The Family Cow is Coming Back

There was a time when nearly every family had their own cow. Each morning and evening a family member would sit down on a three-legged milk stool to milk the cow. Then our lives got busier outside the home, dairies got bigger and people started to buy milk in cartons.

As the world population grows, many people have become concerned with how far their food has to travel before being set on their tables. The locavore movement is helping to bring back the family cow. In conjunction with this development, there has been a movement to allow sales of raw milk. Vermont and several other states have begun to allow people to purchase raw milk for their own, personnel consumption. In Vermont it is now legal to sell that raw milk to your immediate neighbors.

More and more families are choosing become more self-sufficient. They look for ways to eat locally and for ways to make less impact on our planet. A logical venture thus is to consider owning your own family cow. Steve Judge, one of my neighbors here in Royalton, Vermont has founded a company, Bob White Systems to help make that happen. You might think that a two income family would not have the time to care for their own family cow, but Steve assures me that that is not so. Owning 25 to 100 cows is a full-time job but owning one cow can be quite doable especially with the help of modern micro dairy equipment which Steve sells from his storefront in South Royalton.

With Steve's help you will soon have your own family cow with safe, fresh milk every day.

Steve can tell you how much milk your cow is likely to produce. The amount may surprise you. What could you do with all the left over milk? Of course if you have time you can make it into cheese and butter but you might just want to sell it to your neighbors. Here in Vermont that is once again possible.

Besides the obvious benefit of knowing where your milk comes from, sharing milk with your neighbors has the added benefit of creating a tight knit neighborhood community. As you plan for stabling and pasturing your cow, be sure to talk with your neighbors. They may be delighted to hear that they will soon be able to purchase fresh, healthy, wholesome milk right over the fence. You may even find that some of them are willing to help out when you need to be away.

Fresh unpasturized, unprocessed milk will soon be available right on your own property.

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