A Visit to the Dungeness Valley Creamery

I am on a quest to get back to a way of life

like I grew up in on my Grandparents Farm.

We had our own milk cows, my Grampa used to

run a small dairy farm. I milked cows and made

butter from the fresh cream risen from the

raw, unprocessed milk.

Since I have been married, we have had beef cattle

but no milk cows. I am hoping to get some goats and/or

sheep and would like to milk them, and perhaps even a little Jersey cow.

Until that dream is realized, I will need to purchase the milk.

I recently discovered that farm fresh, raw unprocessed milk

is delivered to a drop point in our little town from the

Dungeness Valley Creamery in Sequim, Washington.

I will purchase my milk from them until I can get my own.

I hope to make my own yogurt, butter, sour cream and maybe even

try my hand at cheese!

We were invited to an open house at the Dairy and I just couldn't

pass up the opportunity to see just where my milk was coming from.

Come along with the Gentleman Farmer and I on our little visit,

won't you please?

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The view from the farm in the beautiful Dungeness Valley.

We were greeted by sweet little calves on this glorious sunshiny day!

Newborns, only a day or two old, in the barn.

Curious!

'Elementary' age!

Eating up the sweet alfalfa hay.

Below ~ teenagers!

They name all their girls.

This is Edith!

No wonder the milk is so sweet and delicious ~

they can help themselves to a snack of molasses

(to which I believe minerals have been added.)

Heifers

(Young ladies in waiting. A heifer is a young female

cow that has not had a calf. You can only get milk

from a cow that has recently had a calf.)

Lunchtime!

Some of the ladies who deliver the goods!

The milking parlor.

So nice and clean!

Happy, healthy cows produce healthy, delicious milk!

Testimonials ~

So good it makes you smile!

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"I have come down to deliver them...to a good and spacious land,

to a land flowing with milk and honey"

Exodus 3:8