Our Farms
2025 Green Pasture Award Winners – Rainbow Valley Farm
Eight of Maine’s dairy farms were nominated by peers to earn the New England Green Pastures Award, which recognizes an outstanding dairy farm from each New England state. Congratulations to the Bragg family and Rainbow Valley Farm, Sidney, Maine for their efforts in outstanding dairy farm stewardship practices! “The summer I was seven, I remember … Continued
2024 Green Pastures Award Winner – Caverly Farms LLC
Eleven families were nominated at the Maine Dairy Seminar and online for Maine’s 2024 New England Green Pastures Award. Of those nominations, three operations were finalists. The selection committee visited these farms and selected Caverly Farm for the 2024 Maine Dairy Farm and Family of the Year. The Caverly family, will be recognized at the … Continued
2023 Green Pastures Award Winner – Green Valle Farm
The Maine Green Pastures Program committee visited two dairy farms in July 2023, and they selected Green Valle Farm for the 2023 Maine Dairy Farm and Family of the Year (Green Pasture Award). The Green Valle Farm began when the Miller’s settled in Newburg, ME, in the mid-1850s. Linwood and Myron Miller, Heath’s grandfather and … Continued
2022 Green Pastures Award Winner – Paine Farm
The Maine Green Pastures committee visited two Maine dairy farms on Friday, July 1, 2022, and selected Paine Farm as the recipient of the 2022 Maine Outstanding Dairy Farm of the Year. The Paine’s will represent Maine dairy farmers over the next year. Dean and Juanita Paine are the current owners of this outstanding dairy … Continued
2021 Green Pasture Award Winner – Harris Farm
Dairy farming isn’t just milking cows, scooping poop, and taking care of cows and calves. Much of a farmer’s year is spent in the fields, prepping the ground, planting and harvesting feed for cattle. When you rely on yourself and the land to grow the majority of feed for your animals, it can be difficult … Continued
2020 Maine Green Pastures Winner – Lowell Family Farm
The Lowell Family Farm is a perfect example of how no two dairy farms are alike. Each operates based on a number of factors including the interests and skillsets of the farmers and employees, available land, facilities, agricultural philosophies, and even the chosen breed of cattle for that farm, to name a few. “It didn’t … Continued
What People Have to Say
Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council works with schools across the state, offering grants each year for needed school nutrition equipment.
Tina Fabian, RSU 3
The milk barrels were a fun and engaging marketing tool to showcase milk. Displaying them at the end of our serving line had a noticeable impact, encouraging more students to choose milk with their meals. We sincerely appreciate the support of the Maine Dairy Council in helping make this possible!
Denise Tapley, RSU 89
The coolers were extremely useful to our program, besides use in the regular summer program. The kids thought they were super cool and awesome looking! We appreciate your organization so much and love our coolers.
Wendy McDonald, Orrington and Dedham
The students love seeing the milk in the milk barrels and picking it up themselves. They like that the milk is so cold- that has really surprised them how cold the barrels keep the milk.
Cyndi Kimball, Easton
This piece of equipment is the coolest—both figuratively and literally. The students truly enjoy having access to the yogurt bar, especially with the fresh fruit mix-ins. Honestly, we didn’t realize just how much yogurt we were going through until we saw the distributor’s numbers. It's clearly a big hit!
Tammy Conners, RSU 74
We have been fortunate to be able to receive coolers when needed for many years. The coolers are a must to serve meals off site and away from our cafeterias (summer meals, field trips or simply spring picnics outside.) The size is much safer for staff to carry than a large chest cooler and we do pack reasonably even though the coolers can hold a full crate of milk. Your support is very much appreciated!
