Hay… not just for cows
Lew and Aaron stack haylage bales on a trailer truck for the deer farm.
Today was a busy day at the farm. In addition to milking and the usual chores, Thursday’s our day to get hay down. (We drop a week’s worth of square bales down through the hay holes and stack them in front of the cows. We are currently feeding dry hay in the mornings and haylage in the afternoons.) We also loaded some round bales for our friends who have a Red Deer farm in Linneus. We hear that the deer love eating hay and haylage from our farm and are doing really well this winter. We’re looking forward to going to visit them very soon.
We’re also getting ready to travel to Westbrook tomorrow for the MOOMilk launch. We are very excited to see the first batch of MOOMilk come off the production line at Smiling Hill Farm and be loaded on a truck for delivery to grocery stores in Maine this Saturday. This is great news for consumers AND family farms in Maine. Go, MOOMilk!
For more info on MOOMilk, please visit www.moomilkco.com. Here’s an excerpt from a recent press release:
“The start of the production marks a new step in the recovery of the Maine dairy industry. MOOMilk with be produced and processed entirely in Maine, with trucking, processing and delivery all done by Maine family businesses. Ninety percent of the profits from the sale of the milk will go to the family farms producing the milk. MOOMilk is not a cooperative, but a low-profit company with a mission of helping Maine organic family dairy farms survive by earning a fair price for their milk.”
What a beautiful site. Love the pictures. Very inspiring to see a developing organic network and company in Maine. I recently attended a sustainability in dairy conference here in Madison, WI and so I am tooling around reading about dairy tonight. I am usually into the energy side of sustainability, but the conference was really interesting…I wrote about it at my blog if you are interested. Best of luck to Maine dairy farmers and to your farm.
Hi – I came upon your blog from the MooMilk web site. Your pictures are absolutely beautiful and I love your site. We buy organic and locally raised food and are big supporters of this so we’ll definitely be keeping an eye out for MooMilk. Good luck and I hope MooMilk is a huge success.