HOPEWELL — Ask the Galens family about organic milk, and they’ll tell you it wasn’t always their way.
For decades, Galens Homestead Acres in Hopewell, a small family farm nearing the century mark, did dairy the conventional way. But not long after the recession hit in 2008, the farm — now in its third generation — switched to organic production. Driven mainly by practical reasons, Stephen Galens said he wanted to maintain a small operation and found it less cumbersome and more profitable to go organic.
It proved a wise decision. As the demand for organic milk has grown, so has the price that helps offset the cost of organic seed and other requirements of running a farm without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers.
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