Local Jo’s

Here’s where I pick up my raw milk, raw cream, raw butter, and healthy eggs here in South Carolina.

This store is about 10-15 minutes from my house. (Local peeps, it is at the end of Rifle Range, where it meets Ben Sawyer Boulevard., on the left in the Oyster Park shopping center.)

The Milky Way Farm raw milk is local and comes in every other week on Wednesday. The raw cream and butter from Pennsylvania comes in late in the day on that same Wednesday. Note, in Pennsylvania, these products have to be labeled for use for dogs and cats–and that is a political fact that shows how industry has been able to control what we eat by creating fear about a natural food that people have consumed for thousands of years. Note that Maine allows the sale of raw dairy and has for a long time–without problems. I believe South Carolina does as well. But there are different laws in different states. All of these raw dairy products are rigorously tested for any problems.

I absolutely thrive on raw dairy products and have for decades now. I feel so lucky that I can obtain them here in South Carolina. Note that the very best time to buy raw butter is in the spring when the grass is fresh. The spring butter is a deep yellow color, unlike the winter butter. I try to buy some extra to freeze for the winter, but I don’t have much freezer space here, and I’m hesitant to stock a small freezer in the garage–hurricanes and power outages, you know. And it is easy enough to shop frequently here.

Way back when I started this blog–and after getting to Maine and researching food issues for various complicated issues of my own–I tried to read for folks too busy to research for themselves and to post what I was learning on the blog AND to publish informative essays in the local paper for my community to read. Over 40 essays were published, and they are all here on the blog.

One of the books I read fairly early in this effort was THE UNTOLD STORY OF MILK by Ron Schmid (2009). Starting in April 2010, I wrote three essays around this book and my own life experiences with raw dairy. They are the Mainely Tipping Points essays 6, 7, and 8. If my links below do not work, just search on the title of the book. I, myself, had trouble getting to these essays as the blog is old, and I often have trouble getting back to early essays until I figure out what search words to use.

https://wordpress.com/post/louisaenright.com/63

https://wordpress.com/post/louisaenright.com/66

https://wordpress.com/post/louisaenright.com/68

It is so, so important to constantly read food labels–because they change all the time, as does the meaning of various words used in labels. And it is important to know the history of many foods in order to make good choices that will keep you and your loved ones healthy. And to know what constitutes an objective scientific study that is valid and what is just industry advertising all dressed up as something useful for you.

Question…everything.

Raw dairy was one of the many food places where I started to transform my life and my health, so I took this little trip down memory lane as to why I took this direction.