Crosswinds Farm & Creamery is home to Brown Swiss cows raised for dairy & beef, an Angus/Murray Gray beef herd, crossbred pigs, and a flock of several breeds of egg laying chickens. The comfort and health of our animals is our top priority; they are our four-legged (and two-legged) family. We handcraft the milk that our cows produce into delicious cheeses, gelato, and yogurt as well as bottling it! Our pigs feast on the whey that is a by-product of cheesemaking, producing tasty pork.
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We use antibiotics only when absolutely necessary, which is rarely. We have a lot invested (emotionally & financially) in our cows, and we want to give them the best medical care available, if they need it. Balanced diets, vaccines, fresh air & water are our preventive health strategies. If a cow is treated with antibiotics, her milk is of course discarded until the antibiotics have cleared her system. Every tank of milk is tested for antibiotics before processing. We do not use rBST, although there really is no difference between the milk from cows that are supplemented and those that aren't. (That will be a topic for another day).
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Nearly all of the materials used to build our farm have been recycled in one way or another. In 2011, we "deconstructed" the barns at another farm & hauled all of the materials home. We are planning to resurrect the main barn to give us more space to house our animals, and have used many of the other parts & pieces in our projects, including building a roof to mount our solar thermal hot water system on. We love using the sun to heat the 200+ gallons of hot water we need daily for the dairy!
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