Crescent Ridge Dairy’s delicious 1% Milk and 2% Milk is made by a unique, small-batch blending process. We start with rich whole milk then slowly blend in super-premium non-fat milk until we get the creamiest 1% and 2% milk you’ve ever tasted. The non-fat milk we use for blending comes to us from the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery.

The St. Albans Cooperative was founded in 1919 in St. Albans, Vermont. Today the cooperative is made up of 500 member farms, including the Howrigan Family farm, and handles 1.25 billion pounds of fluid milk annually—all of which is tested under direct microscope and graded for quality.

In 1981, St. Albans created an annual recognition program to encourage its members’ farms to produce quality milk. As part of this program, all member farms are inspected and graded. The farm’s grade along with the grade of its milk determines the final score given to each producer. (The Howrigan Family Farm has won the Most Distinguished Farm Award for 24 consecutive years.) In addition, many of the farms are also inspected by the State to ensure quality of the milk sold.

At Crescent Ridge, we pay a premium price to get the best of the best—Premium 1A Quality Milk. On top of that, Crescent Ridge pays additional premiums to the Cooperative for milk that is supplied from farmers who pledge to not treat their herds with rBST* growth hormone. This milk is collected, then shipped directly to our dairy in Sharon, Massachusetts where it’s carefully blended in small batches, bottled in real glass bottles, and hand-delivered first thing in the morning to you and your family.

* No difference has been shown between milk derived from rBST-supplemented (or treated) cows and non-supplemented cows. FDA