Hello!

My name is Tom Harbold, and I've come to this group by a rather
round-about route... I ran across a reference to the "Campaign for
Real Milk" in an article in _Farming Magazine_ (David Kline, editor),
and from there found the website (http://www.realmilk.org) and
thence, the Price Foundation. Have done a lot of reading on there
since!

I have a strong interest in whole/natural/traditional foods,
traditional and sustainable farming, and related issues (I work as a
naturalist and outdoor educator), and have always been somewhat
suspicious of the government's food guidelines... as well as strongly
suspicious of mega-corporations, whether in the food industry (a
contradiction in terms?) or "industrial agriculture" (a definite
contradiction in terms!). I buy local and/or organic as much as
possible (read: when I can find and/or afford it), but hope someday
to have a small farm or at least homestead of my own.

Being notably fond of dairy products, and finding that the
information on raw milk "sits well" with me, I am particularly
interested in any information anyone can provide on the subject of
cow-shares or similar arrangements here in Maryland -- central
Maryland in particular (I live in Westminster).

Hoping I'm talking to people and not just air (this group doesn't
appear to have been active for about a year), I remain

Yours respectfully,

Tom Harbold

--

"Should we give up the kind of farming that has been proven to
preserve communities and land and is ecologically and spiritually
sound for a way that is culturally and environmentally harmful?"
-- David Kline, _Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer's Journal_
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Thomas H. Harbold P.O. Box 1537
tharbold@... Westminster, MD 21158
tom_in_md@... http://www.geocities.com/Tom_in_MD
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