Raw Milk

My sister is a great mother and she's so smart! In the process of trying to make things most healthy for her kids, she buys almost all organic foods. She also reseached the dairy part of a diet and found that the pasturization and homoginization of dairy product is not very healthy. I hate to think about all of the allergies and health issues everyone has now. (Could that really be a coincidence?) Anyhow, she and a few of her friends buy thier dairy and poultry direct from farmers. You should try the raw milk sometime! It actually tastes like MILK (unlike the grocery store stuff).

So I thought that I would check it out in New York state to see where I can get it. Well, the laws make things nearly impossible for these farmers, so its nearly impossible to buy raw milk in NYC. The farms that have it are about 3 hrs outside the city and its illegal for them to transport the milk to be sold. However, there's a network of people who bring it in from farmers in Pennsylvania, and so it may be possible after all!

If you're interested, you can join the Traditional Nutrition Guild -- a non-profit org that distributes raw dairy & organic meat products from farms outside NY State. Read all the many details here: http://www.wprice-nyc.org/ They have multiple deliveries in NYC during the week and on Sat. Yearly membership is $20.

If you're into it, but not THAT into it, you can always go to the Green Market on the weekends and buy meats and dairy direct from them! Union Square obviously has a Green Market, but so does Ft. Greene and Park Slope at the Grand Army Plaza (in the BK). In Union Square, try Hawthorne Farms' yogurt (best you've ever had) and raw milk cheeses -- Hawthorne makes raw milk as well, but are unable to bring that to the Union Square Green Market. And Ronnybrook's milk is only $2 for a bottle. Not bad at all. The meats are more, but well worth it.

I'd talk more about beef and pork, but Brandon doesn't eat that stuff, so we rarely (no pun intended) have it around the house.