Raw milk etc...

[Nat]

Hi. does anyone know where I can get raw unpasterized milk, raw honey and grass/pasture fed meat and chicken. At a reasonable price?

[Miss Kenni]

A very quick use of the Search button turns up: http://ourbelize.net/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1942&p=18149&hilit=raw+milk#p18149.

In Belize, it's hard to find meat that is not pasture/grass fed. But I don't think chickens eat grass ...

Reasonable price is, of course, a matter of opinion. Kenni

[woodsman]

Chickens will eat grass and other greens, bugs, worms, larvae, small frogs and other nasty stuff if let run lose. We even let the broilers run free after 4-5 weeks of brooding but they're not the best scavengers and due to fast growth they require a lot more supplemental grain than "local" chickens. All our chickens get a mix of corn, milo, wheat bran and soybean meal. We figure they get enough animal type protein, vitamins and minerals free ranging.

Young local roosters go for 3 BZD a pound live. White broilers 2.5 plucked.

You can get raw cow milk from Rudi in Succotz at 5 BZD a gallon.

Most beekeepers sell honey through cooperatives though I'm not sure if they pasteurize it.

[Zelda]

home-bottled honey is available most Saturdays at the San Ignacio market.

Rudy Juan has a small vegetable stand "DON MANUEL'S" on the Western Highway, at the turn-off to Black Rock Lodge... you can contact him there to arrange purchase of raw cow's milk.

by 'pastured' chicken, I assume you mean "free range" birds, not kept cooped up all their lives.

in this area they're called "local chickens" (as opposed to the white Cornish Cross broilers produced and processed en masse in Spanish Lookout by the Mennonites.

you can often find local chickens for sale at the San Ignacio Saturday market, but better go early, they sell fast.

Welcome to Our Belize, Nat, glad you could stop by... where do you live, and where are you from ?

[Nat]

Thanks to everyone for the reply. I live in Ladyville. Originally from Canada but have lived in Belize several years. Just recently became interested in raw milk and grass fed meat etc.. Didn't know you could get these things here. Does anyone have a phone number for rudy in succotz?

[woodsman]

I do have a phone number for Rudi's son. The problem is that the battery in my old Nokia went dead and now I can't get to any of the numbers which I never transfered to a notebook... Nobody seems to have this battery anymore either. Ain't that something... Built in obsolescence based on lack of batteries instead of a piece of electronic equipment breaking down. Must be the Finnish v. Chinese way of providing profits security.

Anyhow, you're talking around 60 BZD in cost of fuel for the round trip from Ladyville to Succotz - that would more than double the cost of 10 gallons of milk from 50 BZD to over a 100. Always best to ask some trusty locals around - that's how we found Rudi here. In the meantime keep on the lookout for cows and mooing - if they look like holsteins or swiss - rarely anyone would keep them for meat - they sure milk them and unless they have a contract with a dairy they're always on a lookout for new customers as their stock grows.