How To Milk Just About Anything.

Yayyy SuperForest!

SuperForester Serra and I were having a conversation the other day and the subject of milking came up. Which was interesting because it was the second time that week for me that milking various animals had entered into the conversational stream.

In Qatar, a doctor/scientist told me that the most digestible animal milk (besides mummy's) came from the horse of all creatures.

Then Serra informed me of the wealth of critter-milking videos on youtube...

Oh ho ho! Fun, thought I.

Here we go:

Milking a cow:


Milking a horse:


Milking a sheep:


Milking a camel:


Milking a goat:


Milking an elephant:


Milking a water buffalo:


At first I was giggling like a schoolgirl as one by one I found these videos. Now I'm just sort of thirsty.

Which mammal's milk is it strangest to drink after seeing these? I'd go with all of them.
I still love me a tall frosty glass of milk. Siempre, baby.

I hope this was both amusing and informative.

Love,

Jackson

p.s. Massive thanks to SuperForester Serra and Dr. Sven Hammer for the inspiration, and to youtube for aggregating and cataloging everything we can think of filming.

Google Earth-ing Your Dairy!

Afternoon all!

We just had a sublime flash of insight.

It all started with an innocent glass of milk.

Here at SFNYC, we drink a lot of milk. Not only in coffee and oatmeal, but big, tall frosty glasses of the stuff. Scrum-tums.

Milk in moderation can be both good for you and highly delicious. It all depends what kind of milk you are drinking. We think we can all agree that milk from organic, pasture-fed, free-roaming, drug-free cows tastes good and is better for you than other milks.

With that in mind, we started checking up on the places our milk comes from, with the help of our friend Google Earth.

Case in point: Organic Valley's Regional Milk line.


Mmmmm! Regional milk? We're down with eating and drinking things produced near me. A click or two later brings us to a link to their Northeast regional providers, more specifically, to the farm of Paul and Maureen Knapp.



There they are. A happy looking couple. There's a post from a Ms. Carrie Branovan who cheerfully reports on a day she spent with the elder Knapps, their children, and the chickens and cows on the farm. It sounds truly idyllic.

A bit more snooping around the ol' Truth Box and we learned a great deal. Seems like Paul and Maureen are decent, hard-working folk, living the American dream. A bit more typing and we got the address of the farm, which we'll happily share with you:

2023 Preble Road
Preble, NY
13141

Typed it into Google Earth, and...


Green grass? Check.
Swimming hole? Check. (it's the dark green blob on the right of the image)
Don't see many cows, but it could have been a hot day and they were having a siesta in the barn.

All in all, from space, it looks like a nice little farm. A great place to organically raise happy cows who will go on to produce delicious milk for customers in the Northeast.

So Google your dairy! Look from above at where your milk comes from. Heck, do this for all your food. It is an amazing option. Utilize it.

Here's where you go to download Google Earth.
Here's the site for Organic Valley Farm Coop.
And here's a great list from New York Magazine about the six best milks in New York City!

Love to all,

Team SF