TBF 031 :: Milking and Freezers and More, Farm Fun, and a Hard Lesson Learned

Micro-daries, cheese making, milking Dexter cows, and keeping our Crooked Gap Farm pork/chicken/beef/lamb frozen. Those are all topics on todays episode of The Beginning Farmer Show. Thanks to a great question from Scott in Minnesota I spend some time talking about why we aren't milking on the farm right now, and why it could possibly be an enterprise in the future. The biggest hang-up I have is the capital costs needed to do an enterprise involving milk or cheese for sale. Scott also gave me a great suggestion about using a walk-in freezer instead of our current set-up of a multitude of upright freezers. I think this is a great suggestion on many levels and I will be looking into it very closely this winter ... I hope!

Links Mentioned in This Episode

Crooked Gap Farm Hoop House Website Bob-White Systems Finger Lakes Dexter Creamery (A Dexter Micro-Dairy) Farm Crawl

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