This morning I received an email from the Organic Consumers Association about Ben & Jerry’s annual Free Cone Day.
“There’s only one problem,” they wrote. “Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is never free—because we all pay for the health and environmental damage caused by Ben & Jerry’s factory farm dairy practices.
Last summer OCA announced their testing of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream contained traces of glyphosate.
But there are other choices.
I know here is Northern California we have organic ice cream made by a local dairy. You may have local organic ice cream in your community as well. I can buy it at natural food stores and local independent supermarkets.
Straus Family Creamery has been organic for about 30 years now, maybe longer. I used to live literally, right down the road from them, less than 10 miles away. It’s a long-established family-owned dairy farm. You can go tour the farm if you are in the area. If I remember correctly, they were the first to offer organic milk and cream in stores here, and it came in glass bottles (and still does). They are a good neighbor to the community and ecosystem and their ice cream is super delicious.
Take a look around your community and see what organic ice cream you can find.
Alden’s Organic icecream is readily available at Natural Grocers, Whole Foods, Sprouts and tastes amazing; pricy but worth it if our local Cherry Street farmers market here in Tulsa isn’t in session.
Hi Debra.. Love your site. Be following you for years. I just wanted to add you can always make your own fresh organic ice cream. I make my own. Very simple. No machine needed. Milk, cream and sugar. Add extras as you want. Very simple, easy and organic.
Absolutely! That’s actually what I used to do. We used to have one of those link hand-crank ice cream maker where you freeze the container. Larry and I would take turns cranking it while we watched TV.
These days I actually make fruit sorbet instead, from partially thawed frozen fruits whizzed up in the blender. The result is the cold creaminess of ice cream without the sugar or fat.