One Small Step for Family Farming, One Giant Step for Little Seed Farm

Sprout Creek Farm, Cheese Curds, Little Seed FarmSprout Creek Farm Cheese Curds - Photo by Sprout Creek's Georgie Blaeser
Big news on the Little Seed Farm front! Sweetbreads recently accepted an apprenticeship role at Sprout Creek Farm near Poughkeepsie, NY. We’ll be packing up and moving out at the end of November and she’ll be working on the farm for approximately 6 months. As we posted about previously, Sprout Creek operates a highly diversified farm (dairy, meat chickens, eggs, pork, lamb, goat, turkeys, etc), but really specializes in cheese. 

On our first Farm Hop to Sprout Creek we had a long heart-to-heart with Margo Morris, the founder. The entire time we were chatting I was thinking to myself
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Are You An Owner of Monsanto?

Courtesy of Greenpeace.
 
When we saw the movie Food Inc. at a small, nearby theater a couple years ago it really had a profound impact on us. This was around the same time we started “going organic” in our produce choices and Food Inc. helped to push us over the edge when it came to meats, dairy products, etc. What struck me as totally missing from Food Inc. was any discussion on how these massive food conglomerates continue to finance their operations and what you can do to make sure you aren’t a part of it. All of this talk about boycotting the industrialized food system with no focus on what keeps the wheels turning: MONEY
 
What most people don’t realize is that all of these big ag companies are “public”, which means you can buy and sell shares of their stock on a stock market exchange. If you have a diversified 401K or stock portfolio you may be inadvertently contributing to the success of the very firms you’ve chosen not to support.
 
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Give Your Friends an Eggucation!

the proof is in the yolk! Pastured Egg (above) Vs. Factory Egg - photo from thetastingbuds.com
Before Scrapple and I really started getting into food we thought we were doing a relatively good job with our supermarket choices. Hormone and antibiotic free meat when it was available at the store, organic produce when we could, and always free range eggs.  While our food was coming from the industrial system, we were convinced that it was superior to traditional industrial foods and that we were doing something positive not only for our bodies, but also with our dollars. Hopefully guiding the mysterious looming realm of the industrial into a new era of raising animals with respect and without scary hormones and antibiotics.  Oh how naive we were!  
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