Organic Farm Wisconsin Links

Straus signs supply deal with Correia

WEST MARIN – Straus Family Creamery is sustaining its organic growth in sales of dairy products with the addition of a Petaluma family producer to its group of certified-organic milk suppliers.

Amid a rise in artisanal butter, state to make it easier to get a buttermaker license

Bruce Workman is a Wisconsin master cheesemaker who has spent decades honing his craft and producing award-winning cheeses in Monticello. But if he wants to make some butter to add to his Edelweiss Creamery line of cheeses, he has to work under the supervision of his friend, Al Bekkum, and tend to 30 gallons of cream turning around and around for an hour or more.

Farmers make bold moves to go directly to consumers

Rather than sell the eggs they raise to a producer, who would in turn sell them to customers, Sara and Larry Raikowski decided to cut out the costly middleman.

New county strategy against sprawl: Help small growers stay on the land and supply urban farmers markets

With help from King County's Transfer of Development Rights Program, Snoqualmie Valley farmers John Huschle and Anna Davidson now own the property where they operate Nature's Last Stand farm.

For chefs, vacation is all play and some work

Curtis Duffy took off on a 1,200-mile motorcycle ride, and was surprised to find himself thinking about cattails. Danny Salgado talked pickling with his girlfriend's 93-year-old grandmother in Iowa. And Phillip Foss discovered the most ethereal doughnuts — in Ohio. And then he got fired. Chef vacations are an oxymoron.