{"id":7882,"date":"2016-02-24T14:36:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T18:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7882"},"modified":"2016-02-24T14:36:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T18:36:59","slug":"local-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7882","title":{"rendered":"Local milk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/milk.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7883\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"998\" height=\"659\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/milk.jpg\" alt=\"milk\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/milk.jpg 998w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/milk-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/milk-768x507.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While in the Winston-Salem Whole Foods on Monday, I was pleased to see milk from a local dairy in the dairy case. It&#8217;s grass-fed milk, and the dairy is Wholesome Country Creamery in Hamptonville. Hamptonville is in the Yadkin Valley not far from where I grew up.<\/p>\n<p>Not since I was in San Francisco have I been able to buy milk from a local dairy. That milk came from the Strauss Family Creamery in Marin County.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalnow.com\/home_food\/food\/local-dairy-focusing-on-grass-fed-cows\/article_ad0d34ec-1f8c-11e5-b30d-2fa70178e02a.html\">Winston-Salem Journal did a story last year<\/a> on Wholesome Country Creamery, which I did not see at the time. It&#8217;s an Amish dairy, and the creamery grows all its own feed. The dairy also uses a lower-temperature pasteurization process.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m old enough, and my rural roots are deep enough, that I remember when relatives, including my grandmothers, used to keep cows. That&#8217;s important, because I remember what milk should taste like, and I will never forget. My grandmother no longer had a cow after the early 1950s, but a few of the neighbors kept cows up until the early 1960s, and we used to buy milk from them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pricey, but I could get used to local grass-fed milk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in the Winston-Salem Whole Foods on Monday, I was pleased to see milk from a local dairy in the dairy case. It&#8217;s grass-fed milk, and the dairy is Wholesome Country Creamery in Hamptonville. Hamptonville is in the Yadkin Valley not far from where I grew up. Not since I was in San Francisco have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7882\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Local milk!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-relocalization","category-rural-issues","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7885,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions\/7885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}