Mid-August, 2007 - ISSUE #11
What's Available??
I have provided a link on the website to show everyone what is currently available and what to expect in the upcoming months. I will also review it here:
Here is a list of what is available:
- * Salad Bar Eggs (from Pastured Poultry) - $2/doz.
- * Tomatoes - Rutger, Marglobe heirloom varieties - limited quantity
Items growing well and soon to be available:
- * Cantaloupe, Watermelon, Honeydew melons and Zuchini soon
- * Pasture raised broilers (by appointment only) will be ready Mid-November - $2.50/pound.
The August batch of broilers is sold out!
- * Pasture raised turkeys (by appointment only) will be ready around the middle of November - $3.25/pound.
Food, Health and Farming News
Restricted by the USDA
We have recently recived many requests about our farm.
I was somewhat surprised at the amount of responses for raw goat milk - we had to tell several families that they must look elsewhere, because we cannot supply their needs.
People are becoming more aware of what is happening to the "food chain" as promoted by the USDA, and no longer wish to consume the antibiotic, steroid and hormone-laden dairy products at the store.
Did you know that there is actually a breed of dairy cow that will not produce the purported 5 - 7 gallons a day, unless it is shot with hormones? And, due to the confined quarters in the 'factory farm" dairy, it becomes far too susceptible to disease, and must have the antibiotics just to keep it "healthy".
Yet, this is totally acceptable to the USDA. They will also allow big producers to pick unripened produce, laced with pesticides, herbicides, and/or has been genetically altered, truck it across the nation or the world - or allow imports from around the world, and let the general public consume produce that has no nutrional value, all because the big AG poducers tell them it is good business. And the USDA will turn its back, or delay, or even cancel inspections for the processing (spelled s-l-a-u-g-h-t-e-r h-o-u-s-e) plants so that the meat can be processed, packaged and sold.
Our own government has chosen money in its own pockets instead of "protecting" its citizens is against such things. We, along with many other small farmers have no desire to export our products to China - and we have no intentions of consuming anything FROM China. As small, local farmers, we just want to provide wholesome, nutritious foods to our own families and to the people in our communities - friends, loved ones, and neighbors. But this is becoming increasingly more difficult as big agriculture corporations move to a "global" market - and pay for legislation to hinder us from selling healthful items locally. Why take unripened, chemically laden food around the globe to sell, when there are opportunities to provide good, ripe, chemical free, wholesome and healthful foods to those living right in our communities?
Did you know that if your child wanted to raise an animal to show at the county or state fair, they would have to register for a "premise" ID, and have an RFID tag placed in the animal? They would also have to report that the animal was being taken to the fair, or other show, when it was taken, wen it returned, when it was sold, who it was sold to, or even when it died? All part of the national animal identification system - a "voluntary system" which forces all 4-H and FFA kids to register or they can't show or transport any animals that they raise.
To your Health,
PWeber
Weber Farms
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