The modern world of dairy farming has traded green pastures and grazing cows for crowded feedlots and grain-based feeds. A combination of increased grain prices and a domination of the industry by large corporations makes it extremely difficult for small farmers to be profitable. Large companies source milk from hundreds of different farms; once mixed in tanks and packaged under a single label name, who’s to know where in the country that milk came from and what practices those farmers used?
Hawthorne Valley Creamery is a biodynamic farm, following organic practices and more. It thinks of a farm as a living self-sustaining organism that should use everything that is created right on the farm with a holistic approach to any problems. In the winter, the cows must be fed hay (half of which is required to be produced on their own farm), they must implement rotational grazing so the animals are developing the soil & fertilizing all of the farmland. No imported feed, antibiotics, or hormones are used during the animal's lifecycle and only homeopathic solutions are used to treat problems. Talk about organic!
Growing up in Upstate NY, I’ve always lived sustainably but it was hard to find ways to do that in NYC until I started getting my food through Local Roots NYC. With my busy schedule, I didn’t have time to do all the research for products that aligned with my values, but I trust the farmers and brands Local Roots works with.
Ashley M.
Local Roots member
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