ALABAMA: Canebrake Farm - Wright Dairy

While in Alabama we took a road trip to Alexandria (near Anniston) to visit Wright Dairy located on Canebrake Farm. This is the only dairy in Alabama who milks the cows, bottles the milk and sells it to you right on the farm. Wright Dairy sells freshly made cheeses, butter, milk and yard eggs out of the store located on the farm. Their products are also sold to consumers at grocery stores in the nearby area.  Their milk is pasteurized but not homogenized so the cream still rises to the top.  Nothing is added and nothing is removed. Wright Dairy and their Amish partners, use no herbicides or pesticides on their pastures, nor do they use hormone injections on their cattle or chickens.  They have a see-thru window in the store that allows you to watch as they bottle their milk, but of course, you have to get there early to see this taking place and we did not get there until early afternoon.  We bought a gallon of whole milk, 1 pound of cheddar cheese, dozen yard eggs and 2 cups of ice cream: 1 vanilla and 1 chocolate from the farm store.  The milk, eggs and cheese were devoured at breakfast the next day, the ice cream we ate at the farm.  Non-homogenized milk is thick and creamy but tastes as good if not better than homogenized milk. Yard eggs are very flavorful, fluffy and delicious. The cheese was very good and is the sharpest cheddar I have had in a long time .  Being on the farm and at the dairy took me back to the 1950's where I grew up "way out in the country" and we would go to a neighboring farm to buy our milk, eggs, and butter.  Straight from the farm to the table!

Hey Grandpa what's for breakfast: country ham, bacon, scrambled eggs, homemade gravy, homemade biscuits, home fried potatoes, and good ole' dairy milk