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If you'd like some sourdough starter, I'd be glad to share.

Yes, that would be great, thanks.

Actually, you were saying about organic stuff - can I ask where to get organic meat from? I wasn't able to find it at Value Mart or Sobeys (they have there some meat from animals not treated with crazy things, but I wanted from grass-fed animals...)

You should come over to our place sometime then! =) (Or I could just bring some starter to campus.)

I meant to reply to your last post about the meat, but didn't get around to it. Eating Well Organically (King Street in Uptown) sells certified organic frozen beef from Unfactory Farm -- the cattle are mostly grass-fed, but I believe they might be grain finished. They're also at the Kitchener Market by the stairs (where they sell their awesome summer sausage) and can bring orders in if you let them know ahead of time. The Old Kitchen Cupboard (Belmont Village) sells fresh and frozen Fieldgate Organic meats (beef, pork, chicken), and Brady's Meats (Albert & Bearinger) gets it weekly by special order -- but it's a pretty big operation and I don't think they claim anything about grass versus grain. Bailey's Local Foods offers frozen chicken and mostly-grass-fed beef; this is a buying club with Friday pick-ups in Uptown.

There's more options if you can drive out to stock your freezer once in a while. Foodlink Waterloo Region has a useful map and listings and Canadian Organic Growers have some more. For example, Laepple Organic Farm seems pretty gung-ho about grass-fed. Some things are more difficult to find around here, though, such as pork. (Meat will be so much easier if we get a stand-alone freezer....)

I hope this helps some; I'll let you know if I think of something useful.

Thank you. I will check out Eating Well Organically first since it's close to where I live.
Either way works for me for sourdough starter. I guess I would need a bread maker first. I will buy one soon.

I have to read a little on these definitions of organic. But I hope you don't mean that - meat can be classified organic while the cow was fed with ... meat... instead of grass? o_O

It's not hard to make bread without a bread maker. This is how I do it.

The main concern is that cows often are fed grain (e.g. corn) instead of grass. (I'm not entirely sure whether all animal products are prohibited from organic livestock feed, but they might not be.)

I see :) By the way, very nice blog.

Thanks!

This wasn't clear in my above comment, but the organic label doesn't imply much about what the animal eats, just that whatever they eat is certified organic.