Out of the Ashes, Good Will Rise.

We’ve always believed that beauty can come from the ashes. That somehow, in the middle of the heartbreak, the loss, and the hard-to-understand seasons, something good can still grow.

For us, that’s been our story.

There was a time when farming was everything to us—it was home, it was legacy, it was family. Jesse grew up on a small dairy farm, the kind where every cow had a name and a story. His parents started that farm from the ground up, milking close to a hundred cows and raising their children right beside them. It was a first-generation farm, and every inch of it carried years of sweat, care, and love.

For so many years in America, small family dairy farms thrived. Farmers like my great-grandfathers could still make a living while being coaches, township supervisors, volunteer firefighters and neighbors. There was a time when you could milk 50 cows, work hard, and still come home for supper.

But as the years went on, the scales of agriculture began to tip. Milk prices fell. Production expectations rose. And the dream that once sustained families like Jesse’s started slipping away. The long hours grew longer. The income grew thinner. Many farmers—good, hardworking families—began losing everything they’d built.

Jesse’s family was one of them.

Selling the farm was one of the hardest things we’ve ever walked through. It felt like the end of a chapter we never wanted to close. On the day the cows were sold, we took home two heifer calves—just two small reminders of all that once was, and maybe, all that could be again.

And from that heartbreak, something new began to grow.

We didn’t have hundreds of acres or a million-dollar setup. But what we did have was a deep love for farming, a willingness to work hard, and a small 20-acre piece of land we could call ours. That’s where the idea for our Microdairy model was born.

We wanted to prove that dairy farming could still be sustainable—that families could still milk cows, make a good living, and have time to breathe again. So we built something different. We chose to sell directly to our community, creating a small but thriving dairy where people could know exactly who their farmer was and where their milk came from.

Today, we milk just twelve cows. Every drop of milk is sold right here in our local community. We’ve found a rhythm that allows us to farm with purpose again—to raise our family, to build relationships with our customers, and to keep alive what so many have been forced to give up.

Our hope now is to help other farmers find their way, too. To share what we’ve learned through years of trial and rebuilding. That’s why we created A Market Dairy, our course designed to teach this model to anyone who dreams of keeping their farm alive—and their heart in it.

Because if there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s this:
Sometimes, the hardest seasons are the ones that plant the seeds for something entirely new.

Stay tuned for more on a big sale coming in our Microdairy Course!