Mountain Grove is home to Ozark Mountain Creamery, a family-owned and operated dairy whose owners have been in the dairy business since 1957.
At Ozark Mountain Creamery, things are done the old-fashioned way, from growing their own cow’s feed to the packaging of the milk in glass bottles. Ninety percent of what is fed to the cattle is farm-grown and harvested right on the family’s land. The creamery uses a low-temperature vat pasteurization process, which uses low heat and requires more pasteurization time. This encases flavor while eliminating bad bacteria.
Once collected, the milk is processed and bottled within 48 hours to ensure quality taste and freshness. Shoppers can return the recyclable glass bottles to the store for a bottle deposit refund, which encourages people towards sustainablity.
“We still have some of our original bottles circulating through from when we started 14 years ago,” says Teresa Fry, co-owner of the company.
More more information, visit OzarkMtnCreamery.com/locations.
This article was originally published in the July/August edition of Missouri Life magazine.
Photos by Ozark Mountain Creamery.
