Local dairymen Noel and Rolland Rosa are looking to build a small "micro creamery" at 8125 Goshen Ave. in the Visalia Industrial Park. "We want to offer customers fresh local milk like they did in the 1950s," said Noel Rosa, whose family has been farming near Hanford since 1953. "It's like a micro brewery where you watch product being made and buy fresh natural milk in bottles like you used to."
The project will depend on all approvals from the city of Visalia, which will be regulating milk waste from the small plant. The 13,700 square-foot bottling plant would be in stark contrast right down the road from one the state's largest milk plants at California Dairies.
Rosa Brothers Milk Co. would be built on land owned by Facility Partners, which would be the building contractor on the project as well. Rosa says the milk plant could produce up to 10,000 gallons a day but will start up making perhaps 500 gallons. Because most milk will be low-fat, look for the plant to utilize the cream to make old-fashioned ice cream with "none of those multi-syllable added ingredients," he said.
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