Farm
Stories from SSAWG
Bergey
Dairy
Bergey
Dairy in Virginia operate a dairy that serves customers through
a delivery service, limited wholesale to grocery stores, and
homemade ice cream sold through their on-farm store.
Sweet
Home Farm
This
small scale dairy on the Gulf coast of Alabama makes farmstead
cheeses that they market directly to customers through farmers'
markets and their farm stand.
Mauthe
Dairy
South
Louisiana dairy that bottles their own milk for direct marketing
and wholesale. The Mauthe family also makes value-added
products like their celebrated Creole cream cheese.
Celebrity
Dairy
A
new well established goat dairy in North Carolina that began
as a start-up operation. After surviving the rigors
of regulation and licensing, they're producing and marketing
chevre in several varieties for direct marketing.
Twelve
Aprils Dairy Farm
Tom
Trantham of South Carolina runs a pasture-based dairying operation
that he transitioned from a confinement system in 1994. On-farm
bottling and sales through Happy Cow Creamery now offers his
products to eager customers.
Sweet
Grass Dairy & Green Hill Dairy
The
Wehner family pioneered grass based dairying in Georgia, now
running a 520 cow milking operation as well as a goat dairy
for making cheeses. |
photo
by David Poleski, Design Photography
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