For those selling/sharing surplus milk

[jode]

How do you package it?

We are a few months away from milk, but once it comes, we are fairly sure we'll have too much. Should we be saving the jugs from the milk we currently buy, or will those be too hard to clean? Will we need to invest in some glass bottles or something? Do we need to plan on a new frig to store milk in?

[JHinCA]

We use 2 qt canning jars. Plastic jugs are much too hard to clean.

[darbyfamily]

we keep ours in the fridge in quart size jars, much easier for the children to pour their own milk that way

[darbyfamily]

Also, consider freezing or canning some of it for those months when the cow is dried up

heres a great article on canning fresh milk...

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It...nned-Milk.aspx

[MullersLaneFarm]

We use gallon glass jars. Usually the originally contained pickles or olives.

Check local resturants/bars/high school stadiums for empty jars.

Do not reuse plastic. It is porus and hard to clean

[matt_man]

We get 1/2 gallon wide mouth canning jars. Our customers have to provide them themselves, or I will sell them jars @ $2.50 a piece. They cost $12 for 6 jars at Ace Hardware.

[francismilker]

I will provide a jar to a first time customer for $2. After that, if they want milk, they have to bring me a clean jar. My wife will then re-clean it in a hot dishwasher cycle. I have started getting one gallon jars from a school cafeteria. They were originally filled with pickles and it's a challenge to rid them with the pickle smell. We've started soaking them in a strong solution of bleach water for 24 hours and that has done the trick. The lids from them have to be soaked as well as they have a in liner of plastic that holds on to the pickle odor.

[jode]

Awesome - thanks all