One Family, One Farm: Waitts Launch Dairy, Sell Whole Milk

At 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. every day, the Waitt family brings eight of their 90 cows in to the milking barn at Dandy Breeze Dairy in Sheridan. Although the Waitts have produced their own milk for years, the family recently began selling products last month. Their whole milk is sold at nine local stores.

“My dad’s (Tom Waitt) been dreaming of doing this for 20 years,” said Samuel Waitt, a sixth-grade science teacher at Westfield Intermediate School. “Two years ago, things got into motion and we figured out a plan of what to do. Building the creamery started a year ago.”

The Waitts bottle the milk twice a week, but they plan to work up to three times a week. The family only bottles whole milk in half gallon sizes.

“There’s a niche market for what we do,” Samuel said. “Over the past 10 years or so, there’s more of a push where people like to know where their food came from and like to know that it’s been minimally processed. Under the ingredients on our label, it just says ‘milk.’ There’s nothing added, nothing lost. It’s just untouched by human hands. You probably won’t see us in Kroger or Walmart or anything, but it’ll be more specialty stores like Market District where there’s a big push for natural food.”

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