If you’re like my family (3 wee ones), you likely go through milk at a voracious clip. Which means you can’t keep enough in the house, have heavier, clunkier trips to the grocery and invariably hit the store at the moment they’re out of the brand you like.
We took a swing at these hassles by signing up for milk delivery from South Mountain Creamery when they first started delivering to Del Ray and we’re hooked. Pretty simple. Sign up online, they deliver yummy milk on Mondays in sturdy glass bottles and pick up your empties from the week before. In the summer you leave a cooler outside on the morning of delivery to keep your new supply chilly until you can grab it.
It’s $3.25 a half gallon, compared to $3.89 a half gallon for organic – which is what we buy from the store. We buy 4 a week, so the lower price almost covers the 3.75 delivery charge, but for me the extra dollar is a small price to pay for the convenience, the good product and the little throwback pleasure of delivery from the man in the truck painted like a cow. The farm isn’t certified organic, but they don’t do growth hormones and they don’t do antibiotics as a matter of course. The milk tastes like real milk from real live cows and I love that we’re both supporting a local farm, and not throwing away 200 plus cardboard cartons a year.
Plus we get coffee, butter yogurt, cheese, bread, and locally raised meats occasionally. They even offer prepared foods, though we haven’t ventured there yet. So far their blog is a largely missed opportunity (some interesting stuff, very sporadic…write more SMC!) but that’s a small gripe.
Combine milk delivery with our Soda water maker (I’ll write about that some day too… awesome) and we’ve pretty much eliminated lots of trips, bag lugging and disposable containers for the two beverages we drink most before 6pm.
Now if we could just figure out beer delivery or an instant wine machine.
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We FINALLY got off our collective arses and signed up tonight! We can’t wait
I’ve been looking for a farm that delivers dairy to Del Ray. This may be exactly what I’ve been looking for.