Raw Milk in NH (goat and cow)
Charlestown: Ivy Bower, Nubians. Farm fresh raw goat’s milk from the sweetest Nubians around! Fresh eggs, too! Jen Girard, 205 Old Claremont Road, Charlestown, NH. (603) 826-9976 JenG193@yahoo.com.
Peterborough: Dancing Dog Farm & the Backyard Farm Institute, Web: www.dancingdogfarm.wordpress.com. Raw goat’s and cow’s milk on occasion, (seasonal), raw goat’s milk yogurt in the spring of 2011, homesteading classes (including cheesemaking), treatment free honey, organic maple syrup, and fresh brewed actively aerated organic compost tea for seedlings, lawns, veggie gardens and crops.
Peterborough: Sunnyfield Farm, 197 Greenfield Road, Peterborough, NH 03458, Dan and Ruth Holmes, 603-924-4436, email: sunnyfield@crotchedmountain.org , http://www.sunnyfieldfarm.org, raw milk, eggs, beef, organic vegetables.
Swanzey: Cornerstone Farm, Glen Hurd, 197 Forest Ave., Swanzey, NH 03446 (603)357-4361, Fax: (603) 352-2508, i_luv_swiss@hotmail.com . They milk Brown Swiss cows, sell raw milk, cream, veal, pork, and beef. Their excess milk is fed to humanely raised veal calves and pigs. They feed their cows feed that is produced using organic principles and treat them using homeopathic remedies.
Walpole: Great Brook Farm, 247 County Road, Walpole, NH 03608. Farm store name is The Milkhouse. Raw milk in 1/2 gallon glass, 1/2 gallon plastic and 1 gallon plastic. Open farmers’ hours 6am-8pm 365 days a year. They welcome farm visits. The farm is a 10 generation family farm with 3 generations working on the farm now. The farm was established in 1761 and it has been passed down from father to son and has always been used as a dairy farm. They make their own hay and corn and milk 70-80 holsteins depending on the time of year. For further information you can call 603-756-3661.
Alstead: Flying Cloud Dairy, 426 Hill Road, Alstead, NH 03602, (603) 835-2519. Certified organic raw milk from grass-fed jersey cows. The cows eat grass in the summer and hay and balage in the winter. Call farmer Bill Jahos to learn more about his other products including meats and raw cream. Raw milk sold in half-gallon glass bottles from the farm, and at Hannah Grimes Marketplace in Keene, Orchard Hill Breadworks in Alstead, and Nature’s Green Grocer in Peterborough.
