What Is Heat-Treated Milk? (And Why Our Farm Is More Like a Backyard BBQ Than a Restaurant) Why Milk Labels Are So Confusing Milk labels are confusing. Words like raw, pasteurized, heat-treated, Grade A all sound similar, but they don’t mean the same thing. So I want to explain, clearly and honestly, what heat-treated milk is, why our labels look the way they do, and why we’ve chosen the system we operate under here in Kodiak. How We Started: Life as a Grade A Dairy I started as a Grade A...

If you’ve ever found yourself knee-deep in goat chores with a bucket of leftover whey and wondered, "What now?" — you’re not alone....

The Small Micro Dairy Life Ten years ago, if you had told me I’d be running a raw milk dairy on a small island in Alaska, I probably...