The Journey of the Milk, Part I

Readers of the blog may have noticed that posts have been much less frequent as of late.  That is because Dan and I have been working part time at Consider Bardwell Farm for the past few weeks and there are few spare minutes.   I thought this might be a good time for a pictorial essay on the progression of our milk from cow to cheese!

Here are the ladies in the parlor at milking time.

They love to have their photos taken.

The milk enters the bulk tank via the pipeline that runs
from the milking parlor to the milk house.  There it is cooled until the day of the scheduled
milk haul, usually every other day, when Dan draws the milk off into new stainless
steel milk cans and takes it half mile up the road to Consider Bardwell Farm.

Dan loads the cans onto the Consider Bardwell Farm truck.

The wayward goose, as always, supervises.

Arriving at Consider Bardwell, just up the road.

Reed helps move the full cans of milk from the truck to the milk cooler.

After the milk arrives at Consider Bardwell, it stays in the milk cooler until
it is time to be made into cheese, usually the next day.  My next post
will show 
the transformation of Wayward Goose Farm milk into
miraculous Consider Bardwell Cheese!