When I designed our small, farmstead dairy and creamery in 2005, I unknowingly left out what is perhaps the most important and useful room - the Baby Milk Kitchen. After working through a handful of chaotic kidding seasons, struggling to maneuver around whoever was milking, cluttering up the milk house with bucket feeders, etc., I realized that … Continue reading The Most Important Room in the Dairy
Creamery Design and Business
Preliminary Assessment FlowChart for Future Farmstead Creameries
Here is another flow chart I created that will walk you through the many considerations you should face before deciding to build a farmstead or artisan cheesemaking business. The red boxes signify a step at which you should stop and assess several factors for suitability, costs, and possible income. If you follow this path, you … Continue reading Preliminary Assessment FlowChart for Future Farmstead Creameries
FlowChart- Steps to Licensing a Creamery
Here is a flow chart that may be helpful in seeing the many steps of licensing and permits involved with building a cheesemaking facility. I have focused this chart on California, as it is one of the more "permit heavy" states, but most of the steps will apply in other states as well.
“What’s it Going to Cost?” A Look at the Cost of Building a Farmstead Creamery
If you are considering turning your goat hobby into a business, either a milk or cheese dairy, then you are probably trying to find the answer to one very important question, what’s it going to cost to build? You have probably already figured out that there are no easy, one-size-fits-all answers to this question, but … Continue reading “What’s it Going to Cost?” A Look at the Cost of Building a Farmstead Creamery
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