Dairy Farms & Creameries near Long Valley, NJ

Long Valley

Valley Shepherd Creamery makes more than fifty artisan dairy products, cheese especially, on its farm at 50 Fairmount Road in Long Valley. The old-fashioned creamery blends European dairy practices with modern equipment and opens for farm tours, tastings, and special events, all within about an hour of New York City. Reach them at [email protected] or (908) 876-3200.

Milford

Milford

Bobolink Dairy & Bakehouse makes aged, raw-milk cheeses from a 100% grass-fed herd on Stamets Road in Milford, Hunterdon County. The bakehouse turns out wood-fired sourdough breads from an outdoor wood oven, and the farm store sells cheese, bread, and grass-fed meat. Bobolink hosts farm tours and seasonal pizza nights, and its cheeses turn up at New York-area farmers markets.

Frankford Township

Hillcrest Orchard and Dairy pairs an apple orchard with a dairy operation in Frankford Township, Sussex County, in the rolling farmland of northwestern New Jersey. Its former website is no longer active, so the current crops, dairy products, and hours can't be confirmed online.

Gorgeous Goat Creamery is a goat dairy that makes farmstead cheese and milk from its own herd. It is listed under New Jersey, but no website or public record confirms its town or where to buy, so its details aren't verifiable online.

Easton

Klein Farms Dairy & Creamery in Forks Township, Easton has been in business since 1935, now run by third-generation farmers Layne and Beth Klein on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River. The farm store, open 8 to 7 daily, sells raw milk, gourmet mozzarella and aged cheeses, Greek-style yogurt and drinkable Smoogurt, brown eggs, farm-raised beef and pork, and homemade ice cream from the Happy Holstein stand.

Owowcow Creamery makes ice cream from scratch every day using local organic cream, roasting its own fruit and dipping signature popsicles, with vegan flavors in the case too. The scoop shops sit in Bucks County, Pennsylvania — Ottsville, Wrightstown, Chalfont, and Easton — plus one across the river in Lambertville, New Jersey.