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In this episode of Buying Local, your host Mike Nelson of Five Towers Media interviews Chuck and Sara Curtiss, owners of Willow-Marsh Farm. Tune in as they discuss raw vs pasteurized milk, what happens when you have a listeria scare, the importance of teaching agriculture in schools and much more!

0:05 Introducing Sara and Chuck

0:58 Raw Milk vs Pasteurized Milk

5:15 Feeding the Cows

6:06 How Much Milk in a Day?

7:46 Listeria Inspections 

11:55 Milk Sampling

13:18 The Cow Milking Process

16:30 12 Hour Days

17:00 The Equipment

18:56 From Tank to Bottle

20:44 Scaling the Farm

23:00 Price Fixing

23:29 “Pet Food Grade”

24:50 Selling from the Farm vs the Grocery Store

28:50 Agriculture in the Classroom

32:33 Where does Milk come from?

36:01 The Listeria Scare

38:15 Cows don’t have to be Pregnant to be Milked

42:13 Timing Dairy Farming 

43:44 The Farm Store

50:04 Where to Find Sara and Chuck