selling raw milk

That is amazing! I guess everything is illegal now in the land of freedom.

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I was thinking of letting someone/two come to our homestead a couple times a week and let them milk my cow at a particular time/day and they are responsible then for their own cleanliness of the cow's udder and pail, etc. Not sure how Elsie would like it, if she would cooperate. I would still be there/around, give me a time to straighten things up, sweep the floor, etc. I still plan on keeping a calf on her up to a point and only milking once a day through that period. I just don't want to have to deal with or be responsible for anyone else's milk or the law, but I think I could find some takers on my idea enough to pay for her keep. Of course, they still have to buy a share or something and then there's the liability factor. It would have to be their "share" that kicked them, lol! How would this idea go over legally? Then, again if in Ohio I'm not even *allowed* to drink my own fresh raw cow's milk, I guess that would be illegal too!

Thanks so much for posting that! Now I know that my state (VT) has very liberal laws about this---I can go buy some raw milk fromt the wonderful, clean organic dairy that I know of...and when my goats are producing, I can sell to a small amount of people, if I have enough after cheese making.

BTW, I recently read Weston Price's works on raw milk and native foods...I have a friend who brings her gd to the same dance class as my dd. When her daughter came to pick up my friend's gd, I noticed she had the straightest, nicest teeth and beautiful wide smile. In the waiting room discussions of some of our children's orthodontic needs and costs, my friend stated that thankfully none of her children had needed braces or even had any cavities. Right after this I read Weston Price's material. I meant to ask her if she raised them on raw milk because they lived in farm country.

Today, at dance class, we were discussing raw milk, and she said, she raised all her kids on raw milk! Amazing!

Thanks so much for posting that! Now I know that my state (VT) has very liberal laws about this---I can go buy some raw milk fromt the wonderful, clean organic dairy that I know of...and when my goats are producing, I can sell to a small amount of people, if I have enough after cheese making.

BTW, I recently read Weston Price's works on raw milk and native foods...I have a friend who brings her gd to the same dance class as my dd. When her daughter came to pick up my friend's gd, I noticed she had the straightest, nicest teeth and beautiful wide smile. In the waiting room discussions of some of our children's orthodontic needs and costs, my friend stated that thankfully none of her children had needed braces or even had any cavities. Right after this I read Weston Price's material. I meant to ask her if she raised them on raw milk because they lived in farm country.

Today, at dance class, we were discussing raw milk, and she said, she raised all her kids on raw milk! Amazing!

I highly recommend Ron Schmid's book "The Untold Story of Raw Milk" and it is a very balanced presentation of the history of milk...it also talks about how milk got a bad rep---it was the filthy distellary dairies and unsanitary handling that made milk so full of bad pathogens and so forth.

Pasteurizing milk kills the enzymes and changes the fats and proteins in a very deleterious way...

Where does one take their milk to have it tested? I am getting ready to get some dairy goats and don't plan to sell the milk, but I would like to have it tested.

Thanks,

Beth