“Blue,” the bull arrived Sunday as scheduled. He is a pleasant chap! My son thought he was going to be like in the rodeo or something, but he is quite calm, nice, and friendly. He is a Charbray/Angus cross so, since our cow is an Ayrshire dairy cow, we will not have a purebred dairy breed calf. However, if we get a heifer this time, I’ll probably keep her and will probably still get some great milk from her. Read more »

Well I just made the mistake of typing out like a 500-word post and managed to lose it. So I will just say we have quite a lot of raw cow milk and raw cream at the moment, and we only have one cow. You would think with only one cow we would not have such a surplus! But right now there are 24 half-gallon jars of cream in the fridge. The spare refrigerator that is. We either need to buy a new fridge or find more to do with the milk. Read more »

I introduced another friend of mine and her husband to the joys of raw milk last night. This week I MUST make some cheese because we have a surplus of milk. I keep saying that every day and I have not made any cheese in 2 weeks at least. But I am enjoying the cream this week, it’s made for some delicious coffee. Read more »

I’m certain that everyone who has read my previous posts has now gone out and either bought a cow, bought a share in a cow, or found a nearby farm of dairy cows and asked the owner kindly to supply them with some raw milk. Read more »