Dairy Farms & Creameries in California

Alexandre Kids Eggs

Crescent City, CA

Alexandre Family Farm on California's northernmost coast at Crescent City is America's first certified regenerative, grass-pastured A2/A2 organic dairy, built on the principle that health starts in the soil. The family produces nutrient-dense A2/A2 organic milk, flavored milk, yogurt, and kefir, plus pasture-raised eggs from mobile coops — an operation the Alexandre kids started as an FFA project — all USDA Organic and free of chemicals, hormones, and antibiotics.

Bi-Rite Creamery

San Francisco, CA

Bi-Rite Creamery in San Francisco's Mission District makes small-batch ice cream and baked goods by hand, churning organic Straus Family Creamery dairy with peak-season ingredients like Masumoto peaches and Guittard chocolate. Open daily from noon to 9, the shop rotates two dozen flavors — Salted Caramel is the classic — plus sundaes, popsicles, ice cream sandwiches, and cakes.

Blackbird Farm

Philo, CA

Blackbird Farm is a sustainable farm in Anderson Valley at Philo, California, where an on-site creamery turns out cheese sold with house jams, mustard, and breads. The farm welcomes overnight guests and offers hiking, horseback riding, events, and farm-to-table classes.

Blackbird Farm

Philo, CA

Blackbird Farm practices sustainable farming in Anderson Valley at Philo, where the farm creamery makes cheese sold alongside house jams, mustard, and breads. Guests can stay on the property and enjoy hiking, horseback riding, farm-to-table classes, and events.

Blackbird Farm

Philo, CA

Blackbird Farm in Philo practices sustainable farming in California's Anderson Valley. The farm's creamery produces cheese sold alongside jams, mustard, and breads, and visitors can stay on the property, hike, ride horseback, and attend farm-to-table classes and events.

DeJong's Dairy

Wildomar, CA

DeJong's Dairy in Wildomar bills itself as the Inland Empire's friendliest dairy — a family-owned and operated farm famous for its chocolate milk. The on-site neighborhood market sells milk, local farm eggs, local honey, ice cream, and candy plus a full range of animal feed, pet food, hay, and straw, and the dairy books tours in the fall.

Duivenvoorden Farms

Cottonwood, CA

The Duivenvoorden family has been dairying in Northern California for over 60 years at their small family-owned Grade A dairy in Cottonwood. Their 100% grass-fed cows — every one with a name — stay on pasture 365 days a year with no grain, producing raw milk sold in stores, through herd shares, and at the on-farm store, while the farm also hosts tours, school field trips, a dairy Airbnb, and the annual Raw Milk and Cookies Day.

Duivenvoorden Farms

Cottonwood, CA

Duivenvoorden Farms is a small family-owned Grade A dairy in Cottonwood, California that has been dairying in Northern California for over 60 years. The farm produces 100% grass-fed raw milk from cows pastured 365 days a year — every cow has a name — sold in stores, through herd shares, and at the on-farm store, alongside farm tours, field trips, a farm-stay Airbnb, and the annual Raw Milk and Cookies Day.

Garden Variety Cheese

Royal Oaks, CA

Garden Variety Cheese is a small farmstead sheep dairy on 40-acre Monkeyflower Ranch in northern Monterey County, milking and making cheese since 2009. Its 80 ewes — each named after a garden flower — graze fresh pasture supplemented with alfalfa and organic grain, with no chemical wormers or antibiotics, producing rich sheep's milk cheeses and yogurt year-round through staggered breeding.

Pennyroyal Farm

Boonville, CA

At Pennyroyal Farm in Boonville, a family-owned creamery, vineyard, and farmstead work as one — every wine and cheese is produced entirely from what the Anderson Valley farm grows and tends. Book a farm tour to meet the goats, taste cheese and wine daily at the tasting room, or join the Farm to Table membership for curated cheese shipments and farm benefits.

Pennyroyal Farm

Boonville, CA

Pennyroyal Farm in Boonville is a family-owned sustainable farm, creamery, and vineyard in Anderson Valley, producing farmstead cheeses and estate wines entirely from what the farm grows and tends. Visitors can book farm tours to meet the goat herd, taste at the on-site tasting room, or join the Farm to Table membership for curated cheese shipments.

Rowdy Oak

RowdyOAK Dairy is a Jersey cow herd share in northern Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County, where members enjoy the benefits of raw milk — one share provides a half gallon weekly at convenient pickup locations around Acton and Agua Dulce. Sister brand Rowdy Rooster Co. adds homegrown goat soaps and products.

Rumiano Cheese Co

Crescent City, CA

Since 1919, Rumiano Cheese Company of Crescent City has turned milk from neighboring multi-generational family farms into organic cheddar, pepper jack, mozzarella, gouda, butter, and cheese dips. The partner farms sit within a hundred miles on California's Redwood Coast, where over 100 inches of annual rain keeps American Humane Certified cows grazing biodiverse grasslands year-round without antibiotics or growth hormones.

Rumiano Cheese Co

Crescent City, CA

Rumiano Cheese Company in Crescent City, California has crafted cheese since 1919, sourcing organic milk from small, multi-generational family farms on the Redwood Coast whose American Humane Certified cows graze biodiverse pastures year-round without antibiotics or growth hormones. The company produces organic cheddar, pepper jack, mozzarella, gouda, butter, and cheese dips using regenerative, environmentally friendly practices.

Rumiano Cheese Co

Crescent City, CA

Rumiano Cheese Company has been crafting cheese in Crescent City, California since 1919, partnering with multi-generational family dairy farms within a hundred miles of the creamery. Milk comes from American Humane Certified cows grazing the Redwood Coast's rain-fed grasslands year-round — no antibiotics or growth hormones — and becomes organic cheddar, pepper jack, mozzarella, gouda, butter, and cheese dips.