Locavore Brunch

Today was the last day of class as well as our locavore lunch.  There was a great spread, all types of local (and some not so local) foods.  I definitely ate too much food, I was stuffed by the end, but it was all so good.  I also discovered how much I like kale, which I had in an awesome kale salad and kale chips.  Overall, this quarter in community nutrition was a great experience!

Dairy Farm Tour

Today we went to the dairy farm in Pomeroy. It was the Holter Holstein Farm, we also had a representative from the American Dairy Association take us on the tour.  The farmer and the American Dairy Association representative discussed that the farmers pay fifteen cents for every one hundred pounds of milk produced at their farm is paid to the American Dairy Association.  The farm is family owned and operated by family and local workers, many of which are local students.  The farm was surprisingly clean to what I would have expected from a farm with that many cows on it.  Even more surprising was that the smell was not bad at all.  I was surprised at how modern the facility was, I didn't realize they had it all mechanized and the cows wore radio tags to get the appropriate amounts of food.