Grow for Me Sustainable Farm and Teaching Center (previously known as Girl Farm) is now taking subscriptions for the 2009 season. This is a really great CSA program for quite a few reasons. First, they’re on a mission to train future farmers. Second, if Mother Nature is cooperative the share includes veggies, fruits and nuts. Third, program subscribers can also purchase dairy shares. And finally, they offer a range of basket sizes for all and special deals for students.
See the excerpt from an my mailbox below and go to GFMSFATC for more information.
"Hi all - as you may or may not know we are in transition from being a for profit farming operation to a nonprofit sustainable teaching farm and retreat. Currently we have placement for 25 new members for the 2009 season - memberships seem to go quickly especially the full season as our current members are still receiving fresh produce (cool weather crops, winter squash and root vegetables, and lots of greens) and of course the apples and berries were delicious this year - which is quite appealing considering the cost of food currently.
We look forward to another healthful season of bringing local fresh fruits and vegetables to your table. For those of you unfamiliar with a CSA and why it is a prepay program your dollars are directly used to add new crops (seeds, starts, and fruit, nut, and berries) to coordinate the largest variety and best and earliest and extended harvest your relationship to the farm purchased by your share allows us to organize and be prepared for the season.
Farmers rarely rest in fact planning is what has made us so successful and what we believe will be a promise to the future for generations. Won't you consider joining us?"
Showing posts with label Dairy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dairy. Show all posts
Sep 15, 2008
Want to learn what it takes to create or manage a cow/goat share program?
I'd desperately love to have a cow-share program in our area, but I also know it's not an easy thing for a producer to make happen. It involves legal issues and complications I can't even imagine, let alone understand. But now there's a way for consumers and producers to learn more about what is necessary to make these programs work. If you want to learn more it won't cost you anything but time.
A few weeks ago Bari, the local Weston Price rep, sent out information about an upcoming teleconference called Cow Share College and Goat Share University (I love the names). See the Cow-Share College flyer for more info.
I MUST GO! This is a series of three teleconferences; beginning, intermediate, and advanced. Each goes from 1:00 to 2:30 on consecutive Thursdays. The beginner class is on October 2nd, the intermediate class is on Oct 9th, and the advanced class is on October 16th. The classes have already been paid for and I can arrange space for up to 6 people to listen in and ask questions. If YOU FEEL YOU MUST GO, IT'S FREE.
If you want to get in on this great opportunity, contact me.
A few weeks ago Bari, the local Weston Price rep, sent out information about an upcoming teleconference called Cow Share College and Goat Share University (I love the names). See the Cow-Share College flyer for more info.
I MUST GO! This is a series of three teleconferences; beginning, intermediate, and advanced. Each goes from 1:00 to 2:30 on consecutive Thursdays. The beginner class is on October 2nd, the intermediate class is on Oct 9th, and the advanced class is on October 16th. The classes have already been paid for and I can arrange space for up to 6 people to listen in and ask questions. If YOU FEEL YOU MUST GO, IT'S FREE.
If you want to get in on this great opportunity, contact me.
Jun 14, 2008
Northern Nevada Goat farm rumored for sale
To Ginger (and anyone else who's interested),
Thanks for posting your possible interest in this property. The only contact information I could track down is this:
Oasis Farmstead Dairy at 3970 Edwards Lane, Fallon. The listed farmers are David and Joyce Nusz, and Steve and Mona Miller @ (775) 867-4683. Don't know if the phone number is still good.
I have a call into the guy who originally told me it is still for sale and will post any updates when he gets back to me.
Thanks for posting your possible interest in this property. The only contact information I could track down is this:
Oasis Farmstead Dairy at 3970 Edwards Lane, Fallon. The listed farmers are David and Joyce Nusz, and Steve and Mona Miller @ (775) 867-4683. Don't know if the phone number is still good.
I have a call into the guy who originally told me it is still for sale and will post any updates when he gets back to me.
May 2, 2008
Dairy products in Northern Nevada
Yes, it’s true! It’s been a few weeks since my last post. Why? Essentially, it’s because I got a bit stubborn. I refused to pursue any other unknown-to-me food source until I found a local resource for my favorite food group, diary. I was determined to write about local, sustainable milk, butter, and cheese available direct from a Nevada dairy to Nevada families. After months of searching I have to face it...there is no such thing in Northern Nevada.
In many places communities have found ways to develop programs that give consumers a fresh, local, farm-direct option for acquiring milk. Farm direct cheese, butter, yogurt, sour cream, and ice cream off-the-farm is less common, but milk happens all over the country. I figured there had to be something like this going on in Nevada...right? Nope!
Here are some of the things I learned over the last few months in discussions with people from the Nevada State Dairy Commission, Model Dairy personnel, and occasionally, people who live the Nevada ag-life:
Read NRS 584 to see the serious regulations that control diary production. Wow!
Cow-share programs must meet the same requirements as any industrial dairy that wishes to sell, trade or distribute raw milk. The law allows for the sale of raw milk if certain requirements are met, but no dairyman has met them because consumer demand is not enough to help fund the cost associated with requirement compliance.
Model Diary is sort of local because the plant is located in Reno, they obtain some of the dairy products from local dairies, which are available all over the Truckee Meadows, but the company is no longer locally owned. This could be an option.
Model Diary sells drinking milk grown on local dairies located in Gardnerville, Yerington and Fallon, which is then processed here in Reno. Look for the Model Dairy label or code 32-01 on the carton if you want to buy Nevada milk.
Horizon organic milk is a Model Dairy product but it comes from diaries located in other states.
Model Dairy drinking milk is from local cows. MD butter, cottage, ice cream, etc. is made from dairy that comes from other states.
Most of the milk we have access to usually comes from two breeds - Holstein and Jersey. Drinking milk typically comes from Holstein cows; cheese makers prefer Jersey for the high-fat content that contributes to cheesey lusciousness.
Some Nevada dairymen produce Jersey milk but it is shipped to California for yogurt production. If you want to make your own cheese try using Strauss Family Creamery milk, which still has the cream on top so makes a creamier cheese. My cheese-making friends say it works fairly well.
We lost our last goat cheese makers within the last couple of years. Is anyone out there looking for a new cheese-making life? I understand the facility is still up for sale.
At this point it seems the only way my family will be able to get fresh, unprocessed, all-the-fat diary is if we get our own cow. Pretty sure the HOA won’t go for that!
In many places communities have found ways to develop programs that give consumers a fresh, local, farm-direct option for acquiring milk. Farm direct cheese, butter, yogurt, sour cream, and ice cream off-the-farm is less common, but milk happens all over the country. I figured there had to be something like this going on in Nevada...right? Nope!
Here are some of the things I learned over the last few months in discussions with people from the Nevada State Dairy Commission, Model Dairy personnel, and occasionally, people who live the Nevada ag-life:
Read NRS 584 to see the serious regulations that control diary production. Wow!
Cow-share programs must meet the same requirements as any industrial dairy that wishes to sell, trade or distribute raw milk. The law allows for the sale of raw milk if certain requirements are met, but no dairyman has met them because consumer demand is not enough to help fund the cost associated with requirement compliance.
Model Diary is sort of local because the plant is located in Reno, they obtain some of the dairy products from local dairies, which are available all over the Truckee Meadows, but the company is no longer locally owned. This could be an option.
Model Diary sells drinking milk grown on local dairies located in Gardnerville, Yerington and Fallon, which is then processed here in Reno. Look for the Model Dairy label or code 32-01 on the carton if you want to buy Nevada milk.
Horizon organic milk is a Model Dairy product but it comes from diaries located in other states.
Model Dairy drinking milk is from local cows. MD butter, cottage, ice cream, etc. is made from dairy that comes from other states.
Most of the milk we have access to usually comes from two breeds - Holstein and Jersey. Drinking milk typically comes from Holstein cows; cheese makers prefer Jersey for the high-fat content that contributes to cheesey lusciousness.
Some Nevada dairymen produce Jersey milk but it is shipped to California for yogurt production. If you want to make your own cheese try using Strauss Family Creamery milk, which still has the cream on top so makes a creamier cheese. My cheese-making friends say it works fairly well.
We lost our last goat cheese makers within the last couple of years. Is anyone out there looking for a new cheese-making life? I understand the facility is still up for sale.
At this point it seems the only way my family will be able to get fresh, unprocessed, all-the-fat diary is if we get our own cow. Pretty sure the HOA won’t go for that!
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