Moving to a New Creamery + Raw Butter Coming Soon!
Hello from snowy Middlebrook, Va!
I hope this finds you well. We are in the middle of a rough patch of weather: 10 inches of snow + above-freezing temps = ground that is challenging to drive tractors and equipment on. Next week's weather looks the same.
We're making do and getting creative in order to keep the cows well-fed and bedded in their fields. And we are counting down the days until Spring!
We have several exciting announcements to share in the coming weeks – you can read the first announcements today!
As you may know, our family and team have been working hard behind the scenes on major plans for Creambrook Farm herd shares in 2025.
It's taken months to get to this point and we're so excited to share this journey with you. You'll get to be a part of it and see everything come together.
The first announcement is that we are leasing a Creamery space!
When we moved here with two young boys almost eight years ago, we started with a handful of cows and 20 herd share members. Ben and I couldn't have dreamed how much the need for wholesome Raw Milk would grow!
Over the past year, our little on-farm milk house & bottling space has gotten increasingly cramped. We have made upgrades to accommodate the growth but are beyond capacity at this point. Our bottling & distribution team has been amazing for making this small space work.
This Spring, our bottling equipment and delivery trucks will move to the nearby town of Stuarts Draft, Va. Our farm and cows (and us!) are staying right here in Middlebrook, so don't worry. :)
Photos above show the leased Creamery space. Most of this equipment will move out before we move our own equipment in, so the space will look different when we are settled in, but this gives you an idea. :)
So, how will this work?
Our cows are milked in Middlebrook on our farm. The milk is filtered and chilled during the milking process, and held in the bulk tank. The milk will be transported 20 minutes down the road to the new Creamery in Stuarts Draft, and then bottled and distributed by our team to all of our pick up locations.
Every step is carefully managed by our family and Creambrook team. This isn't a co-packing, outsourced deal. We will have some office space for our team to work in-house and a lot of walk-in cooler space. It will not be a retail space, however, so any on-farm events will be in Middlebrook on our farm.
It's so exciting!!
More production floor space means we can pursue a passion project that Ben and I have dreamed of for years…
New Product Coming Spring 2025: Raw Butter from Our Cows!
We are excited to offer much-requested and highly anticipated Raw Butter! So many of you have asked us for Raw Butter over the years!
We are making an initial first batch of Raw Butter this Spring, with plans to produce more later on this year.
Golden-yellow from our grass-fed cows, you will love this fresh cream Raw Butter, salted with our favorite, high quality Redmond Real Salt.
It will be offered to our Herd Share Members in 1 lb paper-wrapped packages.
Additional details such as pricing, placing orders, and availability will come closer to launch. We thank you for your patience until more details are shared.
Below is a concept of our butter label. It's not the official label, but I couldn't wait to show you the concept of what we have designed!
Thank you for being here on the journey with us! We can't wait to share some more really big news next week, so we'll see you then!
