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Molten Java Coffee Roasters in Bethel, CT is hosting Meet the Author with David Gumpert, author of The Raw Milk Revolution. Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 6 PM. Molten Java is at 102 Greenwood Avenue, Bethel, CT 203-791-9747 The event is co-sponsored by Relay Bookhouse (next door) and the Milkmen USA. There’s also a great [...]

In a post the other day about raw milk, I mentioned this small dairy farm in Canada being harassed by Fraser Health on a consistent basis. I wondered why people would take the time to go after small dairies (whose customers deliberately go out of their way to purchase raw milk) and asked, “Qui bono?” [...]

I drink raw milk and it fascinates me that there is so much controversy over this liquid that has been in the human diet for thousands of years. I don’t understand why the people who are against it simply don’t drink it and go on about their business. Why are they so hell-bent on trying [...]

I’ve been drinking raw milk for almost two years, predominantly from Stone Wall Dairy and Foxfire Farm. My natural foods store carries both of these brands and they are both consistently good, with excellent cream lines. I hadn’t been to either of the farms since they’re both a bit of a hike and the food [...]

The forage was simple this Saturday: Holbrook Farm in Bethel, where I scored: strawberries (from Pell Farms in Somers, CT) asparagus spinach green onions tomatoes (hot house grown at March Farm in Bethlehem) three-berry jam potted basil (from March Farm in Bethlehem) New Morning Natural Foods in Woodbury, where, among other things, I scored these [...]

The Hartford Courant blogged about the current debates going on about raw milk here in CT. It’s not often you hear a couple of nuns with doctorates stand up for the right to sell cow’s milk, but that’s part of what is at stake under a plan to limit the sale of unpasteurized milk. He’s [...]

Here in the great state of Connecticut (third smallest in the union), raw milk is currently legal. We can even buy it in retail stores that choose to carry it. Interestingly, those that choose to tend to be natural foods stores. Lately, there’s been some action to review and change the availability of raw milk [...]

Saturday was a fun forage…we went here, there and it seemed, everywhere! We began at the Bethel Farmer’s Market where I picked up numerous items from Newtown Cedar Hill Farm,  Maple Bank Farm, Don Taylor’s Farm, and Goat Boy Soap: We continued on to Blue Jay Orchards for some apples. (They don’t have Macouns yet.) [...]

I tried my hand again at making butter from raw milk. The trick is allowing sufficient time for the cream to rise. It’s not difficult and the butter was delicious. Here’s how I did it. Separate the cream from the milk. I poured the milk into this glass vessel, covered and refrigerated it for at [...]

Sometimes, life just takes you to wonderful places. We left the NOFA Conference and segued into our summer vacation: visiting friends and enjoying some down time in the great state of VT. I decided to pick up some raw milk at a farm along the way–well, slightly off the beaten path. This required us to [...]