Julie & Fairlight - 1983

Holly & Cello

Piney River Piper

Photos Copyright Julie Atkinson

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Our love of dairying began in the mid-1980's, when we bought our first Jersey cow, Fairlight. We milked her by hand, and reveled in the pleasure of drinking our own fresh milk and eating butter and cheeses made in our farmhouse kitchen. As time passed, we purchased more Jerseys and began our own Grade A dairy where we eventually milked 26 Jerseys and sold our milk on the commodity market. It was a happy time in our first years of farming - a time we are ready to relive as we introduce Greenwood Farms Raw Milk.

In keeping with our commitment to produce healthy foods, raised in harmony with nature, our raw milk is free of antibiotics, hormones, and the other chemicals commonly found in store-bought dairy products. We are the first and only Grade A Raw Milk Dairy in the state of Missouri and take great pride in continually surpassing the state's requirements for cleanliness of both our milking parlor and the milk itself.

Our Jersey cows are more than just livestock: They are family. We are grateful for the wonderful milk they share with us and we see it as our duty to reward them with the best living and "working" conditions possible.

Our cows live on pasture year-round and eat a diet of fresh, green grass all summer and leafy alfalfa hay in winter as well as antibiotic free pelleted feed, to help them maintain their milk production.

Our new dairy-barn, built in 2008, is a regular "cow spa," complete with air-conditioning in summer, heat in winter, and state-of-the-art milking equipment to pamper the cows' udders while they are being milked. The cows are milked twice-a-day, and every milking includes a meal of tasty feed and a warm-water udder-wash, to help the cows relax and encourage them to give freely of their milk. Its the least we can do for our Jersey Girls.

Our philosophy is best summed up in a quote by W.D. Hoard, founder of Hoard's Dairyman magazine, in 1885 and presented here as artwork created by Julie Atkinson: