kris and odin have gone up to da u.p. a couple of days ahead of me in advance of what will hopefully be a fun celebration of odin’s second birthday with lots of family.

and sure that’ll be fun and all, but for now the house is empty and i’m trying to remember how to cook for one. which somehow seems harder than i remember and obviously i didn’t get very imaginative. but hey, thanks to the job and the company store discount the 100% organic pasture-grazed beef cost less than regular hamburger. if you’re a carnivore you might want to see if you can get organic prairie meat near you. and they really do give all their animals ( including chickens and dairy cows ) plenty of light and large grazing areas unlike some other organic operations:

“A different kind of organic dairy farm is emerging out west — corporate-owned feedlot operations with thousands of cows that are fed organic grain but, according to critics, get little chance to graze.”

“Fears that big operations will muscle out family farms have produced a backlash, including a boycott by the Organic Consumers Association against the country’s biggest organic milk brand, Horizon Organic.”

“The nation’s largest farmer-owned organic dairy co-op, the Organic Valley Family of Farms, based in LaFarge, Wis., says its 572 family-owned dairy farms nationwide already exceed the proposed standards.”