Thanks Tami.  Yes, farm fresh foods are rich with everything from wisdom to nutrients. I remember, clear as if it was today, the day that my daughter made a comment about milk coming from the store.  I told her it came from a cow, but, inquisitive child as she was we had to go through every step that the milk took before it came to our house. Into the big tank, then trucked to a factory, then pasteurized (and all sorts of other processing) then shipped somewhere else, etc......  and I really just wanted to stick with my original answer that milk comes from a cow. 

I was lucky enough to be born to a father who grew up on a farm, and spent a lot of my childhood on that farm, so i developed a taste for nutrient dense "real" food, but also a sense of how connected we all are to our food - in an ideal world.  They would never drain paint or anything else into the soil, because they knew it would wind up in the food they ate next season. 

In any event, we try very hard to get our food from local, traditional farmers. We're big on the local Farmer's Markets (which, in Seattle, are all over the place, all year round.)  We also get all of our meat and dairy direct from local farms (unprocessed.  our milk is unpasteurized whole milk from cows that we have personally met.)

I don't know where you live, but these are the farms where we get our meat, and I'd love to know where others do.  You can post to the Family Farming "cause" here on JUST CAUSE IT, and maybe we'll wind up with a resource that will help people everywhere find farm fresh food - filled with wisdom, soul and nutrition!

We get beef and lamb from Bradrick Family Farms: www.BradrickFamilyFarms.com
We get pork from Akayla Farms: http://www.akylafarms.com/
Our milk and cheese comes from Pleasant Valley Farm in Ferndale.  They don't have a website, but you can reach them at: 360-366-5398
dolorestrain@msn.com

In general, a great resource for finding farm-fresh food near you is Eat Wild: www.eatwild.com  i highly recommend it.

And, any chance we city slickers get to show our kids where food REALLY comes from and why it matters, we should take.  So we'll be at the Whidbey Island Farm Tour, and hope that many of you will join us.