Guest Blogs

Guest Blogs

The Family Cow – Raw Milk Safety and Government Manipulation

Mark McAfee visits the family cow.

Mark McAfee visits the family cow.

The following article is reposted with permission. It is Edwin Shank’s personal exploration of what may be going on behind the scenes of North American government regulatory departments in regards to their accelerated paranoia around raw milk. The Family Cow prides itself in utilizing cutting edge technology as well as traditional animal husbandry in producing the cleanest, pathogen-free raw milk that money can buy. Please read on…

Raw Yogurt Herbal Facial Cleanser

Raw Yogurt Herbal Facial Cleanser

This is a lovely recipe from one of our local cowshare family - Heather Passmore is an amazing artist who has the ability to turn lemons into lemonade as you will see from this selection of some of her cool artwork: Rejection, Revised. Try out this recipe and you will have a chance to try a bit ...

The Benefits Of Raw Milk Cosmetics

The Benefits Of Raw Milk Cosmetics

The Benefits Of Raw Milk Cosmetics by Marcela De Vivo Raw milk is natural and unmodified by any chemicals --unlike the milk you might buy at your local grocery market. Pasteurized (or “sterilized”) milk is altered with added protein, and lactose. This allows companies to cut a gallon of milk ...

Getting to Know Our Busy Friends the Bees

Getting to Know Our Busy Friends the Bees

Peter Finch of Cedar Cottage Community Garden sent us this beautiful guest post to help us get to know our busy and friendly co-species the bees. If we didn't have bees we wouldn't have us it's that simple. Peter Finch is one of the founders of the lovely forest garden under the skytrain and is ...

Four Common Anti-Raw Milk Strategies

Four Common Anti-Raw Milk Strategies

Following piece is written by farmer Edwin Shank of www.yourfamilycow.com and reposted with permission. It outlines the fear-mongering tactics used by industry and government institutions to distract the masses from Big Food's disgusting factory farms and the unstoppable super-bugs they have unl ...

Good Vs Ineffective Probiotics

Good Vs Ineffective Probiotics

Michael Larsen is the father of twins, one of whom was diagnosed with Autism in 2008. After implementing the Body Ecology diet along with plenty of young coconut water kefir their daughter, Tula, is now fully recovered and living a full and healthy life. Michael and his wife, Holly, founded the ...

What is Stillness?

What is Stillness?

This is written by a Juliana Gee a certified biodynamic craniosacral therapist from Vancouver Island. She explores the deep healing space that is available for us to rebalance and integrate our traumas. It is helpful to share our experiences of this state of being as it helps all of us put into word ...

Simple Natural Motherhood

Simple Natural Motherhood

This guestpost is by Leanne Gypsy, amazing woman who has traveled to remote corners of the world and witnessed first hand the beautiful diversity of humanity. We hope to hear more from her in the future. From when we first decided to bring a life into our world, I began meditate on what I imagine ...

Artisan Cheese Cultivators

Artisan Cheese Cultivators

This is a really fantastic post, by Jeanne Carpenter regarding a conference she attended about cheese. Jeanne runs her company, Wisconsin Cheese Originals, and promotes the state's artisan cheeses. I really appreciated the love these cheesemakers have for their bacteria, it is amazing what delicious ...

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 ‘ ...