Prayers and Donations to Southern Appalachia

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October 7, 2024

Our yard after the storm

Simply Grassfed, in case you didn’t know, is composed of two farms. Alpine Heritage Creamery, our dairy and creamery where Alvin Fisher and family produces the raw A2/A2 cheeses as well as the butcher shop that processes our pasture-raised meats are in Paradise, PA.

Burke's Garden Farm n the Southern Appalachian mountains of Virginia is where John Fisher and family raise all the meat animals.

Burke’s Garden, received 12 inches of rain in 2 days. Power is still out and cell service just came back on line.

The community is well prepared with solar and generators. The major freezer storage space for meats and cheeses is still up and running with no loss of food.

Folks in the community, have been juggling cleaning up fallen trees on sheds, roads, power lines, drying out household items from the flood waters, and keeping the animals from escaping through broken fences, rotating them to new pastures, and fed.

Western North Carolina is one of the larger regions Simply Grassfed and Miller’s Organic Farm have served, with drop offs in Asheville of hundreds of pounds of meat and dairy to around fifty families every 2 weeks for over 20-years.

The eye of Helene stalled out over Asheville. Surrounding counties received 33 inches of rain in 2 days followed by high winds and tornadoes. National Guard and Rescue teams are presently doing search and rescue missions.

There are a couple of our families we still have not heard from.

The Interstates coming into the area are closed from all directions except the South. I just got word that the East entrance has just been opened up during non-curfew hours. Airdrops are being made with supplies to shelters. Most homes are out of power, internet, mail, and water. Cell service is spotty. Electric is not expected to come back on for weeks and water and sewage needs to be rebuilt which will take months.

Many of our customers in the Asheville community are just like you in other areas of the US. Asheville has a strong Weston A. Price Chapter and many Primal Dieters. They value real food and require this food to keep themselves and their families healthy.

Wednesday, we loaded up and managed to get into Asheville to deliver meat, dairy and fuel to 20 families. It was so heartwarming to see friends' faces and give and receive big hugs. Some families have left the area. We will make this trip again next Thursday to hopefully delivery supplies to more families.

This Fall, Southern Appalachia which depends on tourism from nature-lovers who cherish these forests and majestic water ways, especially during the beautiful leaf-changing season will be physically, emotionally, and financially devastated and many local businesses will be closed for some time.

Western North Carolina, which has been a refuge, out of reach of natural disaster, a place with clean air, clean water, fertile soil, a strong local economy, a mecca of sustainability and the back to the earth movement is being challenged to its core.

An engineer friend of mine calculated that this is not a 100-year flood which the city was designed to withstand, rather a storm that the area has not witnessed for 2000 years.

This event is biblical in scope. Whether you call him God or her Gaia, we are brought to our knees and humbled.

We recognize the strength of this growing real food movement created by you, the consumers, and us the farmers. We’ve turned into a powerful community over the last few years responding to natural and political disaster.

Thank you so much for your support during the Plandemic, during the loss of Orla, our farm worker and his family and driver, James back in the Spring, and now through this challenging time.

Our ask of you this time is to please send prayers.

You can purchase e-gift cards in our on-line store. If you feel called, please gift food to someone affected by the storm.

Click on Make a Donation and we will see that this gets to our Simply Grassfed families affected in the area.

Email me at hello@simplygrassfed.com for help receiving your support.

Please be patient with us and have forgiveness if we mess up your order the next month or we are slow to respond to your phone calls and emails.

I look forward to your hugs at the Wise Traditions conference in Orlando.

Keeping the Faith,
Phoenix

Burke's Garden Farm

Alpine Heritage Creamery

The Greenwashing of Our Foods – Part 2

Last year, I wrote an article titled The Greenwashing of the Organic Food Movement.Click here if you missed it, wish to read it again, or to listen to my podcast with Holistic Hilda. I share many valuable resources that you may want to access.For many years, humans and animals have lived quite robustly without disease, strong and happy on unadulterated animal products and plants in their most natural state. A hundred years ago, there was no such thing as organic because most farms and food were organic.Nowadays, finding food or growing food without chemicals is nearly impossible. We are at war with governments, corporations, media propaganda, and peer pressure. Cancer, auto-immune disease, weak bones, mental disorder, autism, dental cavities, SIDS, Downs-Syndrome, eczema, allergies, depression, diabetes, heart disease, ADHD are epidemic. Every year the AMA announces some new, unnamed unique disease. We have a hard time walking a block, yet alone reproducing.The health of our society and most importantly our children is failing. Disease is epidemic and humans and animals have become dependent on artificial life support from drugs, surgeries, and machines.Click here to listen to my latest podcast with the Appropriate Omnivore. Listen to the Podcast Here I spotlight the allowable exemptions in the USDA organic standards that include chemicals, de-beaking, and irradiation as well as standard practices in the organic produce, grain, meat processing, fishing, and honey bee industry.Did you know that if your organic grains and potatoes won’t sprout, they were likely irradiated?Towards the end, I discuss the current USDA mandated vaccination policy of our American wildlife, the laws in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho that require the vaccination of ALL cattle heifers, and the current air-drop vaccination programs across the U.S. How are shellfish treated? Click Here to watch how our shellfish are “Depurated” ie. sterilized both chemically and with radiation to protect us from harmful microbes. They are bathed in chlorinated, anti-microbial water for 2-3 days and irradiated to kill the bacteria before they ship to your grocery store to ensure we get sanitary, bacteria-free food. What they don’t disclose is that the microbes are there to decompose the toxic chemicals from industry in our waterways. And, their depuration process does NOT remove any heavy metals, petroleum, or chemicals from the shellfish. Thus, it is more likely that if someone was to get sick from seafood, it is from eating the chemical pollutants, not from the fish or the microbes. Scallops without any additives are called "dry-packed", while scallops that are treated with sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP) are called "wet-packed". STPP causes the scallops to absorb moisture prior to the freezing process, thereby increasing their weight. So, buy shellfish directly from the fisher or dry- packed, and don't eat from the Gulf of Mexico, near big cities, or toxic waste dumps like the James River in VA or New Jersey or Boston. Best to procure from PEI, Maine, NC, and a few select places in the Pacific Northwest.Currently, oysters are NOT depurated. So, go with oysters over clams, scallops, or mollusks.Clean food and healthy children or going extinct, however, I’m an “apocaloptimist”. It doesn’t look good, but in the long run, good will prevail.It takes vision, perseverance, courage, and hard work to find and grow food that is actually food.Are you down for the challenge? A healthy future for our children, aligned with the wisdom of nature, depends on us. If you want clean food, Burke’s Garden Farm and Alpine Heritage Creamery are both “Beyond Organic”. All our animals are outdoors getting fresh grass, haylage, grubs, sunshine, fresh air, and fresh water from the creeks and springs in a high-elevation circular valley surrounded by mountains, protected from city or industrial pollution. Simply Grassfed animals DO NOT eat GMO feeds or receive Growth Hormones. All our dairy cows are tested A2/A2 Beta-CaseinAll our cheeses are made with NON-GMO-Pfizer rennets. Click Here to read moreAll our cheeses are raw, never exceeding 102 degrees.Our butcher cleans our meat with either apple cider vinegar or water.We ship our products in biodegradable or recyclable cardboard insulated boxes in the Winter and ship with dry-ice when we can to minimize the plastic gel packs filling up the landfill. Click Here for an updated Healthy Products Resource List. In Optimal Health,Phoenix

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