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Albert Straus joined representatives from dairy organizations worldwide in signing the Global Dairy Sustainability Declaration at the International Dairy Federation's 2024 World Dairy Summit
“Today, our regional food community provides high quality food for local residents and organic consumers around the country while also serving as a global example of on-farm environmental stewardship and climate positive practices. Measure J threatens to completely undercut our decades of transformational work.”
— Albert Straus, Straus Family Creamery
Global AgInvesting
This summer, Grounded Capital, a San Francisco-based SEC-registered investment advisor, has made back-to-back investments to support sustainable food production in the United States. These included a $22.5 million investment into Lotus Foods coupled with a new equity investment into the Straus Family Creamery in June and July, respectively.
PETALUMA, Calif. (July 17, 2024) – Straus Family Creamery announced that it has secured equity investment from Grounded Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on deploying capital that supports healthy social, ecological and financial systems.
Here & Now
Straus Family Creamery in Northern California is a leader among the newer generation of American yogurt makers.
Food Navigator USA
Watch the Food Navigator USA interview with our Founder Albert Straus at Natural Products Expo West.
PETALUMA, Calif., (February 29, 2024) A groundbreaking practice-based incentive program —which is among the first of its kind from a dairy processor— supports its supplying organic dairy farms in achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.
PETALUMA, Calif., (January 22, 2024) Kefir is a cultured, fermented milk beverage similar to yogurt, but with a drinkable consistency and more tangy taste.
Simply Recipes
I recently tasted California-based Straus Family Creamery eggnog and I am a convert.
Forbes
The ice cream of your childhood dreams is deliciously reinvented at Coucou in Venice, California. The oversized vanilla soft serve is a twisted updo of Straus Family Creamery ice cream served in a celery green parfait glass.
Sustainable Brands
Straus Family Creamery is included in World Wildlife Fund (WWF)'s new report. It examines the efficacy of rewards for climate-smart on-farm practices in getting suppliers’ help in eliminating Scope 3 emissions.
CBS News Bay Area
For several years during the drought, environmentalists criticized the National Park service for its management of a Tule Elk reserve at Tomales Point in western Marin County. But recently, a change was announced to the management plan that has the entire region up in arms.
Capital Press
There are a lot of firsts in Albert Straus’ farming history. Straus Dairy Farm was the first certified organic dairy farm west of the Mississippi River, and Straus Family Creamery was the first certified organic creamery in the United States.
PETALUMA, Calif., (May 11, 2023) — The FDA is now recommending that alternative milk products with the word “milk” in their names, and which have a nutrient composition different from dairy milk, include a voluntary nutrition statement explaining how the product stacks up to animal-derived milk.
SCP serves the residents and businesses in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties clean energy from more renewable resources, such as geothermal, wind, and solar.
PETALUMA, Calif., (March 6, 2023) — Just in time for spring weather ahead, Straus Family Creamery introduces two new premium organic ice cream flavors: Lemon Cookie and Caramel Swirl at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim this week.
Epicurious
You’re strolling the aisles of your local market. You arrive at the cool, glowing refrigerator cases of the dairy section, poised to make a quick decision about what you’ll pour into your next glass of homemade boba or rich batch of pots de crème.
Associated Press for Washington Post
Organic dairy and other livestock farmers are seeking emergency federal aid as they grapple with skyrocketing organic feed costs, steep fuel and utility expenses as well as the consequences of drought in many parts of the country.
The North Bay Business Journal
One agricultural customer that chooses to pay for clean energy on its utility bills is Straus Family Creamery.
Comstock Magazine
Straus Family Creamery founder and CEO Albert Straus isn’t waiting. He plans to incorporate Brominata into the everyday diet at Straus Dairy Farm by the end of 2023, part of his goal to make the farm carbon neutral by that deadline.
Barista Magazine
Milk is familiar to most of us. Not just a drink for children, it’s also often consumed by adults and is of course one of the key ingredients at cafés. But you may be unfamiliar with the processing that milk undergoes before reaching the market, and one such process is homogenization.
KRCB Northern California Public Media
After decades of growing demand, drought and a far-away war are laying low local organic dairy farmers and processors. Without cash soon, it's feared several local dairy operators may soon close up shop.
