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The Pursuit of Pleasure
“Edgar Smith, co-proprietor of Natural Pastures Cheese Company tells us how the Smith Family came to create their world-class range of hand-made artisanal cheeses including the unique Wasabi Verdelait…”
Listen to The Pursuit of Pleasure audiocast or listen to Edgar Smith’s full interview (MP3, 15 minutes)
www.dairyfarmers.org
The official website of Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC), the national organization representing Canada's 17,000 dairy producers.
www.eatwild.com/articles/superhealthy.html
Find out about the specific nutritional attributes and healthy benefits of cheese made with pasture perfect milk. The clearing house for information about pasture-based farming.
Fairburn Farm
Natural Pastures Mozzarella di Bufala is the only authentic Mozzarella made of 100% water buffalo milk from Fairburn Farms, home to the only Canadian herd of water buffalo.
Get Local
Get Local is a community of BC food producers, businesses, and groups
working together to promote eating locally in the Metro Vancouver area.
Get Local offers education about the benefits of eating locally, a growing
list of businesses that are producing and selling local food, and a wealth
of other resources to help you "Get Local."
www.stockmangrassfarmer.com
The official website of The Stockman GrassFarmer, Allan Nation's monthly periodical about the science and art of raising ruminants on pasture.
www.foodroutes.org
Food Routes connects you with local farmers throughout the United States who produce the freshest, tastiest food around. In addition, Food Routes provides information about local markets, and CSAs. They've got the bases covered. The site is also an excellent resource for information about the benefits of choosing locally produced, sustainably grown food.
www.factoryfarm.org
The focus of this website is to "eliminate factory farming in favor of a sustainable food production system which is healthful and humane, economically viable and environmentally sound.
http://iere.org
The Institute for Environmental Research and Education (IERE) is a non-profit organization dedicated to fact-based environmental decision making. IERE has a sustainable agriculture program based on farm environmental management systems that measure performance based on Life Cycle Assessment.
The Meatrix
The Most Popular Advocacy Film Online
Store Wars
Organic Trade Association, Film
Learn the Ways of the Farm
Eat Magazine
Bi-Monthly Newsmagazine: Epicure and Travel – The Good Life, Eat it Up!
Exceptional Cheeses Enhance Everyday Wines.
It doesn't take too much curiosity about wine and cheese before you "discover" expert food or wine writer’s "perfect pairings." Nothing makes wine taste better than cheese.
Courtenay Area Business Links
www.investcomoxvalley.com
Comox Valley Economic Development Society
www.comoxvalleychamber.com
www.valleylinks.net