Next time you hear the phrase, "America has to feed the world.", you are free to laugh!  The truth of the matter is that America isn't even feeding it's own people.  Here are some facts from the USDA:  vegetable imports into the US have gone from $3.4 Billion to $7 Billion in just 9 years (between 1998 and 2007).  Fruit and nut imports have tripled in that same time frame from $5.5 Billion to $14 Billion.  The fact is that it is other countries that are feeding the US and the world.  Not America.  Why are we paying other countries to feed us when we can do it ourselves!

Also according to the USDA, if every American followed the dietary guidelines, this country would have to produce 7.6 million more acres of fruit, 6.5 million more acres of vegetables and 11 billion pounds more milk than what we are currently doing. 

Don't have the land for that?  Guess again!  We have plenty of agricultural land available, if only we would stop growing the billions of acres of corn and soybeans that are helping fuel our obesity epidemic, and are being wasted on ethanol production and start growing healthy fruits and vegetables and raising grass-fed pasture-raised meat. 

If we were to chop up all those mega-farms into smaller 80 - 640 acre farms, we could employ hundreds of thousands of Americans in jobs to raise, harvest, and distribute food to everyone in this country and have some left over.  Think of the people who could be put to work, raising barns, manufacturing and maintaining smaller, multipurpose farm equipment, growing crops, saving and processing seed, processing the crops and distributing them, working in true grocery stores, butcher shops, bakeries, etc. to sell that food locally to the people in their own community.  We could virtually eliminate unemployment in this country.  And in doing so, the people who are working on these farms and in the processing and distribution of these whole foods, would be much healthier because they would be active, getting exercise every day and they would be healthier of mind and spirit as they also reconnect to what really matters - this land and each person's community and neighbors. 

Please contact your local farmers and work this out.  Convince them to change over from mega-corporate farming to sustainable, chemical-free multicrop and multi-livestock farming methods.  Get actively involved toward making this change over.  Even if you just stop mowing your lawns and put in a vegetable garden and a few fruit trees.  You will see a health difference.  We need to start caring about ourselves, our health, and the health of this earth!  We can do this!!!

My husband and I are living proof.  We are in our 6th year of farming without any outside income source.  Neither one of us work off of our farm.  I'll bet you can't find a big corporate ag farmer that can say that.  They are relying on government subsidies and outside income - at least one to two jobs per household to keep their unsustainable farms afloat.  Those government subsidies come from your tax dollars.  We can spend those dollars better!  Let's start feeding America - now!

Thanks to all of you who stopped out to our farm store for the very first time in June to sample our meats and to purchase some.  We really enjoyed meeting you and hope you enjoy the meat.  Please come back again soon!

Well, June 4th will be our first Sampling Saturday in June!  I can hardly wait.  I have rearranged things in the farm store and found a really neat table to set up my crock pot and sampling supplies on.  We will be serving up Beefalo Bourguignon.  It is made with a beefalo roast and is absolutely delicious.  I served it up at a sampling at the Northfield Co-op a few years ago and it was a great hit!  Everyone loved it!
I look forward to seeing lots of people to try our meat and learn more about Beefalo and our farm.  Come see us on Saturday 6/4 from 10:00 - 1:00 and 2:00 - 5:00!
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