Chris Couch owns and manages Dreaming Tree Farms, a small farm outside of Richmond, Virginia that sells prepackaged salad kits for a weekly-delivered subscription service under the name Farm-To-Salad. He started out as a hobby farmer in 2009 and in 2017 decided to leave his job as a management consultant to pursue a more fulfilling career growing healthy food for his community…
FTCLDF Cases
Updates and press releases on the various cases handled or funded by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF or the "Fund") are posted below. Click on the titles below to view the full post.
If you have questions about any of the cases, you may contact us online, email us at [email protected] or call 703-208-FARM (3276).
Local Government Tries to Shut Down Virginia Farm
Our whole fiasco with the government trying to shut our farm down came on a Monday in mid-March and began with a call from one of our chefs we sell to. He notified us that the local Loudon County health inspector came into his restaurant, impound stickers in hand, and…
The Battle for Raw Butter Continues
On February 27, 2020, four years after the Petition filed by FTCLDF and member Organic Pastures Dairy Company, the FDA issued a decision denying our request to permit the interstate sales of raw butter. We now plan to challenge this decision, asking the federal court to overturn the…
Victory for Sheriff the Dog and Right-to-Farm
The Farrises have a livestock guardian dog named Sheriff to protect their fruit and livestock on their 23-acre farm in California. All is well until a new neighbor moves in…
2019 Accomplishments
This has been quite the year! We would like to share with you the many achievements we have made in the food freedom movement. It gives us great joy to continue to be involved in this movement and to fight for farmers, artisanal producers, homesteaders and consumers across the country.