As it stands, there will be no more raw milk allowed in California next month. I'm really upset about this because I drink raw milk every day and use it to make Kate's homemade baby formula ( Read more... )

I got chewed out by the pediatrician today for telling her that I wanted to postpone Kate's vaccinations. She lectured me for what felt like an hour (but was probably 10-15 minutes). Then she made me sign a document that basically said that I am choosing not to vaccinate and that recognize all the DANGERS of not vaccinating ( Read more... )

The NY Times reports:

THE Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has decided that consumers are too dim to make their own shopping decisions. Agriculture officials in Ohio are contemplating a similar decision ( Read more... )

I'm exhausted! I just had an 11 1/2 hour day. Kate woke up at 5:30. I tried to put her back down but she didn't want to go back to bed so I just stayed up with her ( Read more... )

Here's a radio broadcast of an interview with Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures and Ron Garthwaite of Claravale Dairy Farm -- the only two dairy farmers in California selling raw milk, talking about the future of raw milk, seeing how a bill was just signed to make it illegal to sell raw milk in California as of January 2008 ( Read more... )

Just one more item... an interesting article:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/20/FDG7LL5N221.DTL

Excerpt:

They're just a few of the growing number of farmers and ranchers who are experiencing a surge in demand from ( Read more... )

I'm bone tired. Too tired to even watch House Hunters ( Read more... )

TeenScreen is an organization that is interviewing kids as young as nine years old in an effort to prevent teen suicide ( Read more... )

Tonight Sarah and I went to our first local chapter meeting for the Weston A. Price Foundation (http://www.westonaprice.org/). It was a "fermented foods potluck" in an upstairs room at the Wild Oats in Santa Monica ( Read more... )

I am watching a very interesting video on YouTube: "How to Get Fat Without Really Trying ( Read more... )