My family has enjoyed raw milk from our own cow for the last eight years. Some friends have shown interest in obtaining raw milk for their family. Raw milk is milk that has not been pasteurized. Some believe raw milk to be very good for you while others believe that raw milk consumption is not healthy. My family has had only good results. Please educate yourself on raw milk to be responsible and make your best decision. A search on the Internet should give you much information. Virginia Law only allows human consumption of raw milk from your own cow. We are now making available to you ownership in a cow so you can enjoy raw milk from your own cow. You buy the number of shares you want, based on how much milk you want, and we charge you a boarding fee.
We require a Cow Boarding Contract for those who wish to own shares in a dairy cow and board the cow at the above address. This contract is a legal and binding agreement. The contract is necessary to allow families who don't live on a farm to own a cow and get raw milk from it, and to protect our farm from unnecessary liability. Please email me (hollygrovefarm@juno.com) with any questions you may have.
1 share in a cow will yield approximately 1 gallon of milk per week.
Purchasing 1 share will cost a onetime fee of $100 representing one 20th of a cow which cost about $2,000.00 and is good for about 3 years.
The monthly boarding fee for 1 share is $25.
The raw milk you pick up from Holly Grove Farm will not be pasteurized or homogenized and the cow will be fed no hormones or antibiotics. One gallon of milk will have about one quart of pure cream at the top which can either be skimmed off or stirred in. One quart of cream is about $3 on the store shelf and the other ¾ gallon of milk costs about $3 on the store shelf, so your boarding fee to milk received ratio shows a good value.
The cream is excellent for making butter, ice cream or coffee creamer. Some with lactose intolerance to pasteurized store bought milk have found this raw milk to have no negative affects probably due to the live enzymes in raw milk. If share are not available you may prepurchase shares. When enough shares are prepurchased to afford purchase of an additional cow, I will help the share owners find a cow and bring it to our farm.
If shares are available and you would like to purchase shares and enter into a boarding agreement, then please request a contract, fill out and enclose a check for the shares you wish to purchase and your first month boarding fee. I will send you a bill of sale and call you to arrange pickup of your milk.
Suggestion for milk pickup: If five or ten individuals from the Peninsula or Va. Beach bought shares in this plan, they could take turns picking up the milk each week and each person would only need to make the trip once every 5 or 10 weeks.
The farm is located about 50 minutes from Norfolk's Downtown Tunnel and the same distance from the James River Bridge. We are 20 minutes from Franklin. We are 30 minutes from Suffolk. We are 10 minutes from Zuni.
A Cow Boarding Agreement (Contract) can be requested, filled out and mailed with a check to purchase and board your share of a dairy cow. Pick up of your milk is your responsibilty. A bill of sale will be provided by return mail.
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