Miller’s Organic Farm in Madison this Saturday

Miller’s Organic Farm will be visiting Madison, at 42B Loantaka Way, this Sat, October 29th, from 8 am to 12 noon. It is a wonderful farm that specializes in farm fresh, 100% grass fed “real” dairy, meats, eggs, lacto-fermented food, fresh breads and more, down from an organic farm in Pennsylvania. Miller's Organic Farm is an Amish, family farm that follows the grass based farming principles promoted by The Weston A. Price Foundation. Their cows are on a high forage diet and are fed no grain to ensure a higher quality, more nourishing and better tasting food. There are no synthetic fertilizers, hormones, or antibiotics used. If you are interested in “Real” milk, raw cheeses, grass-fed, free-range, and soy-free meats, this is a wonderful opportunity.    

Miller’s Organic Farm delivers to Madison, NJ on a bi-weekly basis. They carry goat, sheep, cow and camel milk as well as chicken, turkey, beef, lamb, pork and veal. They also carry fermented veggies and drinks, nuts, eggs, maple syrup, and many other spectacular items. Amos Miller and his son will be here this Sat to speak about their farm, answer questions and share some of their delicious products with you. The Millers do not come this way often, so don’t miss this chance. 

If you would like more information please call Julie at 973-520-8614 or e-mail at ban5143@yahoo.com. Miller’s Organic Farm can be found on this web address: www.mootoyou.org/about.html . We hope to see you there!

The Holiday Season Begins!

I hope you all had a spooky Halloween. I gave out the organic apples as usual. I bought 500 and we ran out by 7:00 pm so the last couple hundred kids got candy. As always, Halloween in the Village is exhausting. So now the Holiday Season has officially begun! I will look into organic turkeys for anyone who is interested. Expect to hear more about them in the coming weeks.

I have some papers due in school in the next few weeks too. Here is an excerpt from my paper for the Ethics in Sustainability class:

A person’s Standard of Living is an economics term for the measure of ones income and ability to purchase the items desired. It is a measure of a citizen’s ability to consume. The term standard of living is not to be mistaken for quality of life, which also includes ones health, environmental quality, and social issues. One’s standard of living is the primary scale by which Americans judge themselves as better or worse off than others, but does not mean a person has a better “quality of life.” Yes, living sustainably may degrade one’s standard of living, but it will not necessarily degrade a person’s quality of life. People are repelled by the idea of living a “sustainable” life style because they immediately envision hard labor and the loss of material goods. However, studies have found the quality of life does not diminish until poverty levels. In some cases quality of life increases with more sustainable lifestyles. This is due to personal satisfaction with behaving in a sustainable way and working with others of a like mind...

More to come!

Enjoy! Marnie

New Computer! Help!!

All the updated programs ARGG!! Everything is taking me 10 times longer!! This will be brief, but soon it will be beautiful! When I figure this stuff out!!!

Alert of the Week: Safeguard Organic Standards!

The National Organic Standards Board...

... Votes for Factory-Farmed "Organic" Poultry

As we reported in the last issue of Organic Bytes, the USDA National Organic Program is only loosely enforcing animal welfare rules that require organic poultry farms to allow their birds to have access to the outdoors and "exhibit their natural behaviors." This has resulted in a wide range of farms being certified organic; everything from lush green pastures where hens roam free, scratching in the compost and nibbling greens, to giant sheds with tens of thousands of grain-fed birds that never see the light of day.

At its April 2010 meeting, the National Organic Standards Board had an opportunity to reform organic chicken and egg production by outlawing a synthetic feed supplement called methionine that confinement poultry producers have used as a crutch to help them scale up and keep costs down.

Unfortunately, despite thousands of letters from organic consumers who understand the nutritional and environmental benefits of pasture-based organic systems and are concerned about animal welfare and synthetics in organic, the NOSB voted to keep methionine on the list of allowed synthetics.

Tell the USDA: Stop Factory-Farmed "Organic" Poultry! http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=13184481

Enjoy!

Marnie

Thanksgiving Turkeys

Yes, it’s that time again! However, we are no longer with the supplier who sold us the Organic turkeys for Thanksgiving previous years and our present supplier does not deal in meat. I have sent out some inqueries to other farms and suppliers, and I hope we will be able to secure some. If you are interested in an Organic turkey for Thanksgiving please tell me so I can have a count. I won’t actually order them without running the prices by you.
Please remember to bring back your boat bags for refilling, we tend to get a little short of boxes. Thanks.

Core Truths on the Major Benefits of Organic Food and Farming
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- Organic often tastes better
- Organic produce contains, on average, 30 percent higher levels of antioxidants
- Organic farming can cut mycotoxin risk by over 50 percent
- Organic food dramatically reduces pesticide exposure
- Organic farms typically use less energy
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Enjoy! Marnie