Please email membership(at)justdairy.org to be added to the waiting
list. (Replace the (at) with @)
Basics about Just
Dairy:
(Read carefully,
if you sign the release form, you are signing that you understand this.)
- Suggestion: When changing your milk from one source to another source, families have had better results
by gradually introducing the new source to your family, mixing the two for a week or so.
- Before picking up your milk, always check www.justdairy.org homepage to make sure it has arrived. Click refresh often as sometimes your computer will hold old information.
If dates are still old, the milk is not there yet.
- If I
don't answer your e-mail within 2 days, please write again.
- No drives
are required to the farm. Instead, your membership fees are used to pay for transporting and processing your orders.
- Most
everything is done by e-mail. Check email often and www.justdairy.org for updates. Contacting me by telephone is not as reliable as e-mailing. If I don’t answer your e-mail,
please ask again and be persistent or ask for confirmation.
- You
are no longer required to assist with the local drive rotation, instead, you are contributing to the gas costs to
have another Just Dairy member pick up your order.
- With a month-to-month commitment, members are charged a
$15 weekly membership fee, effective 7/1/2008. You can opt to pay a $700 annual fee or pay the $15 weekly fee.
If you need to leave the group, I'll pro-rate and refund your money that is not used. If you are traveling for over
4 weeks, your membership will be suspended and you'll have the option to join again upon your return.
- For legal reasons, milk is pre-purchased. One month minimum
pre-payment is required. If you know what your next month's bill will be or have already received the next month's
invoice, please try to send your payment to arrive during the last week of the month. Otherwise,
you can wait until you have received the invoice of what will be ordered for you for the next month. You pay the farmer's
price for the milk that you receive.
- Distribution points are:
Belmont, Brookline, Roxbury, Cambridge, Essex, Hamilton, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Topsfield, Revere, Rockport, Swampscott,
Newton & Newton Centre, and Medford. Looking for more distribution points in the city.
- Just
Dairy depends on your cooperation, flexibility, patience and your enthusiasm for the process.
- Keep a regular weekly
order, “Standing Order.” Advise orders(at)justdairy.org only when you wish to cancel, decrease or add products
before Thursday at 5PM.
- Pick up your order within 3 days or advise me that you will be late.
- Tear off your order tag
each week and advise if there is a discrepancy on the tag immediately. The items on the tag are what you are
charged each week. PLEASE make sure you understand how to read the tags. The numbers on the tag are
what you are actually receiving, not always what you order. Always ask if you are not sure. I recommend, keeping
the little tag that you tear off to compare when you receive your statement of account (write the date on the tag.)
- Keep
records of your monthly order to compare with the account activity report that you will receive from me.
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Please email membership(at)justdairy.org. Replace the (at) with @
Details about Just Dairy
Buying Club Information
(Read carefully, if you sign
the release form, you are signing that you understand this.)
There are five Massachusetts
dairies that sell state-licensed, pasture-fed raw milk on www.realmilk.com, Upinngil Land of Milk and Honey in Gill, Chase Hill Dairy
in Warwick, Robinson Farm & Misty Brook Farm, both in Hardwick, and a new one in Foxboro. There is another licensed pasture-based dairy in Warren
MA, Rocky Acres Farms. Just Dairy gets milk from Robinson Farm and Rocky Acres Farms during most of the year. Rocky Acres
is not yet listed on www.realmilk.com. Robinson Farm is transitioning to organic.
Just Dairy is a large farm direct Buying club. Pre-purchased fresh milk costs $6 per gallon,
$4 per half gallon. Great farm eggs are $3 per dozen. Credit card payments are accepted after you register and
get activated on http://www.broodfood.com/registration.php. Payments are a shopping cart item, chose your quantity. Or you can ask for the mailing address to mail payments.
NOFA/Mass Dairy Survival Campaign assists Massachusetts dairies to become licensed by the
state to sell raw milk. Small, clean, pasture-fed/pasture based dairies are assisted. Just Dairy is a Buying club
of raw milk consumers who would like to drink unprocessed milk from dairies that fit within certain strict requirements.
Legally, the dairies must bottle their milk. The milk is bottled using plastic jugs that can be transferred into glass
containers at home if you prefer.
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Just
Dairy currently breaks down in to several geographical areas:
Belmont, Brookline, Roxbury, Cambridge, Essex, Hamilton,
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Topsfield, Revere, Rockport, Swampscott, Newton & Newton Centre and Medford.
All the coordination, ordering and accounts are performed in a central location. The
refrigerators at the distribution points are set up to be mostly self-serve. You do not need to contact the distribution
points to join the Buying club.
You need to pre-pay for 1 month worth of your orders and membership
fees, read, print, sign and mail the release of liability.
Once you've tasted the milk through Just Dairy and know that you like it, you'd continue
to pay in advance, for a minimum of at least 4 weeks worth of orders at a time. Try to time your payments so that they
will be received during the last week of the month. It is preferred that you pay a lump sum toward your milk, then account reports
will be sent to you at least monthly.
There is no way to make a Just Dairy order on the web, you must e-mail orders(at)justdairy.org to make an order.
When driving to a distribution
point to pick up your milk, please confirm on www.justdairy.org that the milk has arrived before you make the trip.
A Release of Liability form and a membership fee of $15 per week have been implemented. This fee helps
out with all the operational costs and ensures that Just Dairy will be a sustainable operation.
The www.justdairy.org home page advises you when the milk has arrived at
your distribution point.
Once you've joined the Buying club, please start a milk standing order
for each week of the month, and then tell Kim at:
orders(at)justdairy.org when you don't want milk. It is easy to change your standing
order while you are getting to know your family's milk consumption.
Some people have a standard order alternating amounts of milk every other week. Orders
to dairies are placed on Fridays of each week. If you need to cancel or change your order, please do so before
midnight on Wednesdays. Please keep track of what you receive each week. That way
we can compare records with one another.
Milk is from dairies that are pasture-based only. Organic certification isn't the most important
aspect of this milk, pasture-based is. Farmers that have the consciousness to let their cows roam are organically minded
and use natural cow care compared to confinement dairies. The cows are their family!
Many
other farm fresh products will be made available often. Email justdairy(at)comcast.net for more information. Replace
the (at) with @
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You might be interested in a membership to NOFA/Massachusetts to get a copy of their Organic Food Guide, or you can
get it right online. The Organic Food Guide lists every farm in Massachusetts that will sell meat, eggs, and produce.
A great place to look for organic, pasture fed cheeses is when the Farmer's Markets start each spring. Check out
the Raw Milk Campaign.
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You are encouraged to browse the Weston A. Price Foundation Website. Please consider becoming a Weston A. Price Foundation
member for the health benefits and their amazing quarterly periodical Wise
Traditions In Food, Farming and the Healing Arts.
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Write to justdairy(at)comcast.net to send
your signed release form as well as your pre-payment, order, and contact information.
Good Health and Good Milk.
Cyndy Gray for Just Dairy
http://www.nofamass.org/programs/rawmilk/index.php
Weston A. Price Foundation North Shore Chapter, Manchester, MA
