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Sustainability encompasses many things for many people, but let’s keep it simple, for Cabot: sustainability means smart farming and smart business. Sustainable farms are simply doing what makes sense for their bank accounts, their land and animals, and their families....

We are pleased to share our big news: Cabot Creamery Co-operative has won the 2016 U.S. Dairy Sustainability Award! The award, given by the Innovation Center for US Dairy, nationally recognizes Cabot as a business that exemplifies the triple bottom line of...

Most people recognize, regardless of their background, that the benefits of growing up on a farm are numerous. Being outdoors with room to run, being less likely to develop allergies and asthma, frequent interactions with nature and having time for quiet...

Every dairy farmer has their favorite part of the job – whether it’s working closely with family, getting to be outside or working with the animals. This week, summer intern and #CabotFarmer from Five Mile Farm, Allison Akins shares some of...

This week we are honored to feature a luminary within our Cooperative. Robert Foster of Foster Brothers Farm in Middlebury, VT, served on our Board of Directors from 1978 until December 31, 2015 – a total of 37 consecutive years and through...

Hartland, Vermont Ezra Richardson just finished up his freshman year, studying Environmental Science at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. His family’s farm, Richardson Family Farm, is just across the Vermont border and an hour north of where Ezra...

Butter and Sugar, Silver Queen, and Bodacious all have one thing in common, they’re simply delicious. No matter the type of sweet corn you’re eating, everyone can agree nothing beats family farm grown freshly picked corn – especially loaded with Cabot...

For this week’s Farmer Friday we are pleased to feature Brian McGarry of McGarry Dairy in Enosburg Falls, VT. Brian recently finished his freshman year at Virginia Tech, studying Dairy Science. We caught Brian between travel, recently home from Blacksburg,...

Madrid, New York This week’s Farmer Friday blog takes us to Madrid, NY, located in beautiful Saint Lawrence County and part of the state’s ‘North Country’. The area is home to many of the 650 New York dairy farm families...

The sweetest hobby Farmers work hard. They milk the cows at least twice a day, every day. They work to ensure their cows’ comfort. They grow food for the herd. Farmers rise early, finish late and often check the barn...

Rochester, Vermont In order to survive and thrive, Cabot farm families have learned many ways to diversify. Within the Cabot Cooperative there are sugar-makers, cheese makers, potato growers, pudding makers, painters, compost businesses and even CowPots, the makers of biodegradable,...

As many farmers would say, the key to being a successful dairy farm is to diversify. Some farmers choose to add on beef cows, some grow vegetables for a farm stand, and others do something entirely different, definitely delicious; they...