Legal Defense Fund

The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is a 501 (c) (4) non-profit organization made up of farmers and consumers joining together and pooling resources to:

  • Protect the constitutional right of the nation’s family farms to provide processed and unprocessed farm foods directly to consumers through any legal means.
  • Protect the constitutional right of consumers to obtain unprocessed and processed farm foods directly from family farms.
  • Protect the nation’s family farms from harassment by federal, state, and local government interference with food production and on-farm food processing.

PROTECTING

  • Access to Raw Milk
  • Consumer Choice
  • Sustainable Family Farms
  • On-farm Processing
  • Direct-to-Consumer Distribution

FIGHTING

Their help has been invaluable to Wisconsin dairy farmers and the raw (fresh) milk drinkers of this state. Their Web site is www.farmtoconsumer.org.

Please, join or donate generously!

  • Certified Organic

    Certified organic means that a third party annually certifies that our operation never uses herbicides, pesticides, hormones, drugs (including antibiotics), synthetic fertilizers or genetically modified feeds.

    In addition, the ruminant animals must get at least 30% of their forage intake from pasture. (Ours is close to 100%.)

February Food Tip

Now is a great time to make deeply nourishing and satisfying bone broths.  Chicken stock pages yield about 1 cup of meat, along with the ever-so-versital chicken stock.  Cook the chicken stock bones about half an hour and remove the bones to cool enough to handle.  Pick off all of the yummy meat.  Then toss the bones back in the water with some apple cider vinegar (about 1/4 cup to 1 gallon of water), to simmer slowly 12-24 hours. 

Beef bones (the knuckly and marrow bones) can be simmered up to 3 days (yes – I said 3 days).  Strain and freeze.  You will be astonded how easy and delicious homemade soups are once you have bone broths in your freezer.

Membership Meeting March 9th

All members and potential members are welcome to attend our annual meeting, which includes a session on the Weston A. Price Foundation.

March 9th is a Saturday, and the meeting will be held at the New Holstein Public Library from 1:00 to 4:00.

After a short meeting, we will have a local herbalist talk about the art of lacto fermentation using nontraditional foods (ex. – burdock root pickles).  In addition, we well talk about issues affecting the farm in 2012, and the upcoming 2013 year.  There will be food samples and lively discussions.  No reservation is needed.  Hope to see you there!

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