I am well aware that come very early spring, I will have more milk per day on the farm then I have ever had and I will be honest, when I was getting a gallon of goats milk per day, I struggled to find enough uses for it in the house but given that Girl will most likely give me around six gallons, I am planning on feeding skim milk to the different critters to help cut feed costs and are going into it knowing this.. X amount to the calf, X amount to the house and X amount for critter use..

I have not had pork that was raised on fresh milk in many, many years! but look forward to finding out if the real thing is still as good as my mind remembers it..

I can’t wait to introduce my hubby to homemade cultured grass-fed butter, because honestly there is nothing quite like it.. I have already decided that next year will be year of the cheese, when if I mess up making a cheese, it won’t matter, it can go to the pigs or the chickens and there will be lots of milk the next day to try again.

Everyone on the farm is dry right now, and there is no where local to me to get fresh bottled whole milk from a small dairy, I am craving it to the point that i am darn near ready to drive to kingston and pick up a couple bottles as that is the closest small farm dairy that I can get to.. I have one ewe due in Dec and she is a very heavy milker, even if she has twins it won’t be hard to get a pint a day off of her in the first part of her cycle, but that is still a long ways off..

Do you ever get this same craving when your milking critters dry up for the year?