Jersey Farm Couple Sees Raw Milk as Missing Piece of Biodynamic Operation

They have 25 milk goats, 100 roasting chickens, 250 laying hens, six pigs and three shepherding donkeys on 15 acres…all part of Farmgirl Dana and her husband Ray’s progressive “commonsensical” farmstead, according to this piece in American Farm. The all-natural DanaRay Farm the article says, is complete with vegetables, fruit tress and herb gardens… all part of a “balanced system” where as much waste or oversupply is reused as possible. The couple takes excess harvest to an off-site kitchen for canning. Their trouble is trying to figure out how to grow without overburdening their two-person CSA farming operation. Being able to sell raw milk would help make the venture more profitable, at least to enable them to bring a commercial kitchen onto the farm. But raw milk isn’t legal in New Jersey.