The Abbey Farm

Raw Milk from 100% Jersey Cows, Raw Ice Cream, Raw Brine Aged Feta and much more. Pastured Eggs Red Wattle Pork, by the cut St. Croix Grass Fed Lamb, by the cut www.abbeyfarm.com Today I want to talk to you about The Abbey Farm's Fair Share program, a dairy cow herd share program with a little bit of a twist. You may be familiar with the idea of a herd share, wherein a farm allows you, the potential raw dairy consumer to buy a temporary share in their herd of cows, typically on a monthly or seasonal basis. This membership entitles you a predetermined amount of the raw milk produced by those cows each week. All in all, it's not unlike many of the already popular CSA-type programs for food crops like vegetables, fruits and meats. And like those herd share programs, The Abbey Farm's Fair Share program allows you to buy a temporary, renewable share in our farm's herd of 100% Jersey milk cows. This membership doesn't just entitle you will have access to raw milk however. In addition, we offer a range of dairy products including cheese, cultured butter, Greek yogurt and more, all produced and cultured by hand at our Farmstead Creamery in Molalla, OR. Also unlike most herd shares, The Abbey Farm doesn't charge you a large up-front fee every time you want to renew your membership. Another thing that separates The Abbey Farm from the rest of the herd share pack is that we don't lock our members into a set amount of dairy products for a month or, in some cases, even longer. Instead, we offer you the chance to renew your shares weekly on our easy to use online catalog, making it easy to change or cancel your order on the fly. Whether you need an extra quart of cream to recreate Grandma's famous pasta sauce or you're headed out of town and won't be able to get through that whole gallon before the weekend, we offer the flexibility to get the raw dairy you need when you need it. This makes our herd share program truly unique. And hey, if flexibility isn't your thing and you just want to set an order and forget it, we offer our Subscription Orders. This feature in our catalog allows you to set your order once and then forget it as you receive a weekly charge, email notification and delivery to one of our pick-up locations in SW Portland, Sellwood-Moreland, SE Portland or Molalla. In addition to our dairy selection, we also offer pastured eggs, USDA certified pastured pork and grass-fed lamb. Our hogs and lambs are raised on open farmland, with year-round access to fresh air, spring-fed water and natural forage material. Our hogs' diet is supplemented with cultured whey, a by-product of our cheese-making operation, an assortment of fruit and vegetable scraps from local grocery store partners and a selection of grain and fruit mashes taken from local juice and fruit & vegetable producers in the Portland area. All lambs are 100% grass-fed. You can purchase our pork and lamb by the cut on our website.