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Friends Of Maveric
Heritage Ranch
Our conservation and breed preservation
work would not be possible if not through the loving support
and publicity from our friends. To learn more about the
Friends of Maveric, check out the links below.
If you would like to be listed as a friend
on Maveric's web page, please contact
us for further information.
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From their web page:
Slow Food USA is a non-profit educational organization
dedicated to supporting and celebrating the food traditions
of North America through programs and activities dedicated
to Taste Education, Defending Biodiversity and Building
Food Communities. Slow Food USA believes that pleasure
and quality in everyday life can be achieved by slowing
down, respecting the convivial traditions of the table
and celebrating the diversity of the earth's bounty.
Slow Food USA envisions a future food system that
is based on the principles of high quality and taste,
environmental sustainability, and social justice -
in essence, a food system that is good, clean and
fair. (see below) We seek to catalyze a broad cultural
shift away from the destructive effects of an industrial
food system and fast life; toward the regenerative
cultural, social and economic benefits of a sustainable
food system, regional food traditions, the pleasures
of the table, and a slower and more harmonious rhythm
of life.
Good: Naturally delicious food created with care
from healthy plants and animals.
Clean: Grown and harvested with methods that have
a positive impact on ecosystems and biodiversity.
Fair: Produced by people who are treated with dignity
and justly compensated for their labor.
Slow Food has helped promote the preservation of
rare and endangered livestock breeds by putting them
on the table.
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Slow Food makes its support of biodiversity real
by promoting artisanal producers of quality products.
Created in 1996, the Ark of Taste is a growing catalogue
of foods that have been forgotten or marginalized
and are at risk of disappearing completely. The Ark
identifies over 500 animal breeds, fruit and vegetable
varieties, prepared foods and specific dishes and
offers a resource for those interested in sourcing
and promoting quality foods.
The Ark of Taste aims to rediscover, catalog, describe
and publicize forgotten flavors. It is a metaphorical
recipient of excellent gastronomic products that are
threatened by industrial standardization, hygiene
laws, the regulations of large-scale distribution
and environmental damage.
Ark products range from the Italian Valchiavenna
goat to the American Navajo-Churro sheep, from the
last indigenous Irish cattle breed, the Kerry, to
a unique variety of Greek fava beans grown only on
the island of Santorini. All are endangered products
that have real economic viability and commercial potential.
The Slow Food USA Ark has been immeasurably supportive
of the endangered hog breeds raised at Maveric. The
mulefoot and guinea hog have both enjoyed Ark recognition
for taste, quality and conservation needs.
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From their web page:
The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy is a clearing-house
for information on livestock and genetic diversity.
The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy protects
genetic diversity in livestock and poultry species
through the conservation and promotion of endangered
breeds. These rare breeds are part of our national
heritage and represent a unique piece of the earth's
bio-diversity. The loss of these breeds would impoverish
agriculture and diminish the human spirit. We have
inherited a rich variety of livestock breeds. For
the sake of future generations we must work together
to safeguard these treasures.
The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy's programs
include research on breed population size, distribution
and genetic health; research on breed characteristics;
gene banks to preserve genetic material from endangered
breeds; rescues of threatened populations; education
about genetic diversity and the role of livestock
in sustainable agriculture; and technical support
to a network of breeders, breed associations, and
farmers.
The need for livestock conservation is urgent. Throughout
agricultural history, each generation has taken its
turn as steward of the genetic trust. Our generation
is now in danger of bankrupting this trust and leaving
little for the future. Each day, some breeds move
closer to extinction. Each extinction reduces the
diversity within the livestock species and the biodiversity
of the Earth.
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From their web page:
Founded in 1993, Chefs Collaborative is the leading
culinary organization that provides its members
with tools for running economically healthy, sustainable
food service businesses. The non-profit 501 (c)
(3) organization has more than 1,000 active and
passionate food community professionals as members,
70% of whom are chefs. This impressive nationwide
network represents independent and corporate establishments.
Other members represent a broad range of food-related
professions, from culinary school instructors and
managers of large food service operations to distributors,
owners of specialty stores, and farmers, fishermen,
and ranchers.
Together, we share a common concern about the sources
of the food we eat. We work collectively to promote
the highest-quality, best-tasting local ingredients;
products we know are better for the environment,
our communities, and the nation's tables.
Mission: Chefs Collaborative works with chefs and
the greater food community to celebrate local foods
and foster a more sustainable food supply. The Collaborative
inspires action by translating information about
our food into tools for making knowledgeable purchasing
decisions. Through these actions, our members embrace
seasonality, preserve diversity and traditional
practices, and support local economies.
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From their web page:
Eatwild.com is your source for safe, healthy, natural
and nutritious grass-fed beef, lamb, goats, bison, poultry,
pork and dairy products. This site has three goals:
· To link consumers with local suppliers
of all-natural, delicious, grass-fed products. ·To
provide comprehensive, accurate information about the
benefits of raising animals on pasture. ·To
provide a marketplace for farmers who raise their livestock
on pasture from birth to market and who actively promote
the welfare of their animals and the health of the land.
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AMHAR is the only active Mulefoot Hog
registry in existence. Through their work, they promote
the Mulefoot breed and educate the public about this
endangered hog. For a complete list of Mulefoot breeders,
news and photos, visit the AMHAR web page.
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Local Harvest is an enormous and beautifully
designed web page that helps people locate food that
is grown in their area via sustainable and/or organic
methods. Search this page for food grown in your area
and connect with your local farmers.
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Dakota Rural Action is a grassroots
family agriculture and conservation group that organizes
South Dakotans to protect our family farmers and ranchers,
natural resources, and unique way of life.
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No NAIS is a web page dedicated to educating
the public about the harmful-even fatal-effects the
National Animal Identification System will have on all
farmers, homesteaders, animal and pet owners and consumers.
The NAIS is set up to benefit factory farms and agribusinesses.
Find out how you can help protect our American way of
life and our right to raise animals and produce our
own food. Visit NoNais.org today.
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Have you ever eaten a meal rich with
juices, flavors, and fragrances that have taken centuries
to develop? A tender pear once planted in Thomas Jefferson's
orchards, an oily fish that built trade routes in the
Northwest, a hot pepper that tells the story of Minorcan
immigration to Florida-these are the stories of North
American traditions that lie hidden within our foods.
Yet many of these foods have been rapidly disappearing
from our tables. In the United States alone, 63% of
native American crop varieties have disappeared from
cultivation since European arrival on this continent.
With these losses has come a decline in traditional
ecological and culinary knowledge, and declines in the
food rituals which link communities to place and cultural
heritage. If these culinary delights persist only in
our history books we will have lost an important cultural
legacy and future generations will be deprived of the
exquisite flavors found in these heritage foods.
There is and urgent need to maintain the incredible
diversity of America's edible plants, animals, and their
food traditions because of the important ecological,
gastronomical, cultural, and health benefits of biodiversity.
Ecological Benefits: plant and animal diversity sustains
healthy ecological relationships; sustainable agricultural
practices which support plant and animal diversity encourage
resistance to pest and diseases also ensuring food security.
Gastronomic Benefits: inherent in a diversity of foods
is a variety of aromas, textures, and flavors.
Cultural Benefits: preservation of traditional knowledge
and sustainable production.
Health & Nutrition Benefits: resistance to disease
including diabetes and heart disease.
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Pipestone Vet Clinic, in Pipestone,
Minnesota is the source for all of our veterinary needs.
Drs. Goelz, Schmitt and the rest of the wonderful vets
and crew have always been open and willing to learn
about rare breeds and the organic and alternative husbandry
methods we use here at Maveric. Contact Pipestone Vet
Clinic at www.pipevet.com for all you livestock and
pet needs. We can't say enough about how caring and
skilled these folks are.
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We are lifetime members of the Belted
Galloway Society, an organization established to promote
and preserve this incredible and outrageously beautiful
breed of cattle. Visit them to learn more about Belties,
their history in the US and view stunning pictures.
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The Meatrix is an award winning film
about the abuses that go on in factory farms. Find out
more about how your food is produced and learn how and
where to purchase food from sustainable farms. You will
never look at meat, dairy products or eggs the same
way after viewing this film.
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Sustainable Table celebrates the sustainable
food movement, educates consumers on food related issues
and works to build community through food. Sustainable
agriculture involves food production methods that are
healthy, do not harm the environment, respect workers,
are humane to animals, provide fair wages to farmers,
and support farming communities. Rather than focusing
on the problems, Sustainable Table promotes the positive
shift toward local, small-scale sustainable farming.
Visit their searchable web page which can help you locate
locally and sustainably grown food.
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The Land Stewardship Project's mission
is to foster an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to
promote sustainable agriculture and to develop sustainable
communities. Through their beginner Farmer program,
people interested in becoming sustainable agriculture
producers can receive assistance, training and counseling.
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From their web page:
At Eating Fresh Publications, we believe small-scale,
independent farmers in your region grow and raise the
freshest, most flavorful food. If you haven't yet made
the connection between how your food tastes and how
far it's traveled, get ready to find out what some of
the best chefs already know!
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Eating Fresh Publications serves to
connect home cooks, professional chefs, restaurateurs,
food enthusiasts, and consumers to local agriculture
and celebrating the taste, health, and community benefits
of eating local, seasonal, pasture-raised and organic
food.
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The mission of SVF Foundation is to preserve germplasm
(embryos, semen and genetic material) of rare and
endangered breeds of livestock.
Rare breeds of livestock carry valuable and irreplaceable
traits such as innate disease resistance, heat tolerance,
parasite resistance and mothering ability qualities
which may be needed at some time in the future. It
is conceivable that a current popular breed may become
jeopardized due to a shift in the factors that let
to its predominant role, such as industry demand or
infectious disease.
SVF Foundation, led by a Board of Trustees, is in
collaboration with Cummings
School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University
to help protect the world's food supply by preserving
rare and endangered breeds of livestock. The efforts
of SVF Foundation are to elevate the rare breeds conservation
movement to a new level -- the storing of germplasm
in the frozen state for future use.
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The Folks in New Orleans know great pork! Thanks
for the awesome "Pig Out" at Savvy Gourmet,
where we featured guinea and mulefoot hog dishes,
prepared by our friends and chefs Frank Brigtsen,
Steven Stryjewski, Donald Link, Corbin Evans, Gerard
Maras, Darrin Nesbit, John Besh, Alison Rushing &
Susan Spicer.
Poppy Tooker is the Patron Saint of Endangered Pigs,
and we honored by her ongoing support of our work
in saving these rare breeds by putting them back on
the table.
"Eat it to Save it" ~ Poppy Tooker
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Visit the Sedgwick County Zoo and see American Guinea
Hogs and other rare breeds. The SCZ has the largest
collection of Heritage and endangered livestock breeds
in the US!
Many of the breeds of livestock in the Children's
Farms are listed as rare by the American Livestock
Breeds Conservancy (ALBC), an organization dedicated
to the preservation of rare or heritage breeds of
livestock. How can a cow be considered rare? After
all you can see cows any day as you drive up and down
the road, right? Actually, many of the breeds on exhibit
in the Children's Farms are more rare than some of
the exotic animals we have in our care throughout
the rest of the Zoo. These heritage breeds were once
the basis for animal agriculture worldwide, but the
shift in twentieth century agriculture from small,
sustainable family farms to the high-number, high-production
units we are familiar with today has removed many
valuable breeds from service. Many have already become
extinct. The surviving breeds represent a genetic
treasure chest of resources for agriculture. It is
important to save these rare breeds because if they
disappear, it is no different than when a wild animal
becomes extinct.
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The Memphis Zoo features our wonderful Guinea Hogs.
The keepers at Memphis love the friendly and entertaining
pigs, and show their dedication to rare breeds every
day.
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Visit the Virginia Zoo to see American Mulefoot &
Guinea Hogs. These hogs are leash trained and take
walks around the zoo to meet & greet people.
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Visit guinea hogs and other heritage breeds at the
Tulsa Zoo.
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Visit our Belted Galloway Cattle and Jacob Sheep
at the Great Plains Zoo.
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The Secret is a movie about the power
of deliberate creation and the Law of Attraction. If
you want to change your life, this is a great place
to start.
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Jerry, Esther and Abraham were the inspiration
for The Secret. Visit them to see how it all began.
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