Grade A Dairy & Cheese Room
This is a true family farm in every sense, the Grandfather, the three children, myself and the three canines who make sure we are all in our places for breakfast and dinner. Night Sky Farm and the Downey family are located in Central Virginia and the area is known as the "Heart of Virginia". Campbell County is an agriculturally based county and at one time the main tobacco county of the Commonwealth. Well, the acres of tabacco plants can not be found today and in their place, dotted all over the open land are thousands of "hamburger cows" of every color and breed. The town of Brookneal still has some tobacco farmers though, but more have diversified their farms by taking up other crops. Soybeans are big and so is hay ( mostly fescue though, which I do not feed ), but we now have a farmer who raises Bison and processes them for retail and wholesale customers, a licensed winery and vineyard and a ex-tabacco farmer who has converted his farm ponds during the spring, summer and early fall months into farming freshwater shrimp. Then, you have Night Sky Farm, the only Grade A Goat Dairy of course in Brookneal and possibly the only one in the area for 50 miles. Night Sky Farm received it's license in the Spring of 2008 and began commercially milking 25 does and producing various fresh goat cheeses.
To produce large amounts of milk, not only do you need to feed the does for maximum production, you also need to have animals with the best genetics for the traits you want to exemplify and improve. Our animals have that; good dairy conformation, solid legs and feet, wide through the escutcheon, and beautiful mammary and attachment that for our need, produces large quantities of delicious milk. That is the milk that goes into our artisanal cheeses and hand-made goat milk soaps.
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Night Sky Farm Goat Cheese
