Growers and Grocers

Is saying nothing the best way to market your company’s eco-image?  There’s a lot of pressure these days to be greener than thou and as owners of Rosas Farms, our company is synonymous with grass-fed organic and all that’s green, including The Organic Chef ™, and we know the challenge is there for almost every […]

It began innocently enough. In 1953, just 10 years after penicillin became widely available, Lain Macleod, the then minister of Health, told the House of Commons in England that feeding antibiotics to farm animals to make them grow faster would have “no adverse effect whatever on human beings.” Government research had, in fact, only looked […]

Ingredient-driven restaurants are hip!  HOORAY!  Finally we’re heading back home and just in time.  America’s homogenized pallet is starting to wake up.  Just as carpooling caught fire so has locavorism and we are beginning to learn as a country that organic is great, but knowing your farmer and knowing your food can’t be beat.
As organic farmers, we […]

Is the green movement hype or hope? If you ask anyone who invested in Bio-fuel, the answer is HYPE.  If you ask the farmers who are reaping the financial rewards of planting more corn than has ever been planted in the United States, HOPE.  What do I think?  HORRENDOUS.  
Just as the world is starting to wake […]

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(Sung to the Tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas)On the first day of Christmas, Agribusiness gave to me….
High Fructose … in everything we eat.
On the Second Day of Christmas Agribusiness gave to me…
Hormones in our Food
On the Third Day of Christmas Agribusiness gave to me…
Three Pesticides
On […]

Do you recall a time before beef recalls?  As an organic grass-fed farmer, I know the origin of 0157:H7, the e-coli bug that is the source of nearly every beef recall in the past decade.  Yet I’m still shocked and amazed that the American public has no idea at all why beef is recalled and […]

What the heck?  MRSA?  People actually are starting to become familiar with the acronym for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), an isolate of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus characterized by antibiotic resistance to all penicillin.  MRSA was discovered for the first time in 1961 in the UK, but it is now widespread in the hospital setting. MRSA is […]

How Eco-illiteracy is Affecting America’s Children
By: Erin Rosas CHCC
But Johnny can’t read. Summer is over and he’s gone to seed
You know that Johnny can’t read. He never learned nothin’ that he’ll ever need.
- Don Henley
Years ago a study titled “Why Johnny Can’t Read” raised public awareness of illiteracy. Every day I educate families and companies […]

As a certified healthcare consultant and organic farmer, I hear time and again how people want to clean up their diet. The number one reason they site as the source of their failure is the cost of organic food. So, here it is folks. No more excuses. 10 reasons why […]

The conversation began very innocently. My husband Al Rosas, The Organic Chef and I were asked to consult for a major hotel chain regarding their restaurants and using more local and organic foods as options for their customers.
The idea was that they would use our name Rosas Farms and some of our products which […]