{"id":321,"date":"2006-06-06T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=321"},"modified":"2006-06-06T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T15:50:09","slug":"food_for_though-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought &#8211; Fraser Valley Part Two-The Farm House Natural Cheeses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/farmer_outstanding_in_his_field.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Farmer_outstanding_in_his_field\" height=\"116\" alt=\"Farmer_outstanding_in_his_field\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/farmer_outstanding_in_his_field.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> Now that&#8217;s a cow!&nbsp; This week on Food For Thought I featured George Boyes and Debra Amrein-Boyes, owners and operators of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmhousecheeses.com\/\">The Farm House Natural Cheeses <\/a>in Agassiz.&nbsp; They talked about their decision to sell off some milk quota in order to save the family farm and diversify their operation.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/george_and_calf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"George_and_calf\" height=\"362\" alt=\"George_and_calf\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/george_and_calf.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> George and Debra treat their cows like princesses, and George&#8217;s knowledge of breeding and what he should feed the cows to gain optimal results in cheese production is essential to their success.<\/p>\n<p>I loved the cheeses I tried, including some goat&#8217;s milk cheese they currently make with animals they own but are pastured elsewhere.&nbsp; They&#8217;re in the midst of moving the goats onto the farm to centralize operations.&nbsp; Debra also makes butter from the cow&#8217;s milk, but I didn&#8217;t get to taste any while I was there, because, as George says, &#8216;it&#8217;s as scarce as hen&#8217;s teeth!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Farm House Natural Cheeses is part of the District of Kent&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.circlefarmtour.ca\/\">Circle Farm Tour<\/a> of Agassiz.&nbsp; If you can&#8217;t make it out to the Fraser Valley from Vancouver, you can also find a pretty good selection of Debra&#8217;s cheeses at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buycheese.com\/\">les amis du FROMAGE<\/a> in Vancouver.&nbsp; To listen to today&#8217;s program in streaming Real Audio click <a href=\"\/files\/fft_week23-06.ram\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that&#8217;s a cow!&nbsp; This week on Food For Thought I featured George Boyes and Debra Amrein-Boyes, owners and operators of The Farm House Natural Cheeses in Agassiz.&nbsp; They talked about their decision to sell off some milk quota in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though-13\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}