Sources of real milk and real milk products in Kentucky:

Statewide–For Small & Starting Co-ops/Private Buying Clubs:

• Clearview Valley Farm: an Amish family farm in Quarryville, PA, that can ship directly to your door. Offering grassfed food nationwide at www.clearviewvalleyfarm.com or feel free to contact the farmer directly at 717-786-0877 or email Abnerlapp@gmail.com.  All the products are free of chemicals, soy, antibiotics and hormones, They sell 100 percent raw A2 cows milk from Jersey cows, 15 different kinds of cheese, butter, yogurt, kefir, heavy cream, and sour cream. Raw goat and sheep milk. Soy-free pastured eggs, (brown and blue-green). 100 percent grassfed beef and veal. Pork, lamb, turkey, rabbit, and chicken. Sausage, steaks, bone broths, ground meats, and jerky. A private membership association. Contact them to become a member.

Regional:

• Bluegrass Region: Email: Jerseymilk96@hotmail.com. Cowshares available for individuals or groups. Jersey cows are grassfed and no hormones, steroids, or antibiotics are used. Natural animal husbandry practiced.
• North and Central KY: The Double O Farms, Gary Oaks, phone: 502-857-1306, email: doubleocowshare@gmail.com. Shares available in A2 Jersey operation. These cows graze openly on pastures and receive hay in the winter months when fresh grass is less abundant in the pastures. No hormones or steroids are administered; antibiotics may be used as a life-saving measure (and that cow’s milk taken off line until the antibiotics have cleared). Cows are allowed to rest sufficiently before calving. Replacement cows are raised from their own calves to minimize outside illnesses being introduced to their herd.

Adair County:

• Breeding: JG Farm, contact Lisa, phone: 270-378-5871 or 608-567-4277, email: poofy.cat.lover@gmail.com. Milk shares available from grassfed A2 purebred Guernsey cow. This cow has been tested and proven to have A2/A2 beta casein. She is mostly grassfed with a small amount of organic dairy feed given at milking time. Every effort made to use only organic products such as organic fly spray made of essential oils. She is hand milked into stainless steel buckets, milk is strained, chilled in the freezer, and stored in glass jars. You may sample the milk first by appointment. Local pick up from farm. May be able to meet you in town depending on the quantity and location. Shares cost $6/week and will provide one gallon of milk per week. They can be paid monthly. You can provide your own jars or purchase half gallon jars for $2.50/jar including a lid.
• Columbia: Tom and Lynelle Frazier, phone: 985-215-5206 or 985-215 2359, email: lynellefrazier@yahoo.com. Milk shares available from pastured, Jersey cows. They are fed a small amount of non-GMO oats and corn pre-soaked in apple cider vinegar 2x/day, and alfalfa at feeding. Milking is done by single-cow milker into a closed stainless steel container, and immediately strained into jars, chilled for two hours in a freezer, and refrigerated until pick-up. Milk has not been A2 tested, but cows are full Jersey. No antibiotics, hormones, etc. Local pick-up from farm. Call, text, or email for additional information. Shareholders will sign a 6 month/26 week share agreement, renewable every six months. Each shareholder will receive a share of milk each week – approximately one gallon per week, depending on production. $160 for 26 weeks, per share. Installment payments available. Payment due at first pick-up or before. Two clean gallon glass jars per share due at first week’s pick-up or before, and then a clean jar brought for rotation each week. Please label the lids of jars with your name. No rain checks, shares not picked up are forfeited. Call/text/email if share will be forfeited or picked up by someone else.

Barren County:

• Austin: Kenny’s Country Cheese, 2033 Thomerson Park Rd. Austin, KY 42123, phone: 270- 434-4124, toll-free: 1-888-571-4029, email: udderway@yahoo.com. Raw milk cheeses (gouda, white cheddar, colby, monterey jack, Jarlsberg, asiago and flavored varieties) from primarily grain-fed cows. No hormones or unnecessary antibiotics used. Available at their Austin cheese shop, by mail order, and in fine food stores in Lexington, Elizabethtown, and Louisville.
• Glasgow: Willow Hills, web: willowhills.org, phone: 270- 427-4238. Raw milk from grassfed Jersey cows via a cowshare program. No grain is fed, no pharmaceuticals used. Also offer grassfed beef and lamb, and pastured chicken, pork, and eggs.

Boone County:

• Verona: Sweet Donkey Milk of KY, 13275 Poole Rd., Nicholas Brueggemann, 859-801-9738, email: sweetdonkeymilk@gmail.com, Facebook: Sweet-Donkey-Milk-of-KY-168766833611607/. Standard and Mammoth Donkey, Hay and pasture only, raw donkey milk. Please contact if interested.

Calloway County:

• Kirksey: Wades Creek Farm, Charles Palmer, 423 Old Hickory Road Kirksey, KY 42054, phone: 270-293-6989, email: cpalmer@wk.net, Facebook: WadesCreekProduce. Registered Jersey herd, pasture fed. No hormones are ever used and antibiotics are used only when medically necessary. Shares are available for pickup every day. If interested in Jersey herdshares, please telephone before 8 pm or email or text anytime with your contact information.

Casey County:

• Windsor: Maid-N-Meadows, web: www.maidnmeadows.com Facebook: maidnmeadows. Raw milk cheeses made from their cows, which are grassfed. There are eight cheese varieties, including cheddar. They will gladly ship cheese to the lower 48 states or meet them at one of their farmers markets. More information available at their webpage.

Fayette County:

• Lexington:
  • Sara Belle’s My Cow, email: sarabellesmycow@gmail.com. Grassfed raw Jersey cow milk available via cowshares. Grassfed on native pasture plus some local alfalfa hay and dairy feed containing extra protein, vitamins, and minerals with each milking. For the cowshare to be feasible, there must be between 15-25 people buying shares. Share owners will pay the farmer 1/25th of the cow’s purchase price up front, then 1/25th of her ongoing management costs (feed, milking labor, housing, pasture/hay) monthly and receive 1/25th of her production. Members are welcome to purchase more than one share to receive more milk. Ongoing costs will be lower if people become shareowners so that the farmer can get another cow. They plan to get a Guernsey, to increase the amount of A2 milk they are consuming, and at that point would switch to a herdshare rather than a cowshare so shareholder milk supply would be uninterrupted; they must sell at least 40 shares to justify that. Their goal is to have one cow of every breed and give school and public demonstrations on real milk production. Shareholders will need to provide containers for the milk. If enough people are interested the farmer will pool resources to order containers from the same place she got hers. Monthly management fee covers labor, materials, facilities and equipment to feed, care for and shelter the cow, collect the milk, put shareholder milk in their containers, and deliver it to a central location one day each week (day/location will depend on what makes the most sense for the most shareholders).
  • SlakMarket Farm: Abraham Family, Athens Walnut Hill Pike, off Old Richmond Rd. email: Kenya@SlakMarket.com, web: www.realmilklexington.com. Grassfed Guernsey and Jersey cows, lamb, goats, and chickens. Providing raw milk and dairy products, eggs, grassfed halal beef, lamb and goat meat. SlakMarket Farm uses organic halal practice, methods, and management to humanely raise animals. With the belief that animals have rights concerning their care and welfare at every step and stage of their lives. It is the management’s intention to provide the farm herd with this quality of life, as well as provide a healthier product to the herdshare members. The animals are raised on grass pasture and given hay in the barn during winter months. If and when grass is not available they receive some supplement of certified organic, soy free, corn free, grain. Cows are given a small ration of certified organic, corn free, soy free grain at milking time along with home grown fodder and minerals. They love to welcome new members. Visit the website above to get more details on the herdshare operation. Products are for members only, and you can become a member for just $5 a year. Delivery is available to Frankfort and other nearby areas.

Franklin County:

Bagdad: Keach Manor Dairy, 4701 Lebanon Rd. Bagdad, KY 40003, phone: 502-227-1044, email: Kysaanens@gmail.com, web: www.keachmanor.us. Open by appointment only.  Free range herd of Saanen, Alpine and Recorded Grade dairy goats. Healthy herd, CAE Neg, CL Free and annual Biosecurity Panel (TB, Brucellosis & Johnes) done on all milkers.  Herd is on a standard dairy herd improvement testing program. Individual monthly testing is done on the milk for each goat on their protein, fat and somatic cell count. Goats milked 365 days a year. Goats are fed alfalfa hay and a local grain mix. Chemical dewormers rarely used. If used, strict withdrawal times are adhered to. Warm water with electrolytes is changed out at least 2x a day. Fans are used to keep them cool and fly predators are used to limit use of fly insecticides. Antibiotics are used, but only in life and death situations. So no routine antibiotics are used and strict withdrawal times are followed if antibiotics are needed. Our girls (and stinky boys) are part of our family. Raw milk dairy herdshares offered with the option of having a portion of your shares made into cheeses. Shares offered year-round. Email for more information.

Grant County:

• Williamstown: Carmen Lebo, phone: 859-391-7322, email: kymistymeadow@hotmail.com. Raw goat milk for soap making, etc. from Nubian goats. No hormones or antibiotics used. Green and brown eggs available.

Hart County:

• Bonnieville: Misty Valley Farm: Mark Easterday, 515 Bolton School Rd, Bonnieville, KY 42713, 6 miles north on 357 from Munfordville, get to Munfordville on I-65. phone 270-531-2604, or 270-709-5888, email markest_us@yahoo.com. They have Jersey cows. Herd management is as natural as possible. Herdshares are available at $5/share (refundable), with a $5 weekly maintenance fee. Please also provide one glass wide mouth gallon jar with each share. Each share entitles the owner to approximately one gallon of milk and pays for feeding and maintaining the cows and equipment. An example of costs for someone who wanted two shares: They would pay a one-time cost of $10, plus $10 weekly maintenance fee, and receive ~2 gallons of milk. The next pick up day, for as long as they own their shares, they would only pay $10 and would pick up their two gallons of milk. When they no longer want part ownership in the herd, the farm will buy back the two shares for $10.

Jackson County:

• Tyner: Sturgeon Creek Farm, Scott and Kathy Shore, 3815 Big Barn Rd. Tyner, KY 40486, phone: 606-287-3905, email: sturgeon3736@yahoo.com, Facebook: sturgeoncreekfarm. A micro dairy. They offer raw goat milk from pastured animals, yogurt, butter, hard and soft cheeses, with plans to produce soap in the future. Milk prices are $8/gallon (please bring your own containers) and cheeses are $10/pound. Farm is open seven days a week 9 am-5 pm (please call ahead). They are happy to offer tours to meet the animals. Deliveries can be made to the local area with prior arrangements. Farm is located just off Route 30 East (toward Booneville) on Big Barn Rd.

Jefferson County:

• Louisville:
  • Natural Choice Family Farm, Doug Dunlevy (owner), 6904 Hwy 160 East Henryville, IN 47126 (20 miles from Louisville; 1 mile from Interstate I-65), cell phone: 502-817-2355, email: NaturalChoiceFarm@gmail.com. Raw whole milk in sealed glass jars from four Jerseys and two Holsteins. Animals are on grass and grass/alfalfa hay. No hormones, drugs, or grain. Practice management intensive pasture rotations. Milk is $5/half-gallon, with $5 deposit on returnable jars.
  • Grass Corp, Stan and Martha Steckler family, 15606 Oriole Road Leopold, IN 47551 (Southern Indiana just off I-64; 45 miles west of Louisville, KY), phone: 812-843-3277, email: grasscorp@psci.net, web: www.grasscorp.net. Small pasture-based family farm where the pastures are managed holistically and the animals are never given antibiotics or hormones. Offering 100 percent grassfed and grass finished beef and lamb, free range eggs and pork, pasture raised chicken and turkey, and 100 percent grassfed raw dairy products. Deliveries throughout Southern Indiana. Also available every Saturday at the New Albany Farmers Market across the river from Louisville.
  • (Henry County) Pink Elephant Farm & Kitchen, Jenny & Justin, 6964 Ballardsville Rd. Smithfield, KY, email: pinkelephantfarmers@gmail.com, web: http://pinkelephantfarm.com/ Facebook: pinkelephantfarm. As part of a small and diverse farm, they are milking grassfed Jersey cows. Milk is available in glass jars through a cowshare program with on-farm pickup or delivered weekly to the Greater Louisville area. Cows are maintained in a low-stress environment, given ample rest from milking before calving, and are rotated through organically-maintained pastures. No hormones or antibiotics are used and cows are not fed any grain. The farm also sells pastured eggs, vegetables, and blueberries through a CSA model.

Jessamine County:

• Wilmore: Turnpike Fresh Delivery LLC, Terry Turner lll & Daniel Pike, phone: 859-209-0628, email: tdturn3@gmail.com. Their site to sign up at is pikevalleyfarm.com. They are a fresh milk delivery service and transport milk into town to a more convenient drop off location in Wilmore. Grassfed Jersey cows are supplemented with some hay during winter and just a little grain at milking time. Their milk is free, but they do charge an $8 per gallon delivery fee. Milk is available Tuesday-Wednesday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Kenton County:

• Villa Hills: Seven Sons Farms, Villa Hills Buying Club, 2046 Damson Dr. Villa Hills, KY 41017, phone: 877-620-1977, web: https://sevensons.net/locations/villa-hills, Facebook: sevensonsfarms. Buying club pickup for raw milk cheese, raw camel milk, and pasture-raised meats and eggs.

LaRue County:

• Buffalo: Little Brush Creek Farm, Ray Kruse, 693 Big Brush Creek Road Buffalo, KY 42716, email: rkruse@johngalt.biz. Raw goat milk available through goatshares. Pasture-raised goats and beef; no growth hormones, antibiotics only as a medical necessity and worming as needed, not as scheduled. They also have rabbit meat and rabbits for pets.

Lincoln County:

• Stanford: Normindy Farm, Norm and Cindy Aube, phone: 606-303-1150, email: Normindyfarm@aol.com. They have herdshares available from their Jersey cows. Cows are on pasture and fed a small amount of grain during milking. No growth hormones are ever used. Each herdshare is $7 which provides a gallon of fresh milk per week. Delivery is available to Lexington weekly. They also have eggs available from their free-range chickens. $3/dozen.

Logan County:

• Adairville: Moo 2 U Dairy, Mike Armstrong, 1819 Dot Rd. Adairville, KY 42202, email: Moo2U@hughes.net, phone 615-804-6164, Facebook: MilkmanMikeMoo2U. One mile from the Tennessee/Kentucky state line, approximately 50 miles north of Nashville. Moo2U delivers herdshares to the greater Nashville area and Clarksville. The majority of the herd’s diet is grass-based from pasture, dry hay and grass silage. The diet is supplemented with feed mixed locally to support the vitamin and mineral requirements of the herd. The feed program focuses on health of the cows, not higher production. Cows are milked once a day. Antibiotics are only used for health purposes and a licensed veterinarian oversees the use. No growth hormones ever used. Bulls are A2 certified. Milk can be certified for concerned herdshare members. Herdshare agreement is $50/year. Milk is $8/gallon delivered to a drop point. $7 on the farm.

Mason County:

• Mays Lick: Artisan Valley Farms, Wesley Newell, 4312 Johnson Lane Mays Lick, KY 41055 phone: 888-590-5510, web: https://sevensons.net/artisan-valley-farms. Herdshares in grassfed Jersey cows. Fed with non-GMO molasses-coated alfalfa cubes at milking time. Additional products include: grassfed beef, lamb, free-range pork, poultry and other artisan foods. Delivery area will include Lexington, KY and Cincinnati, OH. This market is supplied by a group of Amish farmers in Mays Lick, KY.

Meade County:

• Brandenburg: Cooper Family Farm, Jennie and Dave Cooper, 2610 Molly Brown Road Brandenburg, KY 40108, phone: 270-422-5026, email: jennie@cooperfamilyfarm.com, web: www.cooperfamilyfarm.com. They milk registered Jerseys on a small family farm serving Fort Knox, Radcliff, Elizabethtown, Louisville and surrounding areas. Cows are predominantly pasture-fed, receiving only a small ration of soy-free grain at milking time. No hormones are ever used and antibiotics are used only when medically necessary. They also offer shareholders seasonal access to cheese, butter, meat, poultry, eggs and produce. Shares are available for pickup every day except Sunday, during daylight hours. If interested in Jersey herdshares, please telephone before 8 pm or email anytime with your contact information and they’ll call you. They also have heifer calves available once per year for those interested in owning and milking their own family cow. See website for availability.
• Payneville: Twin Lakes Farm, Marjorie Opie, Payneville, KY 40157, email: Feel2GoodNaturally@yahoo.com, phone: 270-496-4974. Raw milk and yogurt from grassfed Alpine goats. Marjorie is a natural health practitioner who has raised Alpine goats for over 21 years. They are fed (non-certified) organic hay in the winter and graze on organic pasture in the summer while drinking natural spring water. No antibiotics or growth hormones given. Milk available for pet consumption.

Owen County:

• Owenton:
  • Hawes Dairy Farm, Bob and Teresa Hawes, 1020 Rockdale Rd. Owenton, KY 40359, phone: 502-209-0535, email (preferred): grazingfarm@gmail.com. Crossbred dairy cows, always on pasture. Grazing is managed following the principles of Andre Voisin as outlined in Grass Productivity. Cattle are grassfed and are only given a limited amount of grain in the parlor. Cows receive no r-BST, no GMO feeds, and no soy. Visitors are welcome by prior arrangement. Raw milk is available through herdshares.
  • High Spruce Farmstead, Elly Cole, 23210 Golden Circle Rd. Owenton KY 40359 (located 15 minutes from both  I-75 and I-71 in Northern Kentucky), phone: 859-559-7034, email: ellyc85@gmail.com, web: highsprucefarmstead.com. Facebook: High Spruce Farm. Cows are Jersey (A2/A2) and Brown Swiss. Cows are fed non-GMO grain, pasture during warm months and local hay in the winter. Monthly testing of milk, no antibiotics. Please contact farm for pricing information; pick up at the farm from 8 am-7 pm, No calls after 8 pm, some delivery available upon request. Visitors welcome by appointment. Located in Northern KY between I-71 and I-75; call for further directions.

Rockcastle County:

• Mount Vernon: Oakes Dairy, Dori Oakes, 234 Cardinal Hollow Road, Mount Vernon, KY, email: dorioakes@gmail.com. Lamancha Goats, pasture fed, supplemented with certified safe alfalfa product called chaffhaye. Herdshare only. Email for copy of bill of sale and herdshare agreement.

Trigg County:

• Cadiz: Jubilee Farm, Heather Lasseter, PO Box 942 Cadiz, KY 42211, phone: 270-206-5562, email: Ky.jubileefarm@gmail.com. Milking Jersey cows fed non-medicated, non-GMO feeds. Raw milk available through dairy shares. Milk available for pick up daily by appointment only.

Whitley County:

• Corbin: Val Carmichael 91 C A DR Corbin, KY  40701 email: carellama@hotmail.com. Brown Swiss cattle that are A2 tested. No unnecessary antibiotics, steroids or hormones given. Sold by herdshare. Great milk for consumption and cheese/butter making.