MOCA is the organic certification agency within Marin County’s Agricultural Commissioner’s office. MOCA was created and inspired by the community it serves: local growers, livestock producers, handlers, and consumers.
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For more than twenty years, CFS has been at the forefront of organizing a powerful food movement that fights the industrial model while promoting organic, ecological, and sustainable alternatives.
CDFA protects and promotes California’s $47 billion agricultural industry. California’s farmers and ranchers produce a safe, secure supply of food, fiber and shelter; marketed fairly for all Californians; and produced with responsible environmental stewardship.
PETALUMA, Calif., (Nov 3, 2022)—Straus Family Creamery, a certified organic creamery whose mission is to sustain family farms and revitalize rural communities, organized the newly formed group named Western Organic Dairy Farming Crisis Coalition.
Founded in 1973, CCOF promotes and supports organic food and agriculture through a premier organic certification program, trade support, producer and consumer education, and political advocacy.
San Francisco Examiner
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.
Inside Climate News
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.
Organic Insider
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.”
Dairy Global
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.
PETALUMA, Calif., (May 9, 2022)—Straus Family Creamery Founder and CEO Albert Straus’ goal of a carbon-neutral dairy farming model on his farm by 2023 is one step closer.
San Francisco Chronicle
California dairy farms will soon be able to feed their cows seaweed to fight climate change after the state Department of Food and Agriculture approved the use of a seaweed feed shown to reduce methane emissions from cow burps, the first in the U.S. to do so.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., and KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii, (May 6, 2022 ) — Blue Ocean Barns announced today that the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has authorized commercial use of the company's seaweed-based supplement as a digestive aid for cattle.
Progressive Dairy
Albert Straus, an organic dairy farmer in Marin County, California, made it his intention to look at how he could meet those goals and what it would take on his dairy farm to do just that. He wanted to be progressive, forward-thinking and a part of the solution.
San Francisco Chronicle
At a Marin dairy farm this summer, cows got a little something extra in their organic hay and alfalfa: a sprinkle of seaweed powder that holds promise for helping the state achieve ambitious climate goals.
PETALUMA, Calif., (October 27, 2021) — Straus Family Creamery’s founder Albert Straus and seaweed-supplement maker Blue Ocean Barns demonstrated a dramatic climate change solution, reducing dairy cows’ enteric methane emissions an average of 52 percent, and as much as 90 percent.
There's been a lot of conversation about dairy farming and its impact on the environment. Should we all be switching to alternative milks?
PETALUMA, Calif., (June 8, 2021) – Straus Family Creamery, the first 100 percent organic creamery in the United States, has moved its production plant from its original home of 27 years in Marshall to a new facility in Rohnert Park.
The Press Democrat
In his dungarees and rubber boots, Albert Straus looked every bit the dairy farmer that he is. On this particular morning, however, the 66-year-old founder and CEO of Straus Family Creamery was some 25 miles from his family farm.
San Francisco Chronicle
In 2021, an increasing number of water providers across California will be forced to prepare for water shortages as the state’s drought intensifies. For some locales, this could mean mandatory or voluntary restrictions on residential water use.
PETALUMA, Calif. (April 21, 2021) — Straus Family Creamery announces the evolution in a first-of-its-kind collaboration with BMW Group.
PETALUMA, Calif., (April 6, 2021) – As the nation’s hospitality industry and its farm suppliers move toward pandemic recovery, Straus Family Creamery reintroduces its Organic Barista® Milk product line after limiting production to a narrower assortment during the first 12 months of the pandemic.
Science Friday
When it comes to the bodies of humans and animals, there are a few functions that we’re usually discouraged from talking about. Specifically, the ones that involve releasing gas. (Yep, burps and farts.)
San Francisco Chronicle
Beef and dairy production are considered important drivers of climate change, contributing roughly 5% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, mostly in the form of methane released by cattle and other ruminant animals.