Organic foods - which might be worth the extra $

Fin29- If you feel comfortable posting it, where are you in Maine? We are on the NH seacoast but have been looking at land down east for years. Passed on buying a farm in Freedom, ME two years ago (I know- Freedom is not downeast).

Can you stand another link?

http://www.mercola.com/2003/jul/23/organic_food.htm

If you're not familiar with Dr. Mercola you may find him interesting, and his website is a wealth of information!!

Sorry to disagree, Debitaber, but our butter is deep, dark yellow, and it comes from our organic grass fed jersey cows. It's somewhere between the color of a buttercup and a new york taxi. And no, we don't add any color. Perhaps someone will correct me on this, but I believe the pretty color comes from the fact that jerseys and some other breeds don't fully metabolize beta carotene, which is available in green feed, like grass.

[QUOTE=debitaber]I grow ...goats for milk and cheese and butter. all butter, from organic animals, is very light in color, it is almost white. If it is dark yellow, it has been colored. butter is goingto be about a half shade darker than he milk it comes from, you can't take white milk and get dark yellow butter."

I think Farmy is right. Jerseys and Guernseys aren't as efficient in converting carotene into Vitamin A, so that unconverted carotene ends up primarily in the liver, but also shows up as the yellow in fat and milk from these cows.

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I'm one of those folks who feel that the term "organic" was hijacked by big business and big government. We could easily pass the requirements other than our unwillingness to do the paperwork and play the games. We now use the descriptors "natural", "local" and "no pesticides/herbacides used". So far, our best way of people knowing how we do things is that all of our customers come to our back door or have met us personally and can ask us questions. I expect over time folks who think like myself will come up with some other term to describe what we do..... and I expect as soon as it starts to mean something big business will hijack it as well.

But just to point out, by legal definition (federal law), all farms which use the term organic must be certified unless they sell less than $5,000 of products (gross revenue).

Mike