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Lamb: Raised in Confinement

Sustainable farming is all about making choices to produce wholesome, healthy products that people can enjoy without sacrificing the welfare of animals or the health of the environment.
Most modern farming practices focus only on reducing the costs of production and ignore the costs to the livestock, soil, air, water, and human health associated with these [...]

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North Tabor Farm Shiitake Mushrooms

North Tabor Farm in Chilmark raises shiitake mushrooms that are truly sustainable.
North Tabor grows their shiitake mushrooms on natural hardwood logs in a forest setting. This type of production is called “forest farming” and it has become a popular way of growing shiitake mushrooms in the United States. Forest farming is not a requirement for [...]

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Farmers and a Slaughter Facility Brought Together by Michael Pollan: Food Systems Being Rebuilt in Healthy Human Ways

When I enter Lorentz Meats in Cannon Falls MN, I am greeted with a sign that reads:
“We cannot live harmlessly at our own expense; we depend on other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. The point is, when we do this [...]

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Salute to Raw Milk

Due to the impending hearing on Monday, May 10th in Boston, I have been compelled to create a special page on Living Local on Martha’s Vineyard and Beyond and dedicate it wholly to Raw Milk.
Salute to Raw Milk
Visit this informative page – learn facts about raw milk as well as the current political actions lying [...]

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