The Animals

 Our cow milk comes from a production partnership with Indian River Farm, whose cows have provided us with their milk for the past ten years, with an average herd size of 14.  To put that into perspective, the average Vermont dairy farm milks about 100 cows.  All of their cows are raised on open pasture when the weather allows it, and hay from those very fields through the colder months.  

Most milk in America is always pasteurized and almost always from large operations raising black-and-white Holstein cows.  That stuff is an entirely different product from what we get from Indian River.  Their cows, predominantly Jersey, produce milk with almost twice as much fat and protein as what you'd get in the supermarket, is rich in omega-3s, and even changes in flavor depending on which grasses they eat.