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the clean-up at organic valley headquarters is under way.

it’s been just a few days after the fire at organic valley headquarters, but the clean-up ( and soon rebuild ) process is well under way. the parking lot is filled with yellow servicemaster fire and water damage recovery vehicles. the left (west) side from the red gambrel of the building is a total loss, [...]

after the fire, a good samaritan rescued the only truly priceless object from my desk at organic valley!

the day after the fire at organic valley headquarters some emplyees who had work areas that weren’t destroyed or in structurally unsound areas were let back into the building for a few minutes to gather “critical” documents. not wanting to be in the building for too long since there was a line of people waiting [...]

sure is hard to have the milk cow blues with all this support!

i’m still amazed at all the offers of support after the fire at organic valley headquarters, including this nice message from willie nelson!

after the fire at organic valley headquarters.

sadly, there was a fire at organic valley headquarters yesterday that damaged the west portion of the building pretty badly. luckily, kris and i were not in the building when it was evacuated around 4:10pm. i left at 4:05 in the rideshare van back to viroqua with my computer and phone to get prepared to [...]

ain’t no party like an organic valley 25th anniversary party!

as most of you know i work for organic valley, but you might not know that we’re celebrating our 25th anniversary and it was an amazing experience to celebrate with some folks from the cooperative at a recent trade show. it’s incredible to ponder all we’ve accomplished over the past 25 years as an independent [...]

YOU GUYS! I WON A GOLDEN UDDER AWARD!

it’s a long story. yes, i realize it’s not a dairy cow. BUT STILL! and the best part? i was i was wearing a fabulous boa when i accepted the award at the organic valley marketing holiday party. my only regret was being rendered literally, and uncharacteristically, speechless. and, wow, it’s totally weird how the [...]

we haven’t got any breeeaaaad!

some folks from organic valley went to the east coast after hurricane sandy and took a bunch of cheese and all the bread from the cafe on their way out town to make hundreds of grilled cheese sandwiches. of course, temporarily not having any bread was a very small sacrifice ( and all the more [...]

listening to raj patel speak in front of my three foot disembodied hand.

three years ago i took a picture of myself “stealing” peas from organic valley’s chief marketing executive’s employee garden. a few years ago, somebody from organic valley asked for pictures from the employee garden to be used in a presentation, so i gave them the picture with many others. it must have ended up somewhere [...]

sowing the seeds of a garlic harvest.

continuing our tradition of planting about a month later than you should, we finally got about 200 cloves planted in our organic valley employee garden. so if all goes as planned we’ll have another small mountain of garlic in about eight months for the third year in a row. also, friends and family may be [...]

tending to the cropp crop.

the garlic we planted last fall at our employee garden at organic valley hq [1] is coming in nicely! and perhaps we even have one of the nicer looking employee plots ( inside joke. we have at times over the years had a notoriously ill kept plot. )! certainly better looking than last year when [...]

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