Below are a a few ideas for lightening up your menus for the the warmer months ahead using yogurt! Why is yogurt a refrigerator staple? Keep plain yogurt in your refrigerator and you’ll have a versatile ingredient that can help you shave calories while adding much needed protein, calcium and beneficial probiotics. Yogurt can be used in the …
Have you ever wandered down the aisle of your local grocery store and come across products proudly displaying the phrase “Member-Owned”? Have you heard the word “co-operative” and wondered what, exactly, makes a “co-op” different from other types of businesses? Co-operatives or, “co-ops” have a long and rich history as business and organizations world-wide, and …
Dairy farmers work hard to provide wholesome food for our communities, but for many American families, keeping healthy food on the table is a struggle. As a farmer, I’ve come to realize we need to do more than simply produce nutritious food, we also need to work harder to make sure everyone in our community …
Valentine’s Day is a day to celebrate our loved ones with chocolate, candy and cheesy cards, but it also falls in the middle of American Heart Month, a month dedicated to raising awareness about heart disease. In America, heart disease remains the number one cause of death and nearly one in three people have high blood …
What makes Milk House Chocolates in Goshen, Connecticut so special? Must Be The Milk! Have you ever heard of single-cow-origin chocolates? At Milk House Chocolates at Thorncrest Farm, Kimberly Thorn crafts certain flavors of chocolates with the milk from individual cows! Most importantly, they can ship their chocolates directly to you! Thorn says she discovered the …
Maybe you’ve noticed a new carton of A2 milk next to your go-to choice at the grocery store. Or maybe you read something about A2 milk in a magazine. But what is it? Below, you’ll learn more about four questions: What’s the difference between lactose intolerance, milk protein allergy, and dairy intolerance? What are A1 and A2 …