• 7/27/16 | News

  Q&A with Straus Family Creamery: Albert Straus

  Straus Family Creamery, located in Northern California, was founded in 1994 and has now become one of the most well known organic creameries on the…

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• 5/1/16 | News

  Hughes Dairy Focuses on Cattle Health and Land Management

  Richard Hughes is a first generation dairy farmer. It’s not something you often hear, most Sonoma County dairy farmers are several generations in.

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• 4/25/16 | News

  The True Cost of American Food Conference Videos

  The True Cost of American Food conference, which took place April 14-17, 2016 in San Francisco, brought together a wide range of leaders and interested…

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• 4/18/16 | News

  Catching Rain for the Cows

  This winter, when rain started falling at the Hughes’ dairy, the barn did more than keep 200 Jersey cows dry – it funneled about a…

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• 2/1/16 | News

  American Dairy Producers: Going Organic

  By the time Albert Straus had earned his degree in dairy science and returned to his family farm near the town of Marshall, on the…

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• 12/10/15 | News

  Marin’s affordable housing crisis and the threat to rural communities

  The town of Marshall, where I have lived and farmed all my life, is becoming a ghost town.

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• 11/5/15 | News

  Sustainable silicon farming to defeat California drought

  The drought on America’s west coast is taking its toll on the dairy industry as around 100 dairy farms now go out of business each…

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• 7/20/15 | News

  Straus Family Creamery was first in U.S. to become organic

  The leadership Straus Family Creamery demonstrated 21 years ago by becoming the first certified 100 percent organic creamery in the U.S. and the first organic…

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• 7/18/15 | News

  Organic milk steers Marin farm production to record $101 million

  In the two decades since the Straus Dairy in Marshall was the first in the West to become certified organic, most others in the region…

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• 7/13/15 | News

  Straus Family Creamery: When Milk Isn’t Just Milk

  Twenty years ago, Albert Straus challenged the very notion of “commodity milk” and since then, the dairy industry—in fact, the whole food industry hasn’t been…

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• 1/21/15 | News

  Mindful Milk:  A collaborative project to improve milk quality for dairy farmers in northern India

  During a visit to California in 2011, Dr. Vandana Shiva, the globally renowned physicist, environmentalist and food-sovereignty activist from India, spent an afternoon at Albert…

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• 5/12/14 | News

  Discovering mutual challenges and goals among dairy farmers in Northern India & Northern California

  What do dairy farmers in Northern India have in common with dairy farmers in Northern California? Quite a bit. While environmental and cultural contexts are…

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• 4/17/14 | News

  A dairy farmer’s tale: “With organic, there is so much less to worry about”

  Richard Hughes, a Sonoma County dairy farmer of more than 50 years, spoke along with Albert Straus, this past January, on a panel at the…

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• 3/24/14 | News

  Update on the California Drought and the Straus Dairies

  Slowly but surely, Northern California is starting to “look like normal” after much needed rainfalls in the last few weeks. The grass has finally started…

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• 2/17/14 | News

  California Drought and Straus Family Creamery

  Last week’s rainfalls were a great relief, but there is no doubt that we are still in the thick of the worst drought California has…

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• 11/11/13 | News

  Highgrove farm to Petaluma

  For Albert Straus, the beginning of fall started off with a trip to a conference in the United Kingdom in September. Patrick Holden, the Founding…

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• 10/24/13 | News

  The True Time of Food Production

  In discussions on organic agriculture and food production, we often hear about the “true cost of food”. But there’s an additional “food truth” we want…

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• 10/9/13 | News

  We’re Hiring!

  We are currently hiring for five different positions in operations and sales. Please take a look at our job postings and spread the word!

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• 9/4/13 | News

  Straus Family Creamery Becomes a Certified Sonoma Green Business

  Spearheaded by Straus Family Creamery’s former VP of Human Resources and Sustainability, Elizabeth Romanoff, we are proud to announce our completion of the Bay Area…

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• 5/22/13 | News

  Majority of dairy farms in Marin and Sonoma Counties are now organic

  Seems like a long time ago, when the Straus family dairy became the first certified organic dairy in California and the western United States. Now,…

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• 5/21/13 | Press Releases

  Introducing New, Organic Ice Cream Flavors: Cookies & Cream and Vanilla Chocolate Chip

  Petaluma, Calif., May 21, 2013 – Just in time for summer and in response to the growing demand for gluten-free desserts, Straus Family Creamery is…

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• 5/14/13 | News

  Albert Straus Comments at California Coastal Commission Workshop on Agriculture

  On May 8, 2013, the California Coastal Commission held a workshop on agriculture in the coastal zone in San Rafael, California. A number of speakers…

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• 4/12/13 | News

  Albert Straus Comments at NOSB Meeting in Portland

  On April 9, 2013, the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) had their bi-annual meeting in Portland, OR. Albert Straus attended the meeting to share his…

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• 2/26/13 | Press Releases

  Straus Family Creamery’s new wholesale bag-in-box, organic milk now on the menu at UC Santa Barbara

  Petaluma, Calif., February 26, 2013 – Northern California organic dairy pioneer Straus Family Creamery is pleased to introduce organic, 5-gallon bag-in-box milk, a brand new…

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• 1/15/13 | News

  Holiday Dessert Recipe Contest Winners

  We are very pleased to announce the winners of our December 2012 Holiday Dessert Recipe Contest on Facebook.

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• 10/9/12 | News, Press Releases

  Straus Family Creamery supports Proposition 37 with release of new packaging

  Petaluma, Calif., October 9, 2012 – Straus Family Creamery announces its new packaging, featuring information in support of the California Right-to-Know Genetically Engineered Food Act,…

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• 10/2/12 | News, Press Releases

  Straus Family Creamery Adds Mazzetta Dairy to its Group of Organic Milk Suppliers

  Petaluma, California, October 3, 2012 – Straus Family Creamery, the pioneering organic and non-GMO Verified creamery in Northern California’s Marin County, proudly announces bringing on…

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• 6/20/12 | News

  GMO Showdown - Press Democrat June 17,2012

  State ballot measure requiring labeling of genetically engineered items divides North Coast's organic, traditional farmers and food producers.

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• 5/15/12 | News

  California Right to Know Campaign confident to get on ballot in November

  On May 2nd, the 2012 California Right to Know Campaign submitted a total of 971,126 signatures in support of GMO labeling.

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• 9/30/11 | News

  Dr. Vandana Shiva Visits Straus

  We had the great honor to welcome environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva at Straus Family Creamery for a visit. She is a leader of the International…

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