August 19th, 2011 | Our Food, Raw Milk, BC, community, cows, cowshare, CSA, Dairy, farmer, goats, health, michael schmidt, ourcows, realfood, realmilk, Vancouver
Last weekend we headed out to our local community dairy’s annual farm picnic (www.ourcows.ca). I was pretty excited as we’d only been out to the farm once before on a cold rainy day, which was fun as well–at the time there were about 7 young calves and a litter of puppies–but it is always nice to be on a farm, in the sun, with smiling children and animals of all sorts playing higgledy-piggledy all over the place. When we got out of the car, I wondered for a second if the event was just meant for families with kids…then the tractor started up and the packed out hay ride lumbered slowly through the farm gate and all I knew was I had to get me a seat on the next ride.
We were just in time for the milking so we headed into the barn to observe the cows come in. It was delightful to hear the kid’s excited chortles as the cows rushed to get in position. Once the cows were contentedly licking up their treat, little hands started reaching out, slowly at first and then with more confidence to touch and rub the noses of their cows.
August 2nd, 2011
The numbers have been crunched and show conclusively that the risk of drinking raw milk is miniscule compared to the risk of eating contaminated luncheon meat and other foods. These days everyone knows that eating food from factory farmed large-scale agribusiness is dangerous and that you are better ...
January 31st, 2011
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The grassroots Real Milk movement was begun years ago, by Sally Fallon Morell in the US. Here in Canada, Michael Schmidt gave the movement an opportunity wh ...
January 31st, 2011
Let's take a minute to raise our glasses of fresh raw milk to our modern prophet Sally Fallon Morell who wrote Nourishing Traditions and who started this grass-roots Real Milk revolution, and thanks, of course to Weston A. Price for all of his research. There is much more to the movement for direct ...
January 27th, 2011
Event to Support Local Community Dairies
Milk War
Written and directed by award winning journalist Kevin O'Keefe
Produced by Declan O'Driscoll
Gemini Award-winning actor Colm Feore narrates
Please join us on February 6th, 2011 3-5 pm at the Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway @Commercial Drive) ...
January 22nd, 2011
Wow this video is just too funny! Beware the milkman--they are always so healthy and in shape from all the good raw milk they drink and hard work they do. I guess they just can't help but be good and wholesomely sexy, with a strong libido to boot. That's probably where all those tales we used to hea ...
January 19th, 2011
We live in a small apartment overlooking a couple main roads, right next to two gas stations in Vancouver BC. When we moved here one of the first things I did was to try to find a farm that would supply us with raw milk. Living in an apartment in a city without a place to grow your own food or have ...
December 15th, 2010
Our local Cowshare is working hard to raise money for the legal fees incurred by Fraser Health's attack on our right to access milk directly from our cows. One of our cowshare members, Noriko has been working really hard and set up a screening of the recently released film "Milk War" at the Rio the ...
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Last weekend we headed out to our local community dairy’s annual farm picnic (www.ourcows.ca). I was pretty excited as we’d only been out to the farm once before on a cold rainy day, which was fun as well–at the time there were about 7 young calves and a litter of puppies–but it is always nice to be on a farm, in the sun, with smiling children and animals of all sorts playing higgledy-piggledy all over the place. When we got out of the car, I wondered for a second if the event was just meant for families with kids…then the tractor started up and the packed out hay ride lumbered slowly through the farm gate and all I knew was I had to get me a seat on the next ride.
