WHAT ARE RAW MILK BENEFITS?
Raw milk is milk as it comes out of the mammal that produced it. We machine milk our cows in a modern concrete and steel parlor with pipeline and automatic take offs. When the milk leaves the cows, it collects in a sealed stainless steel receiver in the parlor and then a level controller directs the pump to pump it through a stainless steel pipeline, through a filter, and into the bulk cooling tank. The tank cools the milk within 30 to 60 minutes to 33 degrees Farenheit.
Four times per week, we bottle the milk without pasteurization or homogenization. It pumps directly from the bulk cooling tank to a stainless steel bottling vat and goes straight into clean and sanitized glass bottles. Those bottles are then loaded onto a refrigerated delivery truck kept at 35 degrees F and delivered to retail grocery stores throughout three counties of North Idaho.
Each bottling batch is tested in our on-farm lab for Standard Plate Count (SPC) and Coliform Count. Each batch must be below the rigid common standards as set forth by the Raw Milk Institute.
PBS Food Forward Program on Raw Milk
PBS did a very high quality program for Food Forward on raw milk and milk products. This is a long video, but is well worth watching!
CDC Warning
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that raw, unpasteurized milk may contain harmful bacteria. Pregnant women, children, the elderly and persons with lowered resistance to disease have the highest risk of harm from use of unpasteurized products.
In light of their warning, and their reputation for dispensing accurate health advice without undue outside and political influence, we encourage you to use discretion when choosing raw milk and raw milk products for your consumption.
Sheryl Webb
I have been lactose intolerant from the time I was a baby. I would get a terrible stomach ache. If I were to drink/eat raw milk products will I still get the stomach ache? I am now 77 and never drink milk but do eat a tiny bit of cheese. Even goat cheese bothers my stomach.
Paul Herndon
The only way to know is give it a try. We hear stories all the time of exactly your situation being able to drink raw, A2A2 milk with no issues.
SM
I have witnessed the benefits of high quality raw milk in a number of cases. Several friends got over purported lactose intolerance and other gastro-intestinal issues. Keep up the good work!
pauline macqueen
do you test your milk for pathogens?
Paul Herndon
We test for coliform and occasionally for pathogens.
Paul Heggenberger
Hello,
Do you sell cream and do you sell larger than 1/2 gallon amounts?
Paul Herndon
Hello Paul,
Because we are in glass containers, anything larger than half gallon becomes too heavy. Also, we do not sell separated cream at this current time.
Laura B
Is it possible to pick up a “same day” milking from your farm?
Paul Herndon
Hello Laura, we do not sell directly to the consumer. However, our “same day” milk goes directly to 12 local retail stores in our three northern counties.
Tia
Just read about everything I could on your site and my how enlightening it is to be able to finally have access to raw milk right at my local store!! And your cows are being treated in the most natural way possible. Please never stop, you guys are amazing!
Paul Herndon
Thank you Tia. We appreciate your kind input!
Jeannie
Im obsessed with your milk and own property by Springy Point off Lakeshore.. Iwe own a small petfood company and I’m obsessed with high quality foods coming from great stewardship. Halfway through ready your stories I was excited to believe I could buy land near you and help with overflow.. then I read your challenges and thought I better wait till I find a man to help me. WOW..WOW..& WOW — NEVER COMPROMISING YOUR GIRLS IS WHAT IMPRESSED ME THE MOST- (and your values & interprets of course)
Do you know a small nongmo farm I could possibly source ‘approximately’
3-600pounds of beef, lamb, pork and chicken per month? We both know a lot folks say their animals (steer, lamb etc) are nongmo.. (;-() but I thought since you hold the greatest interprets you might have a friend?
Still interested in nearby land to raise overflow;-))
Passionate woman,
Jeannie O’Donnell
(949) 637-4994
Morgan Lohman
Are there any stores in Coeur d’Alene that sell your milk?
Paul Herndon
Pilgrim’s Market and Super 1 Foods.
Martha
Love your CDC warning re raw milk and their “acurate advice”.!!
Stan
Im in Bayview where can I buy your milk thanks
Paul Herndon
Super 1 Athol is the closest store to you that stocks our milk.
Natalie Richie
Hi,
The raw cream has not been available at Pilgrams for several weeks now. Would you please tell me when the cream will be available again? Also, which other stores carry the heavy cream. I’ve never seen it at Super One Foods. Maybe they carry it but I’m not there at the right time.
Thank you,
Natalie
Paul Herndon
Heavy cream is a product we’re only able to make when we are able to meet minimum orders for whole milk at all stores that carry our product. Cream is then sold at Pilgrim’s, Winter Ridge, and Yoke’s in Post Falls, and a few select other stores as available. Right now, our production is generally down due to seasonal fluctuations and pre-calving vacations of multiple cows.
It is difficult to predict with certainty when cream will return to the shelves, though it’s possible it will be mid-December.
Kristy Cook
Hi. Have been buying your delicious milk for several years now from Pilgrims Market in CDA. Wondering if there is any nutritional facts for the milk. Wanting to add to my fitness pal for nutrition content.
Thank you
Paul Herndon
We have not had the full nutrition profile analyzed. We can tell you milkfat percentage is between 4.8 and 5.2% generally. This can vary depending on season and even from one day to the next.