Michael and Karma Glos began their small, diversified organic farm in Berkshire, New York, located 20 miles east of Ithaca, in 1996. Since then, three of those years have included commercial operations.
They specialize in producing free-range organic meat (poultry, pork, beef) and organic herbs and specialty vegetables, and are certified by NOFA-NY Certified Organic LLC. All the vegetables, herbs and poultry are certified; the pork and beef are raised according to organic standards after 6 weeks of age.
The Glos' launched their business with no formal training, but relied on a love of farming and their experiences as farming apprentices.
There are many people around us that are just farmers. They just produce a product, especially like milk, and someone comes and picks it up and that's it. Someone that wants to do something differently and try to do it as well as we can, then we feel we have to really do a lot more than just that,...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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