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Dairy Farming

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    Food Producers Join Bars and Restaurants at Voracious Tasting Next Week

    Hormone-free milk from Pete Ellis' 80-year old dairy farm in Kent may be delicious, but it's a hard sell when free booze is flowing. Ellis next week is returning to the Voracious Tasting at the Paramount Theater to promote his dairy products and home-delivery service, and says he's ready for a crow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Region's Newest Cheese Maker Bullish on Sheep

    Many cheese makers prefer not to work with sheep since the wooly ovines don't give milk year-round, but Clinton dairy farmer Lynn Swanson appreciates the seasonality of sheep milk production. "My family was all cow dairymen in Carnation," says Swanson of Glendale Shepherd, slated to become the regi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Which Pies to Eat During National Pizza Week

    ​Does the U.S. really need a National Pizza Week? In 1986, Ronald Reagan -- intent on distracting voters from the simmering Iran-Contra affair - thought so. Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng observed the first-ever pizza week by commissioning "Why I Like Pizza" essays from elementary school ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Dairy Cows Slaughtered by the Hundreds of Thousands to Drive Up Milk Prices, Lawsuit Alleges

    Seattle attorney Steve Berman says the scheme was simple. California dairy farmers would exterminate thousands of healthy cows in California, thus driving up the prices of milk, cheese, and other dairy products nationwide, and in turn making billions of dollars for the farmers.

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Kurtwood Farms (and Kurt's Book) Is as Sweet as a Camaro

    Just another day at the idyllic, pastoral Kurtwood Farms.​Sometimes when you're stressed, you just want to slow down and imagine yourself in a pastoral setting, with rolling hills, fruit trees, pigs, cows, and sheep. The grass is as tall and green as a hungover basketball player. Milk shoots r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Upset Driver Kills Himself After Killing Friend on Bike

    ​A group of buddies got together on Saturday night at an Enumclaw bar to celebrate their friend's birthday. At some point, the birthday boy decided to get on his bike and peddle to his truck, which was parked at the dairy farm where he worked. Except he never made it. On his way, the cyclist w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Got Milk? Tour Gives You an Opportunity to Look Like Hayden Panettiere

    ​In an effort to educate people on the nutritional benefits of guzzling milk, the National "got milk?®" Milk Mustache Mobile Tour is coming to the Woodland Park Zoo and Seattle Center from June 20 to 22. You can sample milkshakes and milk from local dairies and pose for celebrity-inspired M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2010

    Milkmakers: Cookies that Make Their Own Milk

    ​Emily Kane knew it was going to be difficult to return to her job as a finance recruiter after she had her first daughter, Isabel, three years ago. But she didn't expect this additional problem: Her milk production dipped drastically. Always a baker, she had heard of cookies that were suppos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2008

    Two Local Purveyors of Dairy Featured in The New York Times

    ​Emily Kane knew it was going to be difficult to return to her job as a finance recruiter after she had her first daughter, Isabel, three years ago. But she didn't expect this additional problem: Her milk production dipped drastically. Always a baker, she had heard of cookies that were suppos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2006

    The Organic Spin

    ​Emily Kane knew it was going to be difficult to return to her job as a finance recruiter after she had her first daughter, Isabel, three years ago. But she didn't expect this additional problem: Her milk production dipped drastically. Always a baker, she had heard of cookies that were suppos ... More >>

  • Food

    August 16, 2006

    Spilling the Milk

    Local markets charge into the national battle over standards for organic milk. Should you?

  • Food

    May 11, 2005

    By Cheese Possessed

    Pike Place celebrates the pleasures of milk in excelsis.

  • Food

    March 2, 2005

    No to the Needle

    Pike Place celebrates the pleasures of milk in excelsis.

  • News

    February 25, 2004

    Two Sides of Beef

    From a slaughterhouse to a vegan house, a carnivore seeks the middle path to ethical eating.

  • News

    May 28, 2003

    Journalistic Downer

    A KIRO-TV food-safety investigation merely exposes deficient reporting and vacuous alarm.

  • Food

    November 11, 1998

    Pricey butter

    A KIRO-TV food-safety investigation merely exposes deficient reporting and vacuous alarm.

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