Organic Interest

Slowing Down On The Farm: The Story Of The Straus Dairy

August 27th, 2008 ·

By Catherine Girardeau

Marin County dairy farmer Albert Straus started moving toward a “slower” way of doing business back in 1994, when his family-owned farm, Straus Family Creamery, became the only organic dairy west of the Mississippi.

Straus, whose organic ice cream will be scooped out at the Ice Cream Pavilion at Slow Food Nation, has been producing organic milk, yogurt, butter and ice cream under the family name ever since. Straus grew up on his father’s conventional dairy farm in Marshall, California, a town so small it had a one-room schoolhouse, on the shores of Tomales Bay in western Marin County, 60

 

 

 

 

Read full article from owner/source: http://www.greenrightnow.com/2008/08/27/slowing-down-on-the-farm-the-story-of-the-straus-dairy/ 

 

Used Farm Equipment NEEDED

If you have any web sites or dealers in NC and SC that have used farm equipment….please let me know. Thank you!

Kubota Tractor or ???

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Organic Cropland

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