Farm Day at Oakridge Dairy
Every year, Oakridge Dairy and The Modern Milkman, a Connecticut Dairy, hosts a Farm Day and Touch a Tractor event. The event will bring the general public together with local dairy farms to see how milk is processed. It also gives the farm a chance to debunk misleading interpretations about dairy farms.
The Modern Milkman works with other Connecticut farms to bring you fresh food, including bread, baked goods, and dairy. You can set up a weekly delivery for fresh farm milk from Oakridge Dairy and other dairy products and baked goods from local farmers.
Giving Back to the Community
As part of Oakridge Dairy’s Farm Day, we request that you bring a non-perishable food item. We will donate all items to local food pantries. This is just one of the ways Oakridge Dairy and The Modern Milkman give back to the community.
Another way we give back is more indirect: We keep up with all the new technology to make our farm as sustainable as possible. One of those technologies is an anaerobic digester, which helps keep the smell down and converts methane into usable fuel.
Dairy farms use a lot of electricity. Another way we give back to the community is to decrease our electricity usage. We have 752 solar panels on our dairy cow barn – they offset 25 percent of our yearly electricity consumption. We also use the most efficient fans, lights, pumps, and other equipment.
Finally, we grow all the food we feed the cows, so we know what goes into the milk you buy from Oakridge Dairy. Our cows also drink well water – not city water with all kinds of chemicals.
We believe in the old-school values and farming traditions because they work. But we also believe in helping the community and the world by being sustainable and providing our cows with room to roam and the best food and water possible. It all goes to the quality of the milk.
What You Will See at Farm Day
Our farmer friends bring their tractors for you to see and climb on. We offer tours of the milking parlor so you can see how we produce the milk we send around the country in our farm-to-market operations – and you’ll see how our milk is processed. When you set up a subscription for weekly milk delivery, your milk is barely 24 hours old – much fresher than the milk you find at the store.
At Farm Day, you’ll not only see the tractors, equipment, and the milking parlor, but you can also grab a bite from food trucks.
Contact The Modern Milkman
Keep in touch with us and all we do by visiting our Facebook page! At the same time, visit The Modern Milkman to sign up for a subscription for weekly milk, dairy, and baked goods delivery.