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Bell returns to her roots
After playing in Europe this spring, Charlottesville native Mariana Bell returns home for a show at The Southern on...
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Sam Racul commented on Ian Record reads at New Dominion
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My cousin ships milk to Horizon Organic, which is owned by Dean Foods. They are not Aurora and were not involved in any of that legal mess. Horizon and Aurora are competitors, not partners. There is really some bad info out there.
tina kidd commented on Ian Record reads at New Dominion
Let's face it this was all about making a profit for Double H. If not he would have followed the rules or sold the pork from his farm. He could have processed the pork himself and sold from his farm and never been bothered. But once he started selling at city markets and to restaurants he should...
John Stansell commented on Ian Record reads at New Dominion
If they aren't following the hard fought rules developed by organic farmers, then they deserve to go way down. There is plenty of money right now in organics and lots of players who care absolutely nothing about organics are getting in by exploting the soft rules of certified organic. We had...
hpaul commented on Ian Record reads at New Dominion
I really want to be able to get a pork chop from Richard and Jean. If a I buy a button or a "hello kitty" sticker from them from for pretty much exactly the same price as it takes them to raise and process said pork chop and they throw in the pork chop for free are Richard and Jean subject to the...
kathryn russell commented on Ian Record reads at New Dominion
"Using the old labels was a knucklehead move on our part," admits Bean...
Acknowledging he mistake, and, if you get down to it, takig a sharpie and running a line through it would have been the expedient thing to do. The issue is not the labels, however. I don;t think anyone disagrees w/ that being...
susan barackman commented on Ian Record reads at New Dominion
Those who think the law did right in this case need to consider the crimes that will be committed under the USDA program called NAIS(national animal identification system). NAIS was developed soley for the benefit of corporate agriculture, but under this program those of us who own even one...
Allan Balliett commented on Ian Record reads at New Dominion
This sounds like the sort of story that I can normally get behind, but I certainly can't support a man who would say that his products were organically certified when they are not. "Waiting for new labels"? Wow! What other corners do they cut for their own convenience?
USDA organic certification...
Robinson commented on Ian Record reads at New Dominion
I thought small farmers were eschewing the whole "certified organic" labeling? I know of a lot of small farmers who refuse to certify themselves organic because it is extremely costly and the government keeps weakening the requirements for certification. I prefer to buy local and responsibly/...
kathryn russell commented on Ian Record reads at New Dominion
Having been to Double H numerous times I can attest to the fact that the piggies are there in abundance. Don't know about sheep, but I've seen plenty og goats about doing what they do best-reclaiming the land and cleaning up pastures. Don;t know who Bram is, but doubt that he perused the entire...
Bram commented on Ian Record reads at New Dominion
Having 29 years of farming experience I have this to say:
If you are going to be certified organic then you must follow the rules and pay the fees. I don’t care if you’re a big or small farmer, if you don’t you are giving all farmers a bad name. If a farmer can’t afford to pay for certification but...
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