Can you build real food businesses with integrity?

It's a question often asked - as more and more real food and health products businesses get bought up or sell out and suddenly aren't so real or healthy anymore, or otherwise as they grow fall below their original standards and mission, can you build...

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Sep 19, 2025
Making farms work (despite government harassment)

A family we are friends with have decided to get out of farming just a week or so ago. They just couldn't make it work anymore. Who can? It's a good question. Can farms make it anymore, especially farms that aren't subsidized by public or private m...

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Jul 15, 2025
USDA closing small butchers (again)

The USDA is back to its usual antics... a common theme among local and regional butchers processors we know and use ourselves - including Joel's shop - is that the USDA loves to spend its time and resources harassing small butcher shops. For years,...

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Jun 03, 2025
Rogue Round up - updated website, upcoming events...

There's a lot going on in food and farming right now. A ban on cattle imports from Mexico because of the screw worm outbreak.Some artificial and synesthetic dyes being removed from the US food supply.A new possible surgeon general whose family openly...

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May 13, 2025