Amen, Jack!

Jack knew what's what! Rest in Peace.

here a goat, there a goat...

last saturday, a coworker, boyfriend and I visited a local raw goat milk dairy, St.John's Creamery. http://stjohncreamery.com/index.html it took only ten minutes to get there. and it was at the end of a normal looking neighborhood street. Marcia St.JOhn, the owner was very nice and showed us all around and introduced us to her animals. the goats where very quietly and friendly. she calls them all by name and they come running.



i took a lot of pictures, which you can see at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2062124&id=27500177&l=88b955acc3

i shot a little video:





i missed the part where marcia was talking about a clinic in the 20s and 30s that took patients that had TB and such, and put them on an all raw milk diet, and they all improved, even after medicine hadn't done anything for these people. the doctor was then convinced that food is the key to health.

there has been a mutation in Holstein cows, in australia i think she said, in the casein protein has started to cause autism and diabetes in children, both rising helth issues. so when it was found, the changed the genetic stock of their cows. this was 3 years ago, and most of the USA has never heard of this.

info tidbits:
the currently USDA leader thinks that raw milk is a human pathogen. it's a shame that the government is so overprotective of the people's health that it usually ends up hurting them.

I didn't know that goat milk burns alkaline in the body, but cow milk,even raw, becomes an acid. goat milk also doesn't cause phlegm in the human body like cow milk does.

the udders on the goat are separate, closed systems. milk doesn't flow from one side to the other.

you can keep milking a goat doe for a long time after she has a kid, years even. of course the milk will slow down in the winter, but it can come back in the spring ,even without a new kidding.



i asked marcia why there is no raw butter and yogurt. selling them is illegal right now. the yogurt is probably because it's harder to control the bacterial growth when you don't start from a pasturized clean slate. butter on the other hand.. marcia said when you separate out the cream, you are taking out the milk sugars (which bacteria feed on) and you are using the milkfat. so it should be pretty safe since you've removed the part the bacteria feed on.


she gave us free samples of milk. i can taste the similiarities between goat butter that i had in the past. i know tht when people hear "goat milk" they think os something stinky, gooey, or maybe even chunky! but it's very much like cows milk, but with a slightly different taste.

"Taste these eggs"

i edited this clip cause it is two of my interests in one! Seinfeld, and chicken welfare/egg quality.

enjoy!

Fuzzy brown balls.

The story of the kiwis.

the box of overipe fruit i bought for three or four dollars.

i think there was like 30 kiwis in there.

i just sliced off the top and bottom, and cut in half

i love the bright jade color


time to JUICE!
( i tried to turn the sound way down on this, since it's just loud juicing motor noise. I feel like this is some kind of fetish porn for people who REALLY like juicing.)


after all those kiwis, i ended up with a lot of juice



and a lot of the rest.(seeds, skins, fiber..)



which i made into a crucnhy fruit leather right away



it turned a brown color as it oxidizes, but still good of ,course.

the rest went into the freezer until i could find another use for it.


so i've been thinking about moving soon, and thus cleaning out the freezer. so i looked for kiwi heavy recipes. and there were some for fruit leather. since i don't really want to drink all this sour juice, i thought i'd try dehydrating it. it's not entirely liquid, more slushy. we'll see what happens. maybe it'll all evaporate away and i'll be left with nothing. i added about two tablespoons of sugar to that middle size container of juice (thawed) and put it on plastic wrap in the dehydrator.

science!

juice on the plastic wrap



dried leather. it was sweet enough and sticky and tasty. even my boyfriend said it was yummy.


when i tried it a little too long, it became brittle.
it loks like stained glass.

SongCroft

This post is way overdue since this event was on 10/10/10. SongCroft is a very small family farm. more like a house with a large garden, lots of pets, and a forested field. the couple teaches small groups of people to be more self-suffient, with gardening, canning, bee keeping, and animal care.
this event at song croft was part of 350.org, to raise awareness of greenhouses gases, and they celebrated withe a barter fair to encourage local trading and reusing, and a cider pressing of the fall apple harvests.
http://songcroft.com/
i really liked the place (wish it was my house!)

Ducks in a row


little boy at the cider mill. Raw apple cider for all!



broccoli


chard , i didn't realize until now that their dog, Willow, is in this picture.



Sweetie Dairy goats. Raw milk right in their back yard!









Chickens! i think they have 43!






Bunny that lives in the greenhouse

return of the cashew cream

after enjoying the Onion Cashew cream on my meal at Thrive, i found a recipe online and tried making it myself. i don't know if this is the exact recipe they used, but my attempt turned out alright.

http://hi-rawkus.com/recipe/onion-and-herbs-cashew-cream/
2 cups raw cashews (preferably soaked for one hour)
1/2 cup pure water
3 tablespoons fresh-squeezed lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon raw apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons Vidalia onion, chopped small
1 level teaspoon Herbes de Provence
1/2 teaspoon Celtic sea salt

i made a few changes, i just used as much flesh and juice that i could get out of one medium lemon, it was probably 3 tablespoons or less. i used a pinch of rosemary and two dried basil leaves for the herbs. and i used my homemade kombucha in lieu of apple cider vinegar (they taste very similar), and a plain yellow onion. i had to use a blender, which is probably why mine was a little less creamy(more granulated) than the restaurant version.

i used it as a dip with some of my dried zucchini chips(flavored with taco seasoning)



i still have plenty left over so it will go on more meals.

this is another recipe from this website that i'd like to try.
http://hi-rawkus.com/recipe/superfood-chocolate-banana-pudding/


i watned some juice tonight. i haven't used the juicer for a few weeks, but i was especially inspiried after seeing this!:



:D

i remember that juiceman's eyebrows from all the infomercials i watched as a child.


i wonder if there is any truth to this Eugene college students story of his:

i dream of meat

i dreamed i was at a summer camp and a bunch of people were eating some lunch and i came along and they said , "hey, have some food we got alot of stuff here..."
and i know i ate a tiny burger and maybe some chips. i thought nothing of it until later in the dream i came to the realization. "woah, i'm supposed to be eating raw! what did i eat that for? i was eating on auto-pilot." so even in a dream i was aware of the diet that i've only been doing for 3 days now. hehheh.



a video of me making my breakfast: