welcome new members! + FB?

[holly]

we have some new members recently, and i just wanted to give a broad
"welcome all!"
to everyone who is new.

i also had someone suggest i start a milkaholics group on facebook-but
wanted to check in here to see if this interests -or conversely
bothers- anyone here.

[Wendy Hammond]

I like the idea of a FaceBook page.   On a side note, for those of you who are thinking about or are making cheese, here is a great forum http://www.cheeseforum.org/   I've made a couple of batches now and I definitely have a greater appreciation for the awesome cheese that is ready made by Jesse! It takes for-ever. --- On Tue, 6/9/09, holly <holly.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Karen Strayer]

Love fb! love cheese!

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[KSl...@aol.com]

Our family lives on Facebook so that's a big "YES" vote from the Slagers! :-)

[Matt Z.]

I'm one of the newbies...Hello all!

Thanks for the welcome...

I'm not sure on Facebook. I never did much with my MySpace page. And
I've neglected my blog for about 2 years now...maybe I'm just lazy?

Matt Z.

[Jennifer]

doesn't bother me at all although I've never done the facebook thing:-)


"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good
men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

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From: "holly" <holly.a...@gmail.com>
To: "milkaholics" <milka...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 7:40 AM
Subject: welcome new members! + FB?


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[valerie schultz]

I would not join as much as I would want to simply because raw milk is illegal here in Michigan  and I do not want the farmer put at risk.
val

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[Karen Green]

Raw milk using a share program is not illegal in MI. We own the cow we are not buying the milk. Our monthly fee goes to paying the farm to board and milk our cow for us.

 

It is illegal to buy raw milk in Michigan, which we are not doing so no laws broken.

 

Karen

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[Green Pastures]

Hello,

I am game for having a FB for the milkaholics group.  We could put pics on it from our farm and cowshare program.  I may have time on Tuesday to put that together and will keep you posted.

 

Thanks!

Betsy

[valerie schultz]

I understand the share thing - I was part of one until the farmer decided not to supply us anymore - too bad I miss the milk and back to dead overcooked store milk for my yogurt. That said the state officials have on occasion shutdown raw milk share groups, from what I understand from the groups I've belonged to around here. Posting the group on facebook is waving a flag saying come check us out, monitor us, know us.

i love facebook, I promote and would use raw milk if I could find it, I don't trust the public posting would turn out great for the farmer. At the same time it may help promote raw milk to become more mainstream but I remain sceptical.

I believe if one of us gets sick the insurance companies may not cover any of us whether the milk was involved or not, they are always looking for reason to not pay.

Paranoid, maybe.
Just don't want to raise a red flag when there is something I love walking a tight rope.

do what you will, i like it here.

Val

[Michele Thorson]

Hi Val,

 

I belong to a farm in Coopersville called Green Pastures.  We "board" our cow there, and a share gets us roughly 4 gallons/week...sometimes less.  It's raw milk, and their website is www.migreenpastures.com 

 

Michele Thorson 

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[Nicole Fabri]

Valerie’s point is a good one. I’d also be concerned that facebook would draw unwanted regulatory attention to the farm. Keep in mind that some people, folks looking at Facebook, think that raw milk is reeeeeeally bad and kills children. Some people are totally irrational and uneducated about raw milk. Would we want one person to “alert the authorities” and that dominoes into a series of problems that….. you get my point. 

 

Is there another way to share information without creating such a public posting? What’s wrong with the googlegroups that we’re using?

 

Nicole

 

 

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[Wendy Hammond]

Wouldn't an easy solution be to keep our FB page private? I think you can set it so that only members can view it.   What I like about it is you can set events, share files, etc. --- On Tue, 6/16/09, Michele Thorson <mic...@egrdental.com> wrote:

From: Michele Thorson <mic...@egrdental.com> Subject: Re: welcome new members! + FB?

To: milka...@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 11:16 AM

Hi Val,   I belong to a farm in Coopersville called Green Pastures.  We "board" our cow there, and a share gets us roughly 4 gallons/week...sometimes less.  It's raw milk, and their website is www.migreenpastures.com    Michele Thorson