A new lawsuit against the National Park Service is attempting to ensure the long-term viability of agricultural land in the Point Reyes National Seashore.
Ranching families commit to keeping agriculture in Point Reyes

A new lawsuit against the National Park Service is attempting to ensure the long-term viability of agricultural land in the Point Reyes National Seashore.
The Tresch family’s land stewardship, conservation and environmental ethic have earned them Sonoma County Farm Bureau’s 2025 Luther Burbank Conservation Award.
Straus Family Creamery welcomes Bordessa Family Dairies to its network of local organic milk suppliers
Straus Family Creamery founder Albert Straus shares a perspective on protecting sustaining agricultural land in Point Reyes National Seashore.
Straus Family Creamery founder Albert Straus was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times in an article about the battle to keep historic dairies and cattle ranches in Point Reyes National Seashore. Article by Jessica Garrison POINT REYES STATION, Calif. — With fog-kissed streets featuring a buttery bakery, an eclectic bookstore and markets peddling artisanal cheeses crafted from […]
Read Founder Albert Straus’ opinion piece on the removal of dairy farms in Point Reyes National Seashore.
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media This summer, Grounded Capital, a San Francisco-based SEC-registered investment advisor, has made back-to-back investments to support sustainable food production in the United States. These included a $22.5 million investment into Lotus Foods coupled with a new equity investment into the Straus Family Creamery in June and July, respectively. Grounded Capital, which […]
Straus Family Creamery in Northern California is a leader among the newer generation of American yogurt makers.
Watch the Food Navigator USA interview with our Founder Albert Straus at Natural Products Expo West.
I recently tasted California-based Straus Family Creamery eggnog and I am a convert.
The ice cream of your childhood dreams is deliciously reinvented at Coucou in Venice, California. The oversized vanilla soft serve is a twisted updo of Straus Family Creamery ice cream served in a celery green parfait glass.
Straus Family Creamery is included in World Wildlife Fund (WWF)’s new report. It examines the efficacy of rewards for climate-smart on-farm practices in getting suppliers’ help in eliminating Scope 3 emissions.
For several years during the drought, environmentalists criticized the National Park service for its management of a Tule Elk reserve at Tomales Point in western Marin County. But recently, a change was announced to the management plan that has the entire region up in arms.
There are a lot of firsts in Albert Straus’ farming history. Straus Dairy Farm was the first certified organic dairy farm west of the Mississippi River, and Straus Family Creamery was the first certified organic creamery in the United States.
You’re strolling the aisles of your local market. You arrive at the cool, glowing refrigerator cases of the dairy section, poised to make a quick decision about what you’ll pour into your next glass of homemade boba or rich batch of pots de crème.
Organic dairy and other livestock farmers are seeking emergency federal aid as they grapple with skyrocketing organic feed costs, steep fuel and utility expenses as well as the consequences of drought in many parts of the country.
One agricultural customer that chooses to pay for clean energy on its utility bills is Straus Family Creamery.
Straus Family Creamery founder and CEO Albert Straus isn’t waiting. He plans to incorporate Brominata into the everyday diet at Straus Dairy Farm by the end of 2023, part of his goal to make the farm carbon neutral by that deadline.
Milk is familiar to most of us. Not just a drink for children, it’s also often consumed by adults and is of course one of the key ingredients at cafés. But you may be unfamiliar with the processing that milk undergoes before reaching the market, and one such process is homogenization.
After decades of growing demand, drought and a far-away war are laying low local organic dairy farmers and processors. Without cash soon, it’s feared several local dairy operators may soon close up shop.
When it comes to climate change, cows have taken a reputational hit. These belching bovines have been villainized for releasing methane, a greenhouse gas with more than 25 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide.
The Straus Family Creamery, an organic dairy producer in Marin County, California, made headlines last fall after receiving approval from regulatory agencies to conduct a trial of a new seaweed-derived feed additive called Brominata.
If you are eating “animal-free” dairy or meat products that taste nearly identical to a traditional animal product, you should be asking plenty of questions.
And more often than not, what you will discover is that these foods are anything but “natural.”
Thousands of dairy farms worldwide have worked to reduce carbon emissions over the last few years, if not for much longer, but only 4 have made a public commitment to being carbon neutral by a given date.