Millborne Farm is located in Shoreham, Vermont, a small town on Lake Champlain, in what we believe to be one of the most scenic areas in the Northeast: Vermont’s Champlain Valley. With breathtaking views of both the Green Mountains and New York’s Adirondacks, we deeply appreciate our surroundings. Come visit our farm and you will see what we mean!
Our farm, as are many in Vermont, is protected from development through Vermont’s Land Trust, assuring the farm will remain just that! The driving force behind our Yogurt Drink was the desire to remain a relatively small, but viable farm. We wanted to beat the trend in the dairy industry of adding more and more cows to remain profitable, which, especially out west, has led to mega-dairies, some milking in excess of 10,000 cows! Definitely not our idea of happy farming.
Someone told me once “ only dead fish go with the flow.” Well, we’re swimming upstream! A few more of our neighboring Vermont farmers have also opted for a different approach. Rather than adding cows, they are working very hard to add value to their own milk. You now can buy a great assortment of the finest dairy products straight from several Vermont farms.
The soil type here is very heavy clay (the kind that makes you and your shoe size grow at an incredible rate when you walk on it when it’s wet!) It is very fertile soil, but sometimes can be hard to work under adverse circumstances, like extended periods of rain. The land provides us with enough feeds— grass, alfalfa and corn silage—for our herd. Cows have an amazing digestive system, 4 stomachs, that can digest all kinds of feedstuffs humans could not begin to utilize. They convert these products into a very nutritious wholesome food humans can digest. Co-habitation at it’s best.