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The Holt Farm — Amazing Raw Milk Variety!

 

Article by Shawn Dady, September 20, 2012

The absolutely beautiful Holt Farm is located in Hickman County, just across the Lewis County line.  It is a gorgeous 47 1/2 acre farm with rolling hills and ponds.  They also have a fantastic milking barn with facilities that are crisp and clean.

They milk 5 Jersey cows and have tons of cow shares available.

Daisy (in the pictures) is one of their Jersey cows and she gives a lot of milk. The cows are grass fed in both summer AND winter. They get quite a few high-quality grass products in addition to regular pasture, including timothy hay, alfalfa, and beet pulp. They also gets the hay cut off their own fields in spring and fall.

Daisy is very happy and very spoiled. She is milked twice a day and gets lots of love and care. The boys love her!

The Holt Farm is offering herd shares for their cow share program at $70 to get into the program. This is your portion of the animal, the part you own. The $70 share fee is non-refundable and is a one-time price, not yearly. The delivery price on the milk is $8 per gallon labor for milking. Your share of ownership in the herd is forfeit when you leave the share program.

 

 

 

 

The milking barn….

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are the boys petting and loving on Daisy while she’s in the barn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daisy getting hooked up to be milked….

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Milking Machine…

 

 

 

 

 

 

They will offer delivery into Spring Hill, Franklin , and Nashville as demand grows. They also offer other products made with your own milk for a set labor price as follows:
1 lb of Butter is $8.00 for labor
1 lb of Honey-Butter is $11.00 for labor
1 qt of Kefir is $6.00 for labor
1 qt of Cottage Cheese is $5.00 for labor
1 qt of Sour Cream is $5.00 for labor
1 qt of Cream is $5.00 for labor
1 qt of Buttermilk is $5.00 for labor
1 qt of Whey is $5.00 for labor

1 qt of Yogurt is $5.00 for labor

  • Blueberry
  • Cherry
  • Strawberry
  • Strawberry Banana
  • Coconut
  • Vanilla
  • Peach
  • Plain

They also offer pastured free-range eggs from their Rhode Island Red hens. They also plan to offer grassfed beef as their herd grows. They are now offering raw goat milk from a herd of Nubians and Alpines. Nubians are a wonderful breed that give 4.6% butterfat in their milk. They are great milking goats. If that’s what you’re looking for you’ve found it at the Holt Farm. It will be $9 for the labor per gallon.

These lovely little heifers in the picture will be growing the herd in year and a half or so and will be giving lots more milk for the Holts.

 

Give Sherry Holt a call today at  (931) 729-4530, or email her at holtfarmingco@gmail.com

About 

A health consultant, speaker, and copywriter, Shawn Day is also the president of Tennesseans For Raw Milk and the Nashville/Brentwood/Franklin Chapter Leader for the Weston A. Price Foundation. She is a consultant and nationwide influencer for people on health and wellness issues and has been in the industry for more than 20 years.