South Mountain Creamery

One of our co-op groups organized a tour of South Mountain Creamery.  I love this place!  Not only is the ice cream delicioso, but the kids get to feed the calves each time you go.  This time as part of the tour we got to see how the dairy actually works.  It was really neat to see the cows some into the milking barn and how all the machinery in there worked.  Then they showed us the tanks that hold and pasteurize the milk.   We got to see the yard and the feeding barn.  These cows even have special cow beds they can lay on when they want to.  They also had baby chicks and ducks that the kids got to hold.

They open the calf barn up for people to feed the cows every day at 9(?) and 4:30.  So if we ever go back there, we'll make sure it's around one of those times.