A food chain is a series of processes by which food is grown or produced, sold, and eventually consumed.
How transparent is the food chain that ends in your mouth?
Its an important question. Gabriel's Food Chain is practically invisible, it's so transparent. We can introduce you to the animals you plan to eat, farmers who plant and harvest pesticide-free vegetables, cheese makers using milk from cows fed entirely on grass, happy hens ranging freely and laying gorgeous eggs. We work with more than forty small farmers, mostly Amish and Mennonite who've been growing sustainably for generations. They use no growth hormones, added preservatives, GMO, nor antibiotics.
Our products would rank 4 or 5 on the Global Animal Partnership's 5-Step Animal Welfare Rating System.
This is Holly when she was a calf in 2015. She has calved twice and now gives enough milk to sustain two households.
Gabriel
Gabriel is a 3rd generation sheep and horse farmer with a diverse agricultural education. He has nearly 30 years of farm experience and is fascinated by the relationship people and animals. GEs first farm job was at Falkland Farms, a 1700 acre ranch with Champion Pollen Herefords. He was a cowhand, assistant greenhouse and garden caretaker. As a young man he learned firsthand the benefits of integrating the farm into everyday life. His family maintained a competition flock of Shropshire Sheep and successful Appaloosa ponies. GE knows how to milk, shear, shoe a pony, and pull a lamb. He is driven to find new ways to help people eat closer to the source of their food.
G E Washington with Rex, the 2015 Bedford County Fair Reserve Grand Champion (Adult Class). Rex is a Gelding Halflinger who is now 12 years old.
Jo Novelli-Blasko
On the Global Animal Partnership's
5-Step Animal Welfare Rating System,
our products would rank 4 or higher.
Like many people, Jo's relationship to food has been vexing. The production, consumption and distribution of food has been important to her art, writing and work for some time. Most importantly, eating cleanly saved Jo's life on more than one occasion. She thinks it shouldn't cost a fortune.
Jo Novelli-Blasko and a
non-alcoholic umbrella drink.