Mom's Dairy

[Guest guest]

Greetings. The new picture on our website is ROGER HARTMAN, a vital part of the

Mom's

Dairy operation. (If you are not reading this on the website, I encourage you to

try that

format as opposed to e-mail digest. You can find many other interesting

goings-on there).

is not only the person who brings the dairy to the city twice a week, he

is also

responsible for running the creamery where the milk is bottled and the butter,

cheese,

yogurt, and ice cream are made and packaged. It's a busy, wonderful place and

almost makes it look easy.

's brother MIKE HARTMAN is the herdsman and is responsible for the health

and

well-being of the herd as well as milking the cattle twice a day. He is assisted

by his wife

DIANE HARTMAN who, in typical " farm wife " fashion gets up at the crack of dawn

then

works hard until dark making things happen.

The dairy operation is assisted by Mike and 's parents, both of whome

continue to

work and help out as well as their children, the next generation of farmers.

Even the

grandchildren help out and are already learning some of the small tasks of

dairying.

Every day I count my blessings that we are so lucky to have families like the

Hartmans, the

Brunner's and many others and I encourage all of you to do everything you can to

keep

them and their farms healthy and alive.

Will Winter

[Guest guest]

, and all our new members. Be sure to check out our FILES and DATABASES.

You can

find out how to access not only all the good dairies in our area, but also

restaurants, CSA,

grass-fed meats, good fish, eggs, poultry, and much more.

Mom's is virtually SOLD-OUT all the time but you might be able to squeeze in for

FRESH MILK

and probably YOGURT and CHEESE The limiting factor (since 99% of the milk is

sold

" whole " (full fat), is that there is no fat left over to make butter, cream or

ice cream. And, by

the way, the only way to drink good grass-fed milk is WHOLE. The medicine is in

the fat.

Will Winter

[Guest guest]

> The limiting factor (since 99% of the milk is sold

> " whole " (full fat), is that there is no fat left over to make

butter, >cream or ice cream. And, by

> the way, the only way to drink good grass-fed milk is WHOLE. The

>medicine is in the fat.

Then who's ordering skim milk all the time? I see anywhere from 6 - 8

bottles of skim in the cooler each week.

Like Mark says: " Why bother? "

~Joe