UNPROCESSED ( RAW ) GOAT MILK 2024

You can’t get

unprocessed goat milk any fresher!

Reservations are open for 2024 CSA shares. Whole season milk shares will run 36 weeks from March 23 to November 23; half-season shares run 18 weeks from March 23 to July 20.

Season shares take priority. This is a Community Supported Agriculture-style share, where the customer pays up-front for the whole growing season and picks up his/her products each week. To get a share, use the button below.

Milk not committed to a share is available to anyone else. If you prefer milk on an occasional or as-needed basis, text or email the afternoon before and, if available, it will be waiting for you fresh in the fridge the next morning with your name on it. If you’re a spontaneous kind of person, you can just stop in and see what’s available.

Chewing their cuds in the barn right now are 4 senior does, 2 two-year-olds, and 3 yearlings. The purebred buck we leased last fall did his job, and as of late February, all but one are looking quite round.

Milk production in goats is seasonal—more when the grass is growing quickly, less during summer drought and late fall cold, none when the ground is frozen.

Milk is sold in returnable glass Mason quart jars. Pickup is at the farm only; no shipping or delivery per IDPH rules.

Season shares take priority. This is a Community Supported Agriculture-style share, where the customer pays up-front for the whole growing season and picks up his/her products each week. To get a share, use the button below.

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Why drink raw goat milk? Lotsa reasons! The average size of the milkfat globules is smaller than that of cow milk, making goat milk naturally homogenized and easier for some people to digest. Goat milk protein is different from cow milk protein, to which many people are allergic. (However, we’ve met people who are allergic to both.)

Goat milk supplies calcium and phosphorus for bones and teeth, iodine for thyroid hormones, potassium for nerve and muscle (including heart) function, Vitamin B5 for energy release, biotin for skin and hair, Vitamin A for vision, and oligosaccharides for growth of beneficial gut bacteria. Unprocessed milk has enzymes which aid in digesting the milk.

These enzymes, along with the milk protein, are destroyed by pasteurization. Raw milk will naturally sour after about a week, when it’s perfect for recipes calling for buttermilk, or for Grandma’s banana or zucchini bread recipes.

Have you considered that dairy allegies may have more to do with what the animals eat than the milk itself? We believe God created ruminants (cows, goats, sheep, deer) to eat forage, that is, green growing plants.

Our dairy goats eat pasture and garden weeds during spring, summer, and fall, and hay in the winter. Since their natural diet in the wild is brush, which has a higher protein content than our grass pasture, we give them a small daily amount of a mix of grain, minerals, salt, and vitamins.

Why drink our goat milk? We raised our family on full-fat, raw goat milk for over 25 years. Our nine children graduated from high school lean, intelligent, and healthy (and handsome or beautiful too!). If anything is amiss with the milk, members of our household would be the first to know since we consume it daily.

Additionally, our milk is tested by a certified lab every six weeks during the milking season. Sadly for our customers, this Illinois Department of Public Health-required testing adds $1-2 to the cost of each quart. Effective July 1, 2016, any raw milk sold in Illinois must be from a IDPH-permitted farm. We are one of 11 farms in Illinois holding a current raw dairy permit.

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