(Hamilton, NY- Oct. 2013) Kriemhild Dairy Farms is hosting a pasture walk and local food dinner at their soon-to-be creamery in Hamilton on Sunday, Oct. 6\u00a0from\u00a02 to 5 p.m. The Pasture Enhanced, Sun Infused Tour will start at EFS Farm on Route 12B (just past Colgate University). Guiding guests will be Lindsey Jakubowski, General Manager of Kriemhild Dairy Farms, and Bruce and Nancy Rivington, owners of EFS Farm and founders of Kriemhild Dairy Farms.<\/p>\n
The pasture walk will end with a viewing of the afternoon milking in the New Zealand style milking parlor. The event then moves less than a mile up the road to Kriemhild Creamery for a light and local dinner prepared by Lofo of Syracuse with music by Williams Road band.<\/p>\n
The Rivington\u2019s are grazing 600 head on 730 acres of pasture and woodland in the town of Lebanon. They\u2019ve travelled the world to places like Ireland, New Zealand and Australia studying pasture based dairy systems.<\/p>\n
In 2000, the Canadian couple moved their farm from Ontario, Canada to Madison County and slowly began converting the existing corn fields to a complex system of grass and legume species. Being a seasonal dairy has allowed the Rivington\u2019s to build an \u2018open air\u2019 New Zealand style milking parlor, a style of parlor unique to this area.<\/p>\n
Kriemhild Dairy Farms began producing and selling Meadow Butter in 2010, with a motivation to pay grazing dairy farmers a premium for their grass fed milk. The company found its niche in the spring of 2012 and has been growing rapidly through a variety of markets found locally and throughout the northeast. Meadow Butter is a seasonally made, sweet cream butter that is churned to an 85 percent butterfat. Using the milk from Rivington\u2019s grass based dairy, Meadow Butter is currently being made at Queensboro Farm Products in Canastota.<\/p>\n
Kriemhild Dairy Farms is planning to expand their product offering and recently purchased a building to house their soon-to-be creamery. Locating the creamery adjacent to the farm will allow the creamery to irrigate waste water and reduce milk hauling fees as well as truck emissions from hauling milk.<\/p>\n
KDF will also be investing in solar thermal energy through Madison County\u2019s Solarize Madison program. It is the company\u2019s mission to produce quality, healthy foods in a manner that is cohesive with and unburdensome on the environment.<\/p>\n