Farm Dreams

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Podcast Episode 12: Raw Milk and the No-Poo Challenge

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In this episode we discuss:

Raw Milk: to legalize or not, what testing should be required, the myth of food safety, the impact on cost if stringent testing is required, a new petition to legalize the sale of raw milk;
Prepping Group - How many people would show up at your door ITSHTF, do you have a place to go in a survival or grid down situation, do you have enough stored not just for you but for your pets and livestock too;
Natural Health Group - All about the no-poo challenge, using baking soda, castille soap, soapwort, vinegar rinse, yucca root and other ways to take care of your hair without chemicas;
Dealing with FLEAS, trying essential oils;
Health Care - How and why to get coverage if you're a farmer/homesteader, high deductible plans for catastrophic coverage; and,
other exhilarating chit chat!

Tags: farmcast, fleas, food safety, podcast, raw milk, shampoo

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Comment by Toni L Brock on April 20, 2012 at 6:14pm: Hi Tim & Liz ~ I hope that copious amounts of people have thanked you for sharing your life experiences with us. After all, experience is the BEST teacher :) So thank you very much for ALL of the things you have taught me. Also, I wanted to share that I recently have found a source for local raw milk here in Oregon. My other half is quite uncomfortable and unsure about its safety. And to fuel that, 3 boys were diagnosed last week with e Coli from raw milk from another farm. So this podcast came at a great time for me. I, one hundred percent agree with your thoughts Tim. There are SO many foods that are unhealthy for us that the government completely endorse, but the slightest problem with small local farms is so magnified. I feel completely safe with our raw milk and am very greatful that I have the freedom and finances to acquire it. If for some slip of nature something happened and I became sick, I feel confident that sometimes things happen and that is why we have immune systems, right? Thank you both for all that you do. Oh, one more thing, I was in on the beta testing for Farm-Dreams, and I have to tell you - you guys have helped me get so much more out of this wonderful website. I don't mean to expose my complete ineptness for navigation of the website, but, it is true, I found so many more things I didn't know were there just from listening to the podcasts. Thank you !

Toni

Comment by Nick Duncan on April 23, 2012 at 11:34pm: I was raised on raw milk and have no fear of it whatsoever! I feel lucky that Idaho passed legislation protecting the raw milk industry in our state! Since 2010 when the law was passed, raw milk farms have opened up all over the place and are very successful, and there have been zero instances of ecoli or other diseases caused by raw milk. If everybody in their individual states got their local legistlators to pass laws protecting the in-state sale of raw milk, then the federal government would be powerless to regulate it as long as the milk doesn't cross state lines. Keep fighting the good fight, and Toni, the more you drink it, the less fear and apprehension you will have! Plus raw milk tastes better, is sweeter, and is better for you! Cheers!