Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia
My wife Gayle and I own and operate Double M Dairy and Melvin’s Farm to Fork Store with our 6 children. We are a grass fed 75 cow dairy which runs 60 replacement heifers, feeds out 60 steers, 12 pastured hogs and 800 pastured layers. All milk, beef, pork and eggs are sold retail. It has been a long and difficult journey from 130 head dairy shipping everything wholesale to our current state.
Somewhere around 2007 I realized that the product that I put on the milk truck was better than what was being sold in the store. Furthermore, my check-off dollar was being sent to promote low fat/ no fat which has historically been a waste product for the processors, when the highest return for consumers dollar to the dairyman was full fat fluid milk. This led me to stumble across R-CALF USA which is the only organization that seems to be willing to battle the status quo. I look forward to helping this organization continue to stand firm on the principles of our Lord and Savior and to further strengthen the blessings of a nation founded upon those principles.