About « LOCAL CHOICES

About

October 4, 2007 by katnanna

Hi, my name is Anna and I live in the central valley of California in a lovely little town called Turlock, in the five years that I have lived here I have come to love this agricultural community.

After working in the beauty industry for 30 years and raising three wonderful children with my husband of 29 years, I have discovered I now have time for myself and wanted to take a better interest in my health.

I ventured into the world of organic foods, products and have discovered our local organic & natural small farms and ranches. There is so much wonderful information for our community on sustainable farming, our local regional eco-system and the most beautiful and healthy farm fresh foods to be offered.

So let us share with you this information we have discovered and be your resource directory connecting you to your local organic & natural small farmers and ranchers.

I am very excited about the new Local Choices blog and would love to hear from everyone that is interested in a healthy lifestyle!

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Hi my name is Kat and I am joining Anna on this organic adventure. I am a personal trainer and event coordinator. I own Balanced Body a fitness Studio in Hilmar, California and coordinated the agricultural education for the Los Banos Spring Fair and Merced County Fairs. I was raised on a small family farm in Stevinson, ventured into our beautiful world, graduated with a BS in Recreation Administration with a minor in Ag Business from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, did more in the world and returned to Stevinson with a desire to help others feel better and become healthy. As we search out local organic and natural produce and other health related adventures we will update Local Choices. If you have a particular area of interest please contact us.

I became interested in a healthier life style due to a life threatening ordeal. My appendix ruptured and I went 5 days before it was diagnosed correctly. I was very toxic, gangrene had set in and my temperature was 108. My prognoses was not good, but I had a wonderful surgeon and medical staff who worked hard to keep me alive and bring me back. They did an excellent job in treating the problem but over the long term surgery after surgery was beginning to wear on my body. After a year of being in and out of the hospital and a dozen surgeries there was not much that they could do. They gave me less then 6 months to live. What I needed was to find out what was causing the problems, so I turned to holistic healing. Now over 14 years later I am still here, and I want to help others by providing healthier food choices.

16 Responses to “About”

on October 26, 2007 at 3:41 am1 katnanna

1 Debby White

Anna and Kat. What a wonderful blog! Keep up the good work. I will check back often. Please keep me posted on any changes.
Sincerely
Your Friend
Debby
on October 31, 2007 at 7:55 pm2 katnanna

Thanks Debby!
on January 24, 2008 at 11:28 pm3 Victoria

Hi Kat & Ana! I found your blog through modestofamous.com and am so happy to have some “locavores” in town. I have been wanting to support local agriculture but not really sure where to buy produce, and this blog really helps. Thanks for doing this and keep up the good work! I’ll check back here often
on January 24, 2008 at 11:50 pm4 katnanna

Thanks for the thumbs up Victoria, we are having a good time discovering our local farmers, and sharing. They all have so many viable and healthy foods to offer us, its wonderful.
Thank you for wanting to support these small growers and contribute to our local economy as well.
Spread the word!

Happy Farming,
KatnAnna
on February 7, 2008 at 5:10 pm5 Emily Lindsey

I would love to find out how we can get our info to you. We sell all natural lamb (i your current aricle about Cafe Sol!) and we would love to have more product locally. Thanks! Emily Lindsey from Sorensen Farms
on March 17, 2008 at 5:06 am6 kelly bauer

Great Place. Can you please contact me I’ve got some questions and hoping you can help me connect!! So very impressed with all you ahve her! Great Job!
kelly bauer with bauer family farms, inc.
on March 17, 2008 at 6:33 pm7 katnanna

Hi Kelly,

We received your e-mail, and it sounds like you are wanting to start a CSA - Community Suported Agriculture.

Visit our posts on the two farmers that offer CSA’s and give them a call to help direct you for information.

good Luck and keep us posted on your new venture!
on March 24, 2008 at 3:53 pm8 Chris Irwin

Good morning:

Just stumbled upon your site after doing a search on organic farming in the Central Valley. I just moved to Patterson and would love to hear information about farmers producing organic/pesticide-free products. Do you know of a directory for local Farmer’s Markets? Thanks and good luck with your venture!

Chris
on March 24, 2008 at 7:40 pm9 katnanna

Hi Chris,

If you are looking for the nearest farmers market to you, it would
be Modesto. Our directory has some listed, for more listings visit
http://www.cafarmersmarket.com.

To find organic/pesticide-free products give our Riverdance Farmers, Bill or Cindy a call at 209-761-0081, they can send you in the right direction!

Happy Farming,
KatnAnna
on May 13, 2008 at 8:53 pm10 Krina Shah

Love the blog and joined your organic group on Flickr! If you want, you can shoot me an e-mail and I can send you a research report from The Rodale Institute about what being organic does to fight global warming. Please check out http://www.hero-farmers.org/ as well!

Keep doing what you’re doing and spreading the word about going organic!
on May 14, 2008 at 5:08 pm11 katnanna

Thanks Krina,

What great sites you also have.
We will keep in touch, see you on flicker!

Happy Farming,

KatnAnna
on May 15, 2008 at 5:33 am12 Angi Harrover

Hey I wanted to know how to be listed to your group. Let me know I am listed on Local Harvest as well as HHH Farms (Harrovers Hens and Heirlooms)

We keep bees all natural and sell the benifits of the hive. Honey Pollen and propolis. As well as farm fresh eggs and chickens,, Turkey, Quail, Muscovy ducks. Eggs for all as well as hatching eggs for all the above. I sale processed poultry as well. LEt me know how to be posted to the group. As I farm as well we have grapes, blueberries, heirloom tomatoes and veggies, garlic onions and a whole lot more. We have started a CSA.

Angi
HHH Farms
on May 20, 2008 at 6:36 am13 David

Hi KatnAnna,

Web looks great lots of information, great job in Los Banos thanks for enducation our comunity about health and agriculture. Have you considered doing a write-up on the Holistic Exchange in Merced, not many people know what they are all about. I know they don’t farm but I think peple who visit your site might like to know about them.

The breakfast I will be preparing at the Pick and Gather will be all organic, you may wan to make mention of that on your page.

Thanks,
David Silveira
on May 21, 2008 at 12:30 am14 katnanna

Hi David,

We are so glad you enjoyed your visit here!

Really looking forward to your Sunday breakfast
at “Pick & Gather”…. it’s going to be yummy!

Happy Farming,

KatnAnna
on June 27, 2008 at 2:56 pm15 Darrell Angel

Hello,
Thank you for this fantastic site. My name is Darrell Angel, I own and operate Angel’s Heavenly Hog Farm and I would love to be listed among your all natural farms. Please contact me with instructions on how I can get listed.

Thank you,
Darrell
on June 27, 2008 at 8:06 pm16 katnanna

Hi Darrell,

Thanks for the compliments, we are excited you found us and would love to visit and list your Hog Farm!

We will give you a call