About Ithaca Milk®
living environment
Ithaca Milk® was started with the idea in mind that small-scale, sustainable farming is possible in a modern farming landscape. The animals and the land that produce our food should be treated with respect, and managed with the living environment in mind.
Since inception we have focused on supporting a few small, single breed farms with extremely high quality milk. Milk is made by cows as a highly variable and complicated natural ingredient, and we know that the best way to make great yogurt is to use great milk. Rather than adding artificial ingredients, thickeners and stabilizers, or devising complicated processing methods to correct for low quality milk, we focus on getting the best milk possible from the healthiest, happiest cows possible.
Natural Milk
We want to produce food that is nutritious and supportive of the farms we work with (including ours), leaving the opportunity for us and children to farm in the future.
Although the farms we work with do not have organic certifications, they follow original standard farming practices, which is the way their families have been farming for hundreds of years. This means without the use of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, growth hormones, or GMOs. The effectiveness of these farming methods is clear in the quality of our unadulterated milk. You haven’t tasted natural milk until you’ve tasted Ithaca Milk®.
At Ithaca Milk®
we believe
traceable to its origin.
deserve respect.
stewards of the land.
At Ithaca Milk®
we believe
The Quest for the perfect cup of yogurt
Most milk available to bulk purchasers (like a company keen on making yogurt) comes from many different farms, each with several of different breeds of cows, mixed together on the transport truck long before it reaches the processing facility. In our quest to make the perfect cup of yogurt, we needed to find a milk that was naturally higher quality than the comingled milk coming from modern suppliers, with most of the breeds focused on quantity over quality.
With the distinct flavor and natural characteristics of Jersey milk, we’ve found a truely unique milk for our yogurt. In order to get the milk we want, we pick it up from the farms in the morning with our own milk hauler and deliver it fresh to the creamery, to be processed that same day.
By keeping things small scale, we can say our 100% Jersey yogurt is the best yogurt you can make with cows milk…