Salon has a great article on a little-known story about the flaunting of the organic label by not-so-organic dairies like Horizon and Organic Valley. While the article is great, I have to admit that I’m a little disappointed in the lack of citation of resources for those of us who want to buy organic dairy but aren’t so informed as to know where to go (nevermind newly annoyed at Salon’s recent change to how their Day Pass works, or doesn’t as it was when I was forced to re-view the ad 5 minutes after doing it the first time).

That said, while buying goods from a local (and reputable) organic label would be most ideal, I’m not too sure where one would start - that is, aside from Googling a bit. For those who want a bit of a short-cut past that effort, I recommend Straus Family Creamery. They’re local to the Bay Area, but their products are also available in stores outside California and via some select home delivery services and mail order. Their products are excellent and can’t be recommended highly enough - cool little side note: they don’t homogenize their milk, so you can get it old-school with the cream on top like our parents did.

If the name sounds a little familiar but you can’t quite place it, this is the same dairy that got some press a while ago for building a methane digester to produce electricity from the manure from their cows. Can’t beat that in trying to make as closed-loop a solution as you can.