Food
What’s the Difference Between Pasteurized and Ultra-Pasteurized Milk?
What is pasteurization and why do we do it to our milk? Get answers to your questions and read more about the process here.
Farming
What Do Organic Valley Free-Range Hens Eat?
We get lots of interesting questions about chickens, but maybe the most-asked is the most basic. What does an egg-laying hen eat?
Organic
Cara Loriz: Protecting the (Often-Overlooked) Foundation of Our Food System
Today on Rootstock Radio Cara Loriz, Executive Director at Organic Seed Alliance, is talking about an often-overlooked and truly fundamental piece of our food and agriculture system: seeds.
Food
What’s the Difference Between White and Brown Eggs?
Is the difference between brown and white eggs getting you in a scramble? Here’s some over-easy answers to clear things up.
Farming
Amanda Oborne: Helping the “Ag of the Middle” Thrive
Farm infrastructures in the U.S. are designed to support either very big or very small farms, which leaves mid-sized producers—the “Ag of the Middle”—without resources or a market. Amanda Oborne of Ecotrust is supporting these often-overlooked farms in order to create a flourishing regional food system.
Cooperatives
Farm, Art and the Cooperative Spirit
We invited talented artists to paint jaw-dropping murals on an old barn. It turned out amazing, but a 500-year flood had different plans for this family farm.