My Daily Bread is back

My Daily Bread is back from a well needed vacation! Look for all their organic bakery items, jams, jellies and prepared foods back on the market website this weekend!

Group Buy: Pastured Butter

I am happy to welcome Ginny and Jimmy Franks of Southern Swiss Dairy to our family of local farmers! We will be getting our pastured butter from them going forward. I’ve had their butter and it is delicious! Can’t wait until we can get spring and summer butter – it’s a beautiful shade of dark yellow due to the abundance of green grass on the pasture.

Southern Swiss Dairy is a family operated and owned dairy located in Waynesboro, GA. They raise Brown Swiss cows on pasture. Their milk is low vat pasteurized and not homogenized. They use 40% butterfat cream to make their butters. We plan to have a group buy for their butter every 2 months to start off and potentially more frequently. Also we hope to add pints, quarts and gallons of cream once we see how everything goes.

So you may recall that we used to get our butter from another creamery. I decided to switch creameries because the farm we used to work with decided to outsource their butter. I could not verify that the dairies they get cream are from pasture raised cows, conventionally raised or even what they are fed. I will never have a product on the market that I would not 100% feel comfortable giving to my own family and this prompted the switch. I am very confident that you will not be disappointed. The price is even almost the same.

The largest size Southern Swiss sells their butter is 1lb (hand packed in wax paper). Unsalted and Salted (sea salt) will be listed. Since they are a smaller dairy we are limited on how many pounds are available. Don’t forget to order early!!

HELP! We need Volunteers!!

THANK YOU *Pam, Lanay, Marie, Diana, Tanya, and Chuck for helping on Tuesday! You guys are a blessing! We couldn’t have a co-op without volunteers and we appreciate you all so much!

If you are interested in volunteering, I have created a volunteer sign up on Signup Genius. I am asking for volunteers to sign up for 1 hour shifts from 2p to 6:45 pm. No packing is involved just need someone to be there to assist other members. You are welcome to bring your kids as long as they are supervised. Here is the link to the sign up http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A44AEA623A7FA7-volunteer

The link is also posted on the About page on our website.

Thank you in advance for your support!