Tuesday, my wife and I drove down to Bosque Farms (~25 miles south of Albuquerque) to visit Sunshine Farms, where we purchased a gallon of raw, grass-fed goat milk and a gallon of raw, grass-fed cow milk (raw as in unpasteurized — i.e., they don’t boil all the enzymes and nutrients out of it).
When we got home, my wife helped me perform a blind taste test. I compared Organic Valley whole milk to the raw cow milk. The winner? Raw. It has a mild, slightly sweet taste and none of the gaminess I normally associate with cow milk.
We can (and do) buy raw goat milk here in Santa Fe in the spring and summer, but it’s not available in the winter months, so we may try to make the trek down to Bosque Farms more often (we might try buying extra and freezing it — we’ve never frozen milk before, but people say you can do it).
Check out realmilk.com for more info and see if there’s a raw milk source near you. I encourage you to give it a try if you haven’t already.
