Articles from Straus Family Creamery

Beginning April 2026, Straus Family Creamery’s organic, super-premium ice cream pints and quarts will be available for the first time at Whole Foods Market stores nationwide.

The Organic Trade Association (OTA) has honored Albert Straus, founder of Straus Family Creamery and a second-generation organic dairy farmer, with its prestigious Organic Lifetime Achievement Award. A pioneer in organic dairy farming and sustainable agriculture, Straus has been at the forefront of advancing carbon-neutral dairy farming models that are shaping the future of organic food and agriculture.

Kicking off the new year with an expansion of its line of organic super premium ice cream, Straus Family Creamery – a pioneer in sustainable, regenerative, and organic dairy farming practices – will introduce a new flavor in late January: Cookie Dough.

Albert Straus, founder of Straus Family Creamery, joined representatives from dairy organizations worldwide in signing the Global Dairy Sustainability Declaration at the International Dairy Federation's 2024 World Dairy Summit in Paris, France, taking place from October 15 to 18. This declaration represents a critical step toward transforming the global dairy sector, emphasizing the need for coordinated climate action and sustainable farming practices to ensure a future that balances environmental health, global food security, and rural farming communities.

Straus Family Creamery, known for its minimally processed, premium organic dairy products and leadership in sustainable organic farming, today 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. This significant equity investment provides Straus Family Creamery with the necessary capital to grow the business and support its mission of sustaining family farms, revitalizing rural communities, and building a more regenerative food system.

A new technology—100% electric heat pump refrigeration— at Straus Family Creamery will contribute to a sustainable transformation of the commercial cold storage sector, reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), improving energy efficiency and demand flexibility, saving energy costs, and applying advanced defrost controls. Partners Alter Engineers, Avida Energy, DMG North, Flow Environmental Systems, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ProspectSV, and Straus Family Creamery are proud to be working together on the project, which, funded by the California Energy Commission, is a first of its kind.

Straus Family Creamery, renowned for its minimally processed premium organic dairy products and leadership in sustainable organic farming, announces its new Organic Dairy Sustainability Incentive Program, and new farm partnerships as it celebrates a 30-year legacy of environmental stewardship and organic dairy products.

Straus Family Creamery—renowned for its minimally processed premium organic dairy products and leadership in sustainable and regenerative carbon farming practices—announces the launch of its organic lowfat kefirs, available in two flavors—Plain and Blueberry. As with its milk and cream, the kefir is packaged in the brand’s iconic reusable glass bottles to support the mission-driven company's 30-year tradition in climate-resilient practices, sustainable organic farming, and zero-waste goals.

Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published draft guidance for public comment to help establish appropriate labeling of plant-based products that are marketed and sold as milk alternatives. 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. Straus Family Creamery supports this FDA recommendation.

Just in time for spring weather ahead, Straus Family Creamery, a pioneer in innovative sustainable organic dairy farming practices, introduces two new organic super premium ice cream flavors: Lemon Cookie and Caramel Swirl at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim this week.

Straus Family Creamery, a certified organic creamery whose mission is to sustain family farms and revitalize rural communities, organized the newly formed group named Western Organic Dairy Farming Crisis Coalition. Organic dairy producers and agricultural industry supporters are part of the coalition seeking immediate emergency drought relief assistance for organic dairy farmers. The drought has created a dramatic increase in feed costs (up to 50 percent), feed shortages, and drought-related operating costs.

Straus Family Creamery Founder and CEO Albert Straus’ goal of a carbon-neutral dairy farming model on his farm by 2023 is one step closer. California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) authorized commercial use of Blue Ocean Barns’ red seaweed supplement as a feed additive for dairy cows. The decision followed a highly successful trial at Straus Organic Dairy Farm in West Marin, the largest and longest yet conducted with seaweed and dairy cows, proving to dramatically reduce their enteric methane emissions (cow burps) by an average of 52 percent and as much as 90 percent.

Straus Family Creamery's founder Albert Straus and seaweed-supplement maker Blue Ocean Barns demonstrated a dramatic climate change solution, reducing dairy cows’ enteric methane emissions an average of 52 percent, and as much as 90 percent, by supplementing their diets with a specific red seaweed (Asparagopsis taxiformis). These reduction results were part of the first commercial trial in the United States using this red seaweed on a dairy farm, illustrating that innovative dairy farming can substantially reduce its climate impact.

Straus Family Creamery, the first 100 percent organic creamery in the United States, has moved its production plant from its original home of 27 years in Marshall to a new facility in Rohnert Park. The new creamery, a 50,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility, is producing its entire line of 72 retail and foodservice organic dairy products made from certified organic milk from 12 small-scale family farms, averaging 250 cows per dairy, in Marin and Sonoma Counties.

Straus Family Creamery, a leader in climate-positive organic dairy farming innovation, announces the evolution in a first-of-its-kind collaboration with BMW Group. Through California Air Resources Board’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Program, BMW can “power” their customers’ electric vehicles with ultra-low carbon intensity electric fuel produced from biodigester technology on the Straus Organic Dairy Farm. The BMW collaboration strengthens Albert Straus’ vision to create a replicable carbon-neutral farming model on his farm, and it provides an opportunity for California dairy farmers to generate new income sources.