Milk
Reading Time: 1.5 minutes Takeaway: We humans have a long history with milk and with good reason in many places, but many people may be intolerant of the sugars in […]
Category Archives: Animal Products
Farm & Food Friday
Hey, check this out–Chainsaw safety and free lunch over in Pittsboro this weekend! Come See the Face of Agriculture in Chatham County! Saturday, August 23, 2014 from 10:00 am […]
Farm & Food Friday
Fall Vegetable Gardening:Extending the Harvest Registration is required. Contact Pam Marshall at 641-2400 or pamela_marshall@ncsu.edu. Be sure to indicate class choice, date and location. Sun., Aug. 17, 4:00pm; Arboretum Education Building; 401 Ashland […]
Homeland Creamery
Reading time: 2 minutes Takeaway: Homeland Creamery in Julian is a multi-generational dairy conscientiously producing and selling milk, butter and ice cream, among other dairy products. Though they sell through […]
Tails of Dairying Do, Part Two
Where’s the milk come from? Same place as other mammals but with special names! Dairy cow mammary glands form what’s called an udder which has four teats that the milk […]
Tails of Dairying-do
My favorite joke from a trip to Wisconsin, motherland of cheeseheads, cheese curds and cheesy jokes, was “You can really smell that dairy air!” (Go on, say it out loud.) […]
Weatherhand Farms
Reading time: 2 minutes Takeaway: On land in Pleasant Garden held for three generations of Sharon Weatherly’s family, she and John Handler produce herb and veggie starts, cut flowers, chickens, […]
The Case for Sausage
You know that old saying, “Don’t ask how the sausage is made”? Well, I’m throwing caution to the wind and we’re going to dig in to the various kinds of […]
Firsthand Foods
Time to read: 2 minutes Takeaway: Firsthand Foods supplies North Carolina pasture-raised meat to multiple wholesale markets and starting soon, a CSA meat box. If you want a variety of […]
Eggsellent Ideas
Time to read: 1 minute, skimmable Takeaway: Easter eggs and egg salad (5 minute prep) are simple and fun. Eggs+Spring=Easter eggs If you haven’t dyed eggs in a while, you’re […]
Pineapples on Trees 