Cortez Creamery

Things are looking tough this spring, and I want to be honest with all of you about where we are. The world feels chaotic right now. Fuel is high. Everything costs more. Even with the rain we got recently, we are still in a severe drought. This year, we are scheduled to get less than half of our normal irrigation water, and our hay supplier has already warned us hay prices may nearly double. That is a hard number to sit with when you are responsible for keeping animals fed, m

Our new cows have arrived. 🐄✨And I’m not being dramatic when I tell you this feels like Christmas morning, a deep exhale, and a small miracle all rolled into one. Good cows, the kind that produce a lot of quality milk without eating you out of house and home, are hard to come by. Add A2/A2 genetics to the list, and now you’re hunting something truly rare. Not just a cow. A cow with the kind of efficiency, udder structure, temperament, and milk that can actually carry a small

I woke up this morning, looked out the window, and the whole pasture was covered in a thin white blanket. Not deep winter snow just enough to quiet everything down and make the world look clean for a minute. I stood there with my coffee warming my hands, letting myself breathe a little before the day started tugging at me from every direction. The first snow always gives me a moment of honesty, a moment to pause and ask myself if I’m still in the life I’m building… and if the

I can hardly believe it is September already. It feels like just yesterday we were waiting on the spring grass to come up, and Jeremy had...