S3E13: Dairy Farming at Willow-Marsh Farm

In this episode of Buying Local, your host Mike Nelson of Five Towers Media interviews Chuck and Sara Curtiss, owners of Willow-Marsh Farm. Tune in as they discuss raw vs pasteurized milk, what happens when you have a listeria scare, the importance of teaching agriculture in schools and much more!

0:05 Introducing Sara and Chuck
0:58 Raw Milk vs Pasteurized Milk
5:15 Feeding the Cows
6:06 How Much Milk in a Day?
7:46 Listeria Inspections
11:55 Milk Sampling
13:18 The Cow Milking Process
16:30 12 Hour Days
17:00 The Equipment
18:56 From Tank to Bottle
20:44 Scaling the Farm
23:00 Price Fixing
23:29 “Pet Food Grade”
24:50 Selling from the Farm vs the Grocery Store
28:50 Agriculture in the Classroom
32:33 Where does Milk come from?
36:01 The Listeria Scare
38:15 Cows don’t have to be Pregnant to be Milked
42:13 Timing Dairy Farming
43:44 The Farm Store
50:04 Where to Find Sara and Chuck