I just moved to Columbus from the Cincinnati/Loveland area and I used to belong to a cow share program down there, but have been unable to locate one in the Columbus area. If you find anything, would you please post that info or contact me directly? I can give you my email address if that’s best. I looked on RealMilk.com and didn’t see any truly viable options. The Clintonville Community Market has milk from Hartzler Dairy which is pasturized yet not homoginized and comes in glass bottles. It may be the best option until a cow share is found. Not perfect, but I hope this is at least somewhat helpful.

-Kelsey

I, too, am new to the Columbus area and have been looking for a cow share program. (I’m up from Georgia where raw milk is still available, but must be sold with labels that indicate that it’s “for pets.” The legislature is now trying to pass a bill that will force producers to dye the milk gray in an effort to deter human consumption.) If either of you find anything new, would you please pass the message along? Thanks!

Vivian

THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF MODERN MILK

“In the whole range of organic matter, milk is the only substance purposely designed and prepared by nature as food.”

For thousands of years milk and its products have nourished mankind allowing for generations of strong, healthy humans. All of this on raw milk. Mankind would have died out or at least have turned away from milk long ago if it had been unhealthy.

Why has raw versus pasteurized milk been such an issue only in the last hundred years? Here is the story as related in Ron Schmid’s book “The Untold Story of Milk” (New Trends Publishing, 2003)

http://mysite.verizon.net/jsschleh/gardenhomefarm/id13.html

Try looking here. http://www.realmilk.com/where1.html
It has one location for Columbus Ohio, but not for raw. Not sure how close the rest of the options are.

Yup, I’m even a member. Their milk is good, but unfortunately due to stupid state laws they can’t carry raw milk which is so vastly superior to pasteurized for making cheese.

-DM

And forget that straw steer about using farm oxen to feed people. If the agribusiness bean-counters found a way to squeeze more money out of oxen than what they’re doing now, it would be USDA policy before your next meal.

Google has failed me completely. Do you know of any raw milk/cow shares programs here in Ohio that are anywhere close to Columbus?

thanks

-DM

Thanks to last minute “hallway negotiations,” Assembly Bill AB 1604 passed with unanimous consent during Ag Assembly hearings held on Wednesday. This will ensure, for now, the continued flow of raw milk in California.

http://organicpastures.com/ab1604_letter7.html

You cannot absolutely control quality. We have been conditioned to expect lamb in the spring and tomatoes all winter. Nobody tests batches of anything now. All they do is inspect procedures. The current system is designed to regulate the industrial scale production that the consuming public is ill suited to self regulate. We are just too far away from the source of production. The sort of small scale production we are talking about is easily consumer regulated because we can literally see it. The current regulations are simply incompatible with the way these small boutique farms operate.
It is not the processing that is the issue. The means of production result in a product that requires little or no processing to maintain safely. That being said the farms I purchase from conduct their own testing. Testing that government regulations do not require.

If you choose to look at it like that, ok with me. But, I don’t think you can blame the FDA for the industrial farms we now have. That’s just progress, we can’t farm using oxen and expect to feed everyone.