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Field Notes from Jess ~ Rewilding in 2021 | Week 25/52 | Spring

butter making diy healthy lifestyle nutrition Jun 13, 2021
Healthy Lifestyle, Nutrition, DIY, Making Butter, Raw Foods
Field notes from Jess ~ Rewilding in 2021 | Week 25 of 52 | Farm Fresh Homemade Raw Butter
This week I dialed a friend, Laurie Barta, Who is a one woman dairy farmer and owner of Cozy Vale Creamery in Tenino Washington. This is where I get my raw, whole dairy milk.
Drinking milk or consuming dairy products that have not been pasteurized or homogenized offer natural enzymes for proper nutrient absorption and digestion. It also contains all the fatty acids, vitamins and minerals and is considered a complete food. Those who are sensitive to dairy can often handle raw milk because of this ~ rawsome!
I texted Laurie:
“Do you sell raw butter?”
Laurie: “I don’t, but I have some fresh cream and you’re welcome to pick some up and make your own LOL.”
Me: “Can I come over now?”
Laurie: “Yeah cows are just coming in for milking”
I jumped on the opportunity to meet the cows and after a quick Google search realized it wouldn’t take very long to make raw butter. These are happy girls that roam freely and graze in lush pastures at Laurie’s micro-dairy. I was introduced to them by name and watched “Bitzi”, a Holstein/Jersey mix, offer her morning milk.
After collecting fresh cream, I went home and began the simple process of making butter. She gave me an old-fashioned hand-cranked apparatus but I decided to go 21st century and used my Ninja Blender 🙌🏼. Five minutes later, I strained out the buttermilk, rinsed under cold water, added Himalayan sea salt and molded into a mason jar. BOOM ~ delicious, creamy, golden butter! (Pro tip…I used the buttermilk to make my boys blueberry pancakes)
Everything is better with butter, but DIY raw butter after meeting the cows made this butter #extra …and added a special rewilding opportunity to my week!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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