Hardly A Hop, Skip & Jump Keeps Our Milk Fresh
Many people have a desire to buy local food, and milk is one of the best examples of how much distance can matter. At Mistyglen Creamery, the journey our milk takes is surprisingly short. In fact, the milk travels only about 100 feet from our barn to the on-farm processing room before it begins the bottling process.
Our cows are milked right here on the farm. From there, the fresh milk is carefully transferred to our processing area where it is pasteurized using our vat pasteurizer and then bottled for customers to enjoy. Since all this action takes place right here at the farm, the milk never has to travel far before it is either sold directly from our farm store or delivered to one of our local grocery partners, and on its way to your fridge.
This is very different from how most milk reaches the grocery store. There are a lot less kilometers on our milk before you break the seal and start enjoying it in your home. In the conventional system, milk from many farms is collected by tanker trucks and transported to large processing plants that, depending on the farm location, may be a couple hundred kilometers or more away. Once the milk arrives, it is processed in very large batches and then shipped again to distribution centres and grocery stores across the region.
By the time that milk reaches the store shelf, it may have traveled a long distance from the farm where it was first produced.
At Mistyglen Creamery, our process keeps things much closer to home. While we do not deliver milk all across Ontario, we focus on delivering farm fresh milk to our local region in London and surrounding areas. The milk comes from our own herd, is all processed on one farm, our farm, and is bottled in small batches. This shorter journey helps keep the milk incredibly fresh and allows us to maintain the gentle processing methods that our customers tell us they appreciate.
When you pick up a bottle of Mistyglen milk, you are getting milk from a farm in your region and you are supporting a local family. Our farm and family cares about the local community and we invite you with open arms to visit and take part in one of our tours or events (we’ll put a link to the event page).
You’ll see for yourself just how short a distance it is from our cows to your table: a journey of about 100 feet and a lot of care along the way!
Ever wondered how far milk travels before it reaches your fridge? At Mistyglen Creamery the journey is surprisingly short. Our milk travels about 100 feet from the barn to our on-farm processing room before being bottled. From there it is sold at the farm or delivered to local stores in the London area. It is one of the many reasons our milk tastes so fresh.