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Living Smoothie: Apple, Ginger, Carrot & Kefir

Well I’ve been feeling a bit bad about not posting many recipes lately, so I just wanted to share this one. Recently we’ve started adding juices to our kefir–yum! Very easy fresh and full of friendly enzymes, probiotics and vitamins.

  • 3 apples
  • 3 medium carrots
  • 1-2 inch piece of ginger
  • 1 c of freshly made kefir
Pasteurisation, a Sour Story

Pasteurisation, a Sour Story

The following is re-posted from The Good Soup, written by Angela. It helps to explain the differences between the type of raw milk that needs to be pasteurized and the quality fresh raw milk that doesn't as well as what pasteurizing milk covers up. Pasteurization, A Sour Story The word ‘ ...

Raw Milk is a Movement Whose Time Has Come

Raw Milk is a Movement Whose Time Has Come

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 ...

The Amazing Health Benefits of Kefir

The Amazing Health Benefits of Kefir

This is mostly a reposting of the information about kefir put together over at www.bovinity.webs.com. A wonderful and well-researched look into how kefir can help with cancer, herpes, IBS, immune disfunction, allergies, colitis and leaky gut among many other things. If anyone in Vancouver BC would l ...

Underground Market for Vancouver BC

Underground Market for Vancouver BC

I have been following closely the adventures of the Underground Market that was started up in San Francisco a couple years ago and I would really like to see one get going here in Vancouver BC. I recently read this update from them, which takes a look at the lessons they have learned over the year a ...

Boonville Milkman

Boonville Milkman

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 ...

Hemp Hearts Salad

Hemp Hearts Salad

I have a couple friends that are doing detox or cleansing treatments after the holidays, to set their bodies on a healthy course for the next year, and perhaps lose some weight gained through all the holiday feasting. I hadn't given much thought to doing one myself, since I feel I generally keep a h ...

Constitutional Battle For Fresh Milk Expands To BC

Constitutional Battle For Fresh Milk Expands To BC

Fresh Milk advocate Alice Jongerden filed an application today in the New Westminster courthouse in British Columbia to challenge the constitutionality of the prohibition against the production and distribution of Fresh Milk. Alice Jongerden, the founder and former operator of a 450-member Fresh ...

Support Vancouver’s Raw Milk Community

Support Vancouver’s Raw Milk Community

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 ...

Selected Book List

Selected Book List

I have finally put together a list of some of my favorite reads of late. I am sure there could be a ton more books added to this list, and I will most likely make another one some day. These books have helped me to shift the way I view the world and the potential of mankind. We are very intimately i ...