Concept
Dairy
Also known as: dairy farm, milk operation, milking parlor
A farm whose primary production is milk — from cows, goats, sheep, water buffalo. The most labor-intensive farm category: milking happens twice a day, every day, with no off-season. A small dairy is a 365-day commitment that does not pause for holidays, illness, or weather. Most directory dairies are pasture-based grass-fed operations, often coupled with an on-farm creamery turning milk into cheese, yogurt, butter, or ice cream.
A dairy is a farm that milks animals. [[directory|The directory]] uses the unmodified word dairy because it is the universal English term — a 1850s dairy is a dairy is a dairy.
What the directory tracks here
Cow dairies (Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey, Brown Swiss, Ayrshire, [[heritage-breeds|heritage breeds]]), goat dairies (Nubian, Saanen, LaMancha, Alpine, Nigerian Dwarf), sheep dairies (East Friesian, Lacaune, Awassi), water-buffalo dairies (rare but present, primarily mozzarella operations), camel dairies (very rare; included when found).
Many directory dairies operate an on-farm creamery making cheese, yogurt, butter, or ice cream. Where the creamery’s [[eating-the-landscape|identity]] dominates, the entry may also carry the creamery relation as a value-add.
See also
Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.
- Instance of: [[farm]]
- Shares approach with: [[livestock-farm]]
- Contrasts with: [[industrial-agriculture]]
- Instances: [[airmont-farm]] · [[all-natchur-l]] · [[annie-gs-dairy]] · [[buffalo-creek-farm-and-creamery-llc]] · [[chase-hill-farm]] · [[conebella-farm]] · [[cook-farm]] · [[daddy-petes-plant-pleaser]] · [[ell-bar-farm]] · [[farmacy]] · [[fitchs-corner-farmstand]] · [[geremiah-farms]] · [[gothburg-farms]] · [[greener-acres-farm]] · [[heards-cedar-hill-farm-market]] · [[king-brothers-dairy]] · [[milk-house-farm-market]] · [[misty-brook-farm-shop]] · [[nezinscot-farm-store]] · [[rocky-road]] · [[samish-bay-cheese]] · [[shaggy-coos-farm-creamery]] · [[sterling-dairy]] · [[sunny-cove-farm]] · [[the-milkhouse]] · [[turnip-rock-farm]] · [[turnip-rock-farm-cosmic-wheel-creamery]] · [[two-stones-farm]]
What links here, and how
Inbound connections from across the wiki, grouped by lens and by relationship. These appear automatically — every entity page declares what it links to, and that data populates here on the targets.
Practical
instance of
- Airmont Farm OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- All-Natchur-L OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Annie G's Dairy OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Chase Hill Farm primary surface is the dairy herd milked daily and processed into cheese in the on-farm creamery
- Conebella Farm OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Cook Farm OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Daddy Pete's Plant Pleaser OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Ell-Bar Farm OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Farmacy OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Fitch's Corner Farmstand OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Geremiah Farms OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Gothburg Farms OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Greener Acres Farm OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Heard's Cedar Hill Farm Market OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- King Brothers Dairy OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Milk House Farm Market OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Misty Brook Farm Shop OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Nezinscot Farm Store the farm self-identifies as 'a fully functional organic dairy farm' — milk is the base of the cheese, cafe, and value-add layers that stack on top
- Rocky road OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Samish Bay Cheese primary product is milk processed in the on-farm creamery into cheese
- Shaggy Coos Farm & Creamery OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Sterling Dairy OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Sunny Cove Farm OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- The Milkhouse OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Turnip Rock Farm & Cosmic Wheel Creamery OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Turnip Rock Farm & Cosmic Wheel Creamery OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
- Two Stones Farm OSM shop=farm reclassified to dairy by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
also grows
- Cervenka Farm Store secondary product detected from name or OSM tag
- Chesh secondary product detected from name or OSM tag
- Cozy Nook Farm core operation is the dairy herd supplying Prairie Farms
- Farmers’ Market Cooperative of East Liberty secondary product detected from name or OSM tag
- Gade Farm secondary product detected from name or OSM tag
- Greenwood Gardens secondary product detected from name or OSM tag
- Kreider Farms secondary product detected from name or OSM tag
- Lum Farm milk products under the same operation alongside the meat lines
- Maple Wind Farm secondary product detected from name or OSM tag
- Roadside Market secondary product detected from name or OSM tag
- Sensenig Produce & Greenhouses secondary product detected from name or OSM tag
- The Classy Cow Farmstand Jersey creamline milk is the flagship product
- Valley Dream Farm secondary product detected from name or OSM tag
- Windy Brow Farms secondary product detected from name or OSM tag
- York Corner Gardens secondary product detected from name or OSM tag
contains
- Farm milk-producing operation, cow / goat / sheep / buffalo
contrasts with
- Livestock Farm both raise ruminants; livestock operations are organized around slaughter and meat output, dairies around daily milking
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