You'll be seeing a new type of top-grade yogurt on your grocery shelves soon, and it's the brainchild of two Rochester-area farmers.
The just-launched Flying Cow Creamery, which produces the yogurt brand you'll now see in places like Marlene's Market and Deli in Tacoma and Federal Way, and the Tacoma, Olympia and Yelm food co-ops, was also the solution to one big business problem, as well as the way to two local residents' small-business dreams.
The story is this: Keith Fagerness, who runs a three-generation dairy farm in Independence Valley, was looking for a way to downsize last year. Neighbor and Icelandic transplant Selma Bjarnadottir, who was creating high-demand homemade yogurt for valley residents at her Black Sheep creamery, wanted to expand.
"About three years ago we started working on our plan, figuring out how do we start a new business," Bjarnadottir says. "Little by little, we started working on everything."
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