How Much Milk?

Did you know it takes around 10 POUNDS of milk to make just 1 pound of cheese?!  To put this into perspective, a gallon of milk weighs 8.6 pounds, which means more than 1 gallon of milk is needed per pound of cheese.  That's a lot of milk!

Our grazing dairy cows average 50-60 pounds of high-quality milk or between 5-7 gallons per day.  This means that each week our cows produce 350-420 pounds of milk or 35-50 gallons each!  We typically milk between 10-18 cows, currently we are on the lower end milking 12 cows.  Each week our cows are producing 4,000-5,000 pounds of milk, which we turn into 400-500 pounds of cheese!  Hopefully, you're still with me and I haven't lost you in the math yet!  This equates to nearly a quarter of a MILLON pounds of milk produced by our girls per year and around 25,000 POUNDS of delicious artisan cheese.  While this sinks in, come on out and enjoy this cooler weather with cheese, wine, and one of Chef Keaton's pizzas too, Happy Fall!!!