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Getting GMOs Out of the Food System: Where Do We Go from Here?
Straus Family Creamery has worked for 22 years to ensure the organic label has integrity and is worthy of consumers’ trust. Part of that commitment to organic integrity means fighting...
Q&A with Straus Family Creamery: Albert Straus
By Tara Redfield, The New School of Cooking Straus Family Creamery, located in Northern California, was founded in 1994 and has now become one of the most well known organic...
Hughes Dairy Focuses on Cattle Health and Land Management
Dairy near Bodega Receives Luther Burbank Conservation Award Article and Photo by Rachel LaFranchi Richard Hughes is a first generation dairy farmer. It’s not something you often hear, most Sonoma...
The True Cost of American Food Conference Videos
The True Cost of American Food conference, which took place April 14-17, 2016 in San Francisco, brought together a wide range of leaders and interested citizens to address one of the...
Catching Rain for the Cows
Bodega Dairy Looks to the Sky for a Community Solution By Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District, et al. This article originally appeared in Farming for the Future:...
American Dairy Producers: Going Organic
By Craig Collins This article originally appeared in U.S. Agriculture Outlook on February 1, 2016. Reprinted with permission. By the time Albert Straus had earned his degree in dairy science...
Marin’s affordable housing crisis and the threat to rural communities
The town of Marshall, where I have lived and farmed all my life, is becoming a ghost town.
Sustainable silicon farming to defeat California drought
The drought on America’s west coast is taking its toll on the dairy industry as around 100 dairy farms now go out of business each…
Straus Family Creamery was first in U.S. to become organic
The leadership Straus Family Creamery demonstrated 21 years ago by becoming the first certified 100 percent organic creamery in the U.S. and the first organic…
