Re: Self Intro of Ellen Ussery, Hume, VA

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>>And the results today werethat my bones had improved!!!(I must say here that I also culturedmost of the milk, took Cod Liver Oil and Butter OIl as well asdrinking lots of bone broths.Ellen<<

~~~I'm new to the group too, but I guess I can still say 'Welcome'. :-)

I'm delighted to hear your news, because I've been diagnosed with osteopenia too and am trying the very same things that have helped you, so it gives me encouragement!

Thanks for posting that!

Oh, by the way, I've been taking cod liver oil all along, so I doubt that's what helped, because mine has only gotten worse. It's probably the dairy products and bone broths, I would imagine. (Not to say CLO isn't very important for other things, however!)

Carol

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> My name is Ellen Ussery and I live with my husband Harvey in the

> increasingly less rural village of Hume, Virginia (Fauquier County)

> We have been here for over twenty years and our intention has always

> been to produce as much of our own food as possible. >

> Ellen

Hi Ellen, We're prctically neighbors. I live in Middleburg and I

travel that hour every week to Winchester to get my milk. Soon,

though my husband and I will have a place so that I can have my own

animals and a garden too. Welcome aboard!

Therese Vista Hoover

Middleburg, VA

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> My name is Ellen Ussery and I live with my husband Harvey in the

> increasingly less rural village of Hume, Virginia (Fauquier County)

> We have been here for over twenty years and our intention has always

> been to produce as much of our own food as possible. >

> Ellen

Hi Ellen, We're prctically neighbors. I live in Middleburg and I

travel that hour every week to Winchester to get my milk. Soon,

though my husband and I will have a place so that I can have my own

animals and a garden too. Welcome aboard!

Therese Vista Hoover

Middleburg, VA

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I have just been approved to this very " exclusive " group! I am honored!

I am delighted to see you on this list, Ellen! We meet again! I now feel right

at home. I

wish I lived by you so I could taste your homemade butter - any tips for making

it? I have

yet to follow Sally's recipe in Nourishing Traditions.

Sandrine

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> My name is Ellen Ussery and I live with my husband Harvey in the

> increasingly less rural village of Hume, Virginia (Fauquier County)

> We have been here for over twenty years and our intention has always

> been to produce as much of our own food as possible. We have a large

> garden and greenhouse, raise poultry for both meat and eggs and, for

> the first ten years, we kept goats, whose milk we drank by the gallon

> and from which we made delicious cheese and ice cream. For various

> reasons we gave up dairy products for a while. This was in our

> Macrobiotic (Macropsychotic) phase. When we found this was not giving

> us the health results we sought, we tried Weston A Price's principles,

> which seemed to suit us just fine.

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> Since raw milk was then and still is illegal in Virginia, we drove to

> PA to purchase raw butter and raw milk. A year later we joined a

> newly formed cowshare program that was about an hour away, but at

> least in the same state. Last winter a neighbor with a successful

> goat dairy expressed interest in starting a cowshare program, we

> helped her get it started. At present we have three Jersey cows and

> have had to turn away a number of prospective shareholders. I am the

> official buttermaker and fill in with other duties when Heidi (yes,

> that's her name) has to be away. I am also the one with the computer

> and it is my job to gather information.

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> We love this precious food and want to be sure it remains available to

> us and that it will become more readily available to others. That is

> my purpose in joining this group .

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> As far as health benefits go, when Harvey had his bare hands in the

> dirt all day last Spring while starting the garden he noticed that

> they were smooth and soft and he wasn't even putting lotion on them.

> Usually at that time of the year his hands feel like sandpaper and

> lotion only changes them from extremely coarse to semi coarse.

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> And wait..how's this for timing? As i wrote the last paragraph my

> doctor's office called with the results of my recent bone scan. Two

> years ago I was told I had osteopenia and must take Fosamax. Well,

> I didn't----I joined a cowshare program! And the results today were

> that my bones had improved!!!(I must say here that I also cultured

> most of the milk, took Cod Liver Oil and Butter OIl as well as

> drinking lots of bone broths.

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> I am really looking forward to joining this group and being a part of

> the larger Raw Milk community.

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> Ellen