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Our organic half & half begins with premium organic milk and cream, blended to achieve 11% butterfat content. It offers a creamy and satisfying pure dairy taste that perfectly enhances your coffee or tea.
Thanks @lovinglog_ for capturing this beautiful shot!
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#WorldSoilDay reminds us to focus on the importance of healthy soil and sustainable management of soil resources around the globe. At Straus Family Creamery, we believe in carbon farming, a set of regenerative agricultural practices which remove carbon from the atmosphere and put it back into the soil.
These practices are critical to creating a healthier planet for all. To learn more about carbon farming benefits, visit our climate + farm page via our bio link.
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Whether you make your coffee at home with Straus organic milk or cream, or your go-to shop like @EquatorCoffees makes your order with Straus Organic Barista Milk, thank you for making us part of your daily routine.
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Who says you can’t enjoy organic soft serve in December? Not @superduperburgers! With classic flavors and organic ingredients, their cones and shakes will satisfy your ice cream cravings today and all year long. With every delicious bite, you support family farms in Marin and Sonoma Counties.
📸 @superduperburgers
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In this season of sharing, we are proud to support the Redwood Empire Food Bank (@redwoodempirefoodbank), serving the North Bay community.
#RedwoodEmpireFoodBank is the largest hunger-relief organization serving the North Coast of California. REFB covers Sonoma County to the Oregon border and serves more than 100,000 children, families, and seniors every year.
If you can, please lend a helping hand so that fewer people go hungry during the holidays. Head over to @redwoodempirefoodbank to learn how to donate this #GivingTuesday or to volunteer.
Find your local food bank through @feedingamerica.
📸 @redwoodempirefoodbank
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This #CyberMonday plan your holiday cheese plate with artisanal cheeses from our friends at @cowgirlcreamery.
Founders Sue Conley and Peggy Smith started the Northern California company with the dream of celebrating organic practices and supporting local, sustainable agriculture. Cowgirl sources organic, pasture-based, cow’s milk from family farms in Marin and Sonoma Counties, including #StrausFamilyCreamery organic milk supplier Tresch Family Farms.
We highly recommend Cowgirl’s selection of delicious cheese collections for gift-giving and home entertaining! Place your holiday orders by 11:59 p.m. December 19th to ensure delivery by the 24th. Head over to @cowgirlcreamery and click their bio link to visit www.cowgirlcreamery.com
Let us know what you ordered!
📷 @Cowgirlcreamery
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It’s #SmallBusinessSaturday!If you are shopping today, please think about a favorite mom-and-pop store that needs your support.
It is easy to #shopsmall and #dinesmall this holiday season! Here in Sonoma County, a great resource is the Made Local Magazine holiday issue. It is full of interesting stories and unique local gift ideas. Available at no cost in racks at your favorite local grocers.
You can also try their online directory: https://sonomacounty.golocal.coop/businesses/
📸 @golocalsoco
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We at Straus Family Creamery wish you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving.
We are thankful to all of you for supporting organic family farming and our mission!
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🥧 Are you looking for an easy-to-make dessert? Here is our favorite pie crust recipe from our founder’s mother Ellen Straus. The recipe includes our Organic Unsalted Sweet European Style Butter, which contains 85% butterfat content. Ellen created a thick crust that tastes a bit like shortbread, and it is the ideal base for any kind of fruit pie.
Time required: 20 min. + 40 min. for baking
Ingredients:
✨ 2 cups organic flour
✨1/4 cup organic sugar (or to taste)
✨2 organic egg yolks
✨1/4 to 1/2 tsp. salt
✨3/4 cup Straus Family Creamery Organic Unsalted Sweet European Style Butter
Directions:
Put the flour in a bowl, add sugar, egg yolks, salt and butter cut into pieces. Work by hand until you have a smooth ball. Then press it into your ungreased 10″ spring form. Make a bottom and sides with the dough. If you want to fill the crust later with fresh, uncooked fruit, then poke the bottom and sides with a fork and bake the crust by itself at 350 degrees for at least half an hour or until golden. 🥧
You can also make an Apple Crumb Torte by slicing apples (Granny Smith or Gravenstein apples work best) and laying them in the bottom and adding the juice of one lemon. Make a topping separately of a cup of flour mixed with three quarters of a stick of Straus Family Creamery Organic Unsalted Sweet European Style Butter and three quarters cup of packed light brown sugar and cinnamon to taste. Crumble the mixture over the apples and lemon juice and bake in the oven for at least one hour or until the top is brown and the apples are bubbling. Serve warm or cold.
🥧📸 @gourmandisela
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As you finalize those seasonal side dish and dessert choices and prepare your stuffing recipe this weekend for the Thanksgiving holiday, remember the farmers’ market and the Straus team!
You can find #TeamStraus at the North Bay farmers’ markets this week but with a slightly modified schedule:
🔴Saturday, 11/20: @santarosafarmersmarket, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 8:30am-1pm
🔴Sunday, 11/21: @aim_farmers_markets, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, 8am-1pm
🔴Tuesday, 11/23: Petaluma East Side, Lucchesi Park,10am-1:30pm
🔴Wednesday, 11/24: @aim_farmers_markets, Marin Civic Center Market, San Rafael, 8am–1pm (the Thursday market moves to Wednesday.)
🔴Thursday,11/25: no market
🔴Friday, 11/26: no market
Visit strausfamilycreamery.com for the regular schedule via the link in our bio. See you at the market!
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Did you know that the environment in which cows graze can impact the flavor of their milk?
The cows that produce Straus Organic Milk graze on sweet grasses in the unique, coastal climate of Western Marin and Sonoma Counties in Northern California, imparting a distinctive rich flavor in our milk, cream, and all of our dairy products.
Do you taste the difference? Share your thoughts in the comments!
📸 Cows on the Straus Dairy Farm during the spring season.
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✨Straus Employee Spotlight ✨
Meet Hector Perez, who has been bringing his warm smile and personality to Straus Family Creamery for more than two decades! He is the master of our reusable glass bottle line, ensuring all our delicious organic milk, cream (and eggnog!) products are bottled on time so you can enjoy them at home.
“Hector has been a dedicated, hardworking, and knowledgeable member of our Straus Family Creamery team for more than 22 years. I value his friendship, dedication, and his willingness to do what is needed to make the company a success and a positive place to work.” – Albert Straus, Founder and CEO.
Over the years, Hector has appreciated the committed support from Straus and his teammates, who have helped him through his life’s toughest challenges and most celebrated moments.
We know how much Hector loves #TeamStraus, but we love him more! 🎉Happy 22nd Anniversary! 🎉
Thank you, Hector, for choosing Straus every day!
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This weekend part of #TeamStraus spent Saturday morning volunteering at Redwood Empire Food Bank in our North Bay community. We enjoyed putting together fruit and veggie bags for grocery boxes in the fresh air while bonding with our teammates and other volunteers to help our neighbors in need.
All volunteers assembled more than 4,000 total bags of apples, squash, carrots, and onions in three hours. That is enough food for more than 9,000 meals!
If you wish to donate your time, money or any food to the Redwood Empire Food Bank (a member of Feeding America) or another food bank, learn more: @redwoodempirefoodbank
#EndHunger #REFB #BayArea #NorthBay #SonomaCounty #StrausFamilyCreamery #VolunteerDay #HolidayGiving #CommunitySupport
Here is more red seaweed news! Tap the link in our bio to hear Kathleen Davis’ interview on Science Friday (@scifri) with our founder Albert Straus, Joan Salwen of Blue Ocean Barns, and Animal Scientist Breanna Roque.
The interview dives into testing a specific red seaweed on the #StrausDairyFarm, showing that #dairyfarmers can reduce their on-farm enteric methane emissions & strengthen the economic viability of family farms.
#ClimateAction #CelebrateScience #StrausFamilyCreamery #BlueOceanBarns #AlbertStraus #DairyCows #SustainableAgriculture #OrganicFarming #CaliforniaOrganic #Cop26Action #ClimateGoals #ReduceMethane
You’ve been waiting in festive anticipation for nearly a year, and now it’s back! Straus Organic Eggnog returns to grace your grocer’s shelves through the end of December. What makes our eggnog the toast of so many holiday gatherings? Simple. We start with our premium organic milk and organic cream and then blend in the rest of the organic goodness – sugar and egg yolks, topping it off with a smattering of nutmeg. It tastes so good; you may forget to add the rum!
Search for Straus Organic Eggnog with our customized eggnog store list via the link in our bio.
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Thank you, Asa @greenzebragrocery, for choosing Straus Organic Ice Cream (and our eggnog) as your deserted island food choice! We are honored to be your number ONE!
Repost from @greenzebragrocery:
Meet Asa! 🍎🥕🌽🍅🥑🥒🍋🥗🍇
What's your job about?
"Produce & Floral Director: I focus on the bounty of offerings from farms down the road and across the West Coast, as well as the passionate farmers who grow them!"
If you could choose ONE food item to take with you to a deserted island, what would it be?
"Straus Family Creamery ice cream... but when in season, their eggnog is on tap at my house!"
What's your favorite movie or TV show about food?
"Where to begin?! Chocolat, Salt Fat Acid Heat, Ratatouille, Chef, Simply Ming, Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home, and so many more."
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At our founder Albert Straus’ dairy farm, we successfully demonstrated a dramatic reduction in dairy cows’ enteric methane emissions (cow burps), an average of 52 percent and as much as 90 percent, by supplementing cow feed with a specific red seaweed (Asparagopsis taxiformis) during a recent 50-day commercial trial.
This red seaweed is a crucial step in reaching #AlbertStraus’ goal of a carbon neutral farming model on the Straus Dairy Farm in 2023.
Watch our video to hear from our founder Albert Straus, Joan Salwen of Blue Ocean Barns, and UC Davis Animal Scientist Mallory Honan.
Visit www.strausfamilycreamery.com to learn more!
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A group of 24 dairy cows on the Straus Dairy Farm were part of the first commercial trial in the United States to determine how adding red seaweed (Asparagopsis taxiformis) to their diet cut down on the amount of enteric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, that is released in cow burps.
“We validated what the research had shown and did it in a real trial that was relevant to dairy farms across the country — actually throughout the world,” said Albert Straus, founder and CEO of Straus Family Creamery, which sponsored the trial with Blue Ocean Barns, a company that grows red seaweed in Hawaii and San Diego.
Tap the link in our bio to read about the study results and climate impact in Tara Duggan’s article via @sfchronicle.
✏️@taracduggan
📸Alvin A. H. Jornada @alvinjornada
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