Since 2013, we have made 11 loans to eight small food enterprises. Our investment club has 21 members, who have put in a total of $107,100 in capital. ![]() In its heyday the Buttercup Dairy Company had more than 200 shops in Scotland. She also sells cow shares-shareholders pay a boarding fee for their cows and are then entitled to milk.įrom Local Matters’ perspective, Bonnie and Buttercup Farms are just the type of person and business we desire to support. The distinctive shop-entrance tilework of a branch of the Buttercup Dairy Company (late C19th/early C20th). Bonnie still works for a local veterinarian several days a week, but looks forward to when she can spend all day at home with her girls, making cottage cheese, separating cream, and churning butter. The “girls” currently produce about 28 gallons of milk a day. She sells raw milk and cream, cottage cheese and yogurt, and all the butter she can make. She has some customers from more than 100 miles away and more inquiring every week. She started with Buttercup, her first cow (and, she reports, still one of her favorites), and now has seven. “After years of working in various areas of agriculture-raising beef cows, breeding quarter horses, working on ranches and for veterinarians-and seeing the interest in local, raw, and organic foods, I decided to start a small raw-milk dairy.” Even as a young girl, I told myself that if I ever got the chance to have milk cows and do what Stella did, I would. I loved going there: I loved the cows, the atmosphere, and the smell of the milk. They have adorable names: Daisy, Peanut Butter, Cocoa Butter, Fuzzy, Ginger Snap, Fern, Flower, Ethel, Blossom and Moses the bull. The cows are a variety of Jerseys, a red and white Holstein, a Swiss Brown and a few are Guernseys. Stella, the owner, would chill her milk in that spring water, and the locals would come pick it up with their jars. Buttercup Farm sell raw cow's milk and other produce like veggies, eggs, raw honey, goat milk soap and firewood. A spring ran through the barn in a concrete trough. I vividly remember everything about this dairy farm and the milk room. Bonnie planned to breed her cows with Miniature Jerseys in order to increase the profitability of her business.Īs Bonnie put it: “I am living out my dream! As a young girl, I would go to a farm in Coaldale, Colorado, to get raw milk. Contact them using their information above to learn more. Then in May 2016, Local Matters made another loan to Buttercup Farms in the amount of $10,000, enabling the purchase of three more cows and Bonnie’s enrollment in artificial insemination school. (401) 626-1085 20 Nygren Road Lisbon, CT US 06351 Update Listing Leave a tip Raw milk farm This listing was submitted as an existing raw milk farm producing and distributing raw milk. In November 2014, Local Matters loaned Buttercup Farms $6,000 for the purchase of two cows. Tamara had previously made a personal loan to Buttercup Farms. ![]() This article appears in the Winter 2016/17 issue of the Slow Money Journal.īonnie Yarbrough, owner of Buttercup Farms, was referred to Local Matters Investments, our Denver-based Slow Money investment club, by Tamara Campfield, one of our founding members and treasurer.
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