fed routine antibiotics, hormones, or unnatural growth stimulants. Using sustainable agriculture techniques, we provide them an environment where they can thrive. In return, the animals provide a safe, healthy, nutritious eggs, meat and milk for our families to eat. Customers are welcome to visit the farm often and see how the animals are growing, help collect eggs or watch on a chicken processing day. This kind of hands-on environment allows the customer to feel like this is their farm, too. That is the way it should be. Come on out and experience the difference! Our high quality meats can be purchased at our on farm store or at several retail outlets in Missouri and Illinois. Family Friendly Farm, Matthew and Rachel Fasnacht, 834
State Highway V, Cape Girardeau MO 63701 (573) 335-1622 Milestone Farm is located in Hardin, Missouri, about 50 miles northeast of Kansas City. We raise grass-fed mini Jerseys, Dexters and Holstein dairy cows, grass-fed beef, pastured chicken and turkeys, and pastured eggs. We occasionally produce butter and cheese for sale, and can take orders for pastured pork, goat and lamb. We do not use hormones, steroids or routine antibiotics and cattle are raised using rotational pastures. We are working toward organic certification. Our meat is processed at a USDA-inspected facility and vacuum sealed. Shipping is available. Milestone Farm, Jennifer Gavoli, 47976 East 156th Street, Hardin MO 64035. (660) 484-3811. E-mail: jenn@gavoli.com. Pasture Nectar Farm and Mercantile is located in the Ozarks of southern Missouri. Our primary product is grass. Our grass gets harvested by some lucky cows and chickens, and they turn it into lots of delectable things – the nectar: milk, cream, eggs, meat. Our Shorthorn cows produce excellent meat, milk and cream for your family. They eat only fresh grass and clover from our rotated chemical-free pastures during the growing season, and hay in the winter—never steroids, hormones, or processed feeds, no animal by-products. Our meat animals get no grain for your health and theirs. Raw milk is sold in gallon-sized plastic jugs. You are welcome to visit our squeaky-clean dairy parlor anytime. We butcher June and October while cattle are on green pasture for
sweeter meat, then dry-age for 2 to 3 weeks. You can buy individual
cuts any time (while quantities last) or order by the whole, half,
or quarter beef. Please order early to make sure you get
some. Pasture Nectar Farm and Mercantile, Eric and Kathy Vimont and family,
14809 Lawrence 2160, Mount
Vernon MO 65712. (417) 461-7277 or (417) 366-0999. E-mail: pasturenectar@centurytel.net. U.S. Wellness Meats, has a mission of providing superior quality, grass-fed beef, butter, raw dairy & goat cheese, lamb, free range poultry, certified humane pork and gourmet rabbit as part of our overall goal of improving family nutrition, rural communities, and the environment. The website contains links to wild salmon, grass-fed bison, fresh lobster and gluten-free prepared meals. Beef, lamb, dairy cows, milking goats and bison are raised on high quality Midwest pastures with a minimum of 5 cool season grass species complemented with 4 legumes and a sprinkling of native warm season grasses. The pastures are managed intensively with the animals moving to fresh paddocks every 24 to 48 hours to give the forage plants maximum rest which yield maximum quality on the next grazing period. Chickens and turkeys are true free-range in pens that move to fresh pasture every 24 hours yielding a good mix of grass, legumes, insects and fishing worms. The pork is humane-certified by USDA meaning the animals are never confined in cement pens and spend there life in an outside environment. Rabbits are pen- raised due to their territorial nature. Their diet is high in flax seed to maximize omega 3 production. Salmon originate from the Gulf of Alaska on specific GPS coordinates to maintain heavy metal-FREE status; lobsters are caught fresh off the coast of Grand Manan Island and shipped any where in the USA with 36 hours. U.S. Wellness Meats has an ala carte menu with over a 120 choice cuts from the list of protein choices listed above. Our menu includes 7 fully cooked selections of beef, 3 fully cooked pork items and many hard to find beef and lamb organs. We specialize in pemmican energy bars using a native American Cherokee Indian recipe that contains none of the modern processed energy bar additives. Please go to our website for the current inventory available. All products are shipped overnight to most addresses via DHL or Fed Ex to all 50 states in the USA. Service to Puerto Rico, Bermuda and Canada is available. Grassland Beef, LLC., John Wood, 17260
State Highway A, Monticello MO 63457. Toll Free (877) 383-0051
Fax: 573-767-8337
NEW MEXICO Coonridge Organic Goat Cheese is a small family run dairy in the "wilds of New Mexico." We free range our goats on hardy high desert browse plants. We have been Certified Organic by the New Mexico Organic Commodities Commission since 1998. We are producer/processor #133. In 2006 we became GRAIN FREE! University testing verifies our goat
cheeses have more than 3 times as much CLA as other tested
goat cheeses. Our cheese is naturally preserved in organic oils
with spices and is available retail in New Mexico. We also mail
order. Coonridge Organic Goat Cheese, Nancy Coonridge, 47 Coonridge Dairy, Pie
Town NM 87827. (888) 410-8433. NEW YORK Northland Sheep Dairy is a 100% grass-fed farm producing artisanal raw milk cheeses, lamb and mutton, as well as 100% wool products and tanned sheepskins. Our animals are rotationally grazed during the growing season, and fed hay produced on-farm during the winter. We produce our own hay using draft horse and mule power. We do not use chemical wormers or insecticides on the animals. We use a certified organic, USDA-inspected butcher. We sell our cheeses, meats and wool products at the Ithaca Farmers Market every Saturday, April through December, in Ithaca, New York. Because we produce such a small amount of cheese, we only wholesale it to select local purveyors on a limited basis. Our cheeses can sometimes be purchased at Bet the Farm in Aurora, New York, Sheldrake Point Winery in Lodi, New York, Saxelby Cheesemongers in Manhattan, and Stinky Brooklyn, in Brooklyn. Northland Sheep Dairy. Maryrose Livingston
and Donn Hewes, 3501
Hoxie Gorge Freetown Road, Marathon NY 13803. (607) 849-4442. OHIO E.A.T. Food for LIFE specializes in raising clean (organic) and green (pastured) animal products, including eggs, chickens, turkeys, lamb, beef, and goat's milk. We believe this way brings more life to body and soul and is most pleasing to God. Please call us today so we may have an opportunity to nourish your family. E.A.T. Food for Life Farms, Dan and Nancy Kremer, 14360 Mangen
Road, Yorkshire OH
45388. (419) 336-LIFE (5433) Timberlane Farms is a certified organic farm managing 100 cows on rotational intensive grazing. Grassfed beef is available at the present time, with eggs and milk from pastured cows available in the future. Timberlane Farms, Jeff and Theresa Dean, 5285 State Route. 101, Clyde OH, 43410.
TENNESSEE West Wind Farms Organic Meats and Poultry is a 100-acre certified organic, biodynamic farm dedicated to healthy, artisan foods, environmental stewardship and humane animal husbandry. West Wind Farms offers a variety of products year round including certified organic pastured chicken and turkeys, grassfed beef and goat, certified organic pastured pork and certified organic pastured lamb. Meats and poultry are produced without artificial additives, synthetic hormones, subtherapeutic antibiotics, GMOs, chlorine baths, or factory-confinement. Meats and poultry are sold to restaurants, caterers, and directly to the public by mail order and through established delivery locations within a 300 mild radius of the farm. In addition to meats and poultry, find organic eggs from free-range hens, lard, honey, dairy products, vegetables, B.A.R.F. for pets, and more through West Wind Farms' website. The farm plans to offer CSA shares in 2003. A resident farm apprenticeship position is also currently available. West Wind Farms, Kimberlie and Ralph Cole, 155 Shekinah Way, Deer
Lodge TN37726. (423) 965-3334. TEXAS SAND CREEK FARM & DAIRY is a family farm nestled in the rolling hills near Cameron, TX. We milk Jersey and jersey cross cows on a grass based, grain-free, rotational grazing system. Our cows are tested and free of BLV (bovine leukemia virus), TB, Brucellosis, BVD (bovine viral diarrhea) for your protection and ours. Our pastures are organically managed for forage quality and mineral content to provide nutrient dense milk. DAIRY ITEMS: MEAT ITEMS: OTHER ITEMS: By Texas law, raw milk products must be picked up on the farm under threat of prosecution from the State. Therefore many families around the State have formed groups to come to the farm to pick up their items. They come weekly, monthly and every other month. Ask us if there is a group near you. A limited number of Farm Memberships are offered each year giving members a discounted price on milk and eggs at the farm. Meat items can be purchase by the quarter, half or whole for discounted prices. Sand Creek Farm, Ben and Alysha Godfrey, 1552
CR 267, Cameron TX 76520. (254) 697-2927. E-mail: alysha@sandcreekfarm.net or ben@sandcreekfarm.net or alysha@texasbb.com. WASHINGTON Sea Breeze Farm is a diverse, multi-species, “beyond organic,” grass-based animal farm, located on the beautiful Isle of Vashon in Washington’s picturesque Puget Sound. We do not apply commercial fertilizers of any kind to our pastures, relying instead on a grazing technique modeled after the migratory habits of wild cattle and bird populations. This labor-intensive, rotational system allows our freely-ranging poultry flocks to symbiotically forage, fertilize and cleanse the pastures behind our dairy herd. The resulting meat, dairy and eggs produced on our farm are of infinitely superior quality, both flavor- and health-wise than those produced conventionally, and in our opinion are significantly superior to typical “Organic” animal products. We also take pride in the sustainability and resource-wise management of our farm systems. We sell our products only through local channels. Our meat, dairy, eggs, cheese, wines and prepared foods such as ice cream and meat broths are available from our on-site Farmstand, as well as the Vashon Saturday Farmer’s Market. Our pure, whole, unadulterated cow’s milk is also available at the Pike Place Market Creamery in Seattle. Please check this listing frequently as our products will soon be available through additional retailers in both Seattle and Vashon Island. For directions to the farm, please see our website. Farmers Markets: Vashon Farmer’s Market—Saturdays
9am – 1 pm, April through October. Meat, dairy, eggs, wine,
prepared foods Sea Breeze Farm, Owner/Operator George Page (206) 567-5769 or Matthew Lawrence, Farm Manager (206) 579-1331. E-mail: george@seabreezefarm.net or matthew@seabreezefarm.net. Website: http://www.seabreezefarm.net WISCONSIN Full Circle Farm is no longer selling cheese, but we do have raw milk available, as well as a limited amount of grass-fed beef and grass-fed organic eggs. We've been rotational graziers since 1987. Our conservation-award winning farm has been in the family for over 100 years. Humane treatment of animals, land stewardship, and producing healthy foods are the cornerstones of our farm. We believe these ideas are connected in a Full Circle. Full Circle Farm, Rick Adamski and Valerie Dantoin-Adamski, W2407
Hofa Park Road, Seymour
WI 54165. (920) 833-6704. GFBC–Brunkow Cheese Cooperative is a fourth generation cheese manufacturer in the heart of America's dairy land. Our cooperative of grassfed dairies is committed to the production of the finest quality grassfed cheese products on the market today. We continue our tradition of quality and dedication to the all-natural foods industry. Our cheese products incorporate the use of Old World/Hand Made recipes and a rennetless (no animal by-products/no crymosin) cheesemaking process with premium quality grassfed milk provided by our cooperative members. We are the only United States grassfed cheese manufacturer to use an independent third party verification system/audit trail to certify product claims. Contact us today for the finest quality grassfed cheese products. GFBC Brunkow Cheese Cooperative, 9991 Highway 81, Darlington
WI 53530. (800) 338-3773. E-mail: brunchee@mhtc.net LoveTree Farmstead Cheese produces of some of the world's finest and most unique sheep cheese and dry-aged "European" style grass-fed organic lamb. LoveTree is organically farmed with 130 acres devoted to grazing lands and 70 acres to wildlife habitat. This not only makes for a healthy environment, ecologically speaking, but it also offers us some unique opportunities for flavor enhancement of our cave-aged cheeses and our lamb. Our goal is to bring you the flavor of the northwoods through our raw milk cave-aged sheep cheese and our succulent grass and milk-fed lambs. We milk the sheep seasonally (April–September) while the grass is green. We only make the raw milk cheeses from the grass-fed milk. Our market lambs are weaned from their mothers at approximately 45 days and are then reared on whey from the cheeseroom, grass, and sometimes a minimal amount of corn if we have late pastures or an early winter (no more than 1/2 pound of corn a day per lamb when or if it is necessary to feed corn). What We Grow: Raw milk cave-aged sheep cheeses and raw milk cave-aged jersey cow milk cheeses (when milk is available); European style lamb (live weight between 75–90 pounds) June–December; Hot House lambs (live weight 40–55 pounds) April–May; replacement stock for sheep dairies; and livestock guardian dogs. Where We Sell Our Products: St. Paul (MN) Farmers Market, every Saturday April–December, 7 AM–1 PM. Winter Market sale days are every other weekend, January–March, 9 AM–12 PM, corner of 5th & Wall Streets, St. Paul. We also have on farm sales by appointment only at this time. Web/mail order items include raw milk cave-aged cheese. LoveTree Farmstead Cheese, Dave and Mary Falk, 12413 County Road
Z, Grantsburg
WI 54840. (715) 488 2966. Midvalleyvu Farms, Inc. is a family-owned, MOSA Certified Organic,
Grazing, Grade A Dairy Farm located in Pepin County, Wisconsin. Sorry, delivery is not an option. You must come to the farm. Please call for more information. Midvalleyvu Farms, Wayne and Janet Brunner, W8481 County Road Z, Arkansaw WI 54721. (715) 285-MILK (6455). E-mail: info@midvalleyvu.com. Website: http://www.midvalleyvu.com Organic Acres is a certified organic family farm offering raw milk and grassfed beef. Milk is from a jersey herd and our beef is holstein. We will have jersey beef in the future. Our pastures are rotationally grazed to create the ultimate pasture and in turn have better herd health. This means a higher quality product for you, the consumer. Beef will be available in quarters, halves, or whole. Customized cuts available on request. The philosophy on this farm is to have the animals in their natural environment as much as possible to produce high quality products in harmony with Nature. Please call in advance for on farm pickup. Organic Acres, Eli Hershberger, 1896 Ebenezer Road, Fennimore WI 53809. (608) 943-6224. Ruegsegger Farms, located in South Central Wisconsin, offers you the safest, leanest and most flavorful grass-fed meats available. Our 100% Grass Fed and Finished Black Angus Beef is raised on 640 acres of natural grasses, alfalfa and clovers. Our beef graze on pasture from early April thru the winter months. When snow covers the grounds, we feed organically raised local grass and alfalfa hay. You will not find confinement, hormones, antibiotics, chemicals or inhumane treatment on any of our farms. We have not used pesticides since 1985 or herbicides since 1992. Along with our grass-fed Angus beef, we offer grass-fed milk, yogurt and cheese, free-range eggs, chicken, turkey, pork, veal and lamb. Pure raw honey, pure maple and sorghum syrups are also among our customer favorites. Also produced locally by our friends and neighbors (monitored and distributed by Ruegsegger Farms) are duck, pheasant, grass-fed bison, elk and ostrich. Ruegsegger Farms provides you with easy online ordering without the use of credit cards. Simply place your order at http://www.naturalmeats.org. You will then be notified of a local Farmers Market where your selections may be picked up, or you may qualify for our free home delivery service. We ship Buffalo, Elk, Ostrich, & Cheese anywhere in the continental USA. Ruegsegger Farms products are available throughout Southern Wisconsin. We are currently at Farmers Markets in Madison, Milwaukee, Kenosha, Watertown, Lake Mills, Mount Horeb and West Allis. Our Free Home Delivery includes these areas as well as Beloit, Fon du Lac, Portage and Platteville. Ruegsegger Farms, Ken Ruegsegger, 75 York Valley Road, Blanchardville WI 53516. (608) 523-4705. E-mail: krfarms@tds.net. Website: http://www.naturalmeats.org. Saxon Homestead Farm has 350 pastured dairy cows producing milk and 70 bison. This fifth generation farm has transitioned in the past 20 years from a "conventional concrete dairy" to 900 acres of grassland. The owners are half way through the organic certification process. Plans for making farmstead cheese and selling their bison meat and cheese at their own farm store is in the works. Call for current product information. Saxon Homestead Farm, Gerald and Elise Heimerl, 15621 S. Union Road, Cleveland WI 53015. (920) 693-8300.
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