Cows

We are home to a beautiful and diverse herd of dairy cows including the following breeds: Holstein, Jersey, Dutch Belted, & American Milking Shorthorn.

If you visit in the late spring or summer, the herd may be seen grazing in our lush pastures in the late afternoons and evenings. Our farmers follow a rotational grazing practice to insure the animals’ access to fresh pastures. These areas are surrounded by electric fences- so please be careful not to touch!

During your late fall and winter visits to the farm, you will see the cows resting in the barnyard and in their free-stall barn, adjacent to our main milking barn. They continue to enjoy a grass-based diet as they consume bales of hay (over 2,000 bales during the winter months!) that was cut from our pastures and those of our neighbors.

There are usually fourteen cows in residence and of these, four or five are in the milking rotation at any one time. They are milked morning and afternoon. We pasteurize almost every other day in our State Licensed Dairy, so customers are treated to freshest milk in the area! Our milk is not homogenized so our cream rises to the top- you can shake the bottle for rich creamy milk, or skim it off to make butter.

The Dairy Annex (attached to the Milking Barn and accessed from our circular driveway) offers milk and yogurt for sale from 7am to 7pm daily.