Dairy
Cedar Summit Creamery
Cedar Summit Farm has built a milk processing plant as a natural extension of our business. We feel that our 100% grass fed cows produce a superior product that has much value to the health conscious. We value producer to consumer relationships. Over the past few years we have direct marketed our products giving our consumers value in knowing where their food comes from. Our mission is to provide fresh, wholesome products to you from your neighborhood farm.
“Let your food be your medicine.” Hippocrates 400 BC
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The Magic of Ruminants
The natural food for ruminant animals always has been grass. The members of the bovine family, with their four stomachs, have the amazing ability to convert grass into a high quality food that sustains this large animal. Meat and milk from a 100% grass-fed animal is high in Omega 3 fatty acids and CLA (conjugated linoleic acid), which is essential to the human body.
Essential Fatty Acids – Omega 3 & Omega 6
Until recent times, human beings ate a diet that was pretty well balanced in the two essential fatty acids. Today our diets are highly out of balance with Omega-6 fatty acids being 15 to 20 times higher than Omega-3 fatty acids. This shift has been brought about by our use of grain-based cooking oils and the widespread grain feeding of ruminant animals.
Omega-3 fatty acids come from the green leaves of plants, and cattle that eat grass will have high amounts of Omega-3 fatty acids in their meat and milk. Omega 3 is essential to the well being of the human body, however our bodies cannot make it. Omega 3 tells our bodies to make lean muscle mass, and fights inflammatory diseases as well as diabetes and cancer.
Omega-6 fatty acids come from seeds of plants (grain), and animals that are grain-fed (corn, oats, etc.) will be high in Omega-6 fatty acids. Omega 6 does the same thing to us as it does to steers and pigs-it tells our bodies to store fat!
Medical research has shown that tumors injected with pure Omega-6 fatty acid grew four times as fast as before. In contrast, tumors cease to grow when injected with pure Omega-3 fatty acid. We need more Omega 3 in our diets to balance out the Omega 3 to Omega 6 ratio. These fatty acids both play an important role in our bodies, but they must be in balance.
Because we live in a northern climate, our cows are on grass only 7 months of the year. The other 5 months, the cows are fed stored grasses.
CLA
Members of the cow family are ruminants with four stomachs. These stomachs are designed to convert grass and legumes into CLA (conjugated linoleic acid). This produces milk that is high in Omega-3 fatty acids and CLA. Meat and milk from 100% grass-fed animals is typically four to five times higher in CLA then from traditional grain fed animals. CLA is a better cancer fighter than Omega 3 and CLA promotes lean muscle mass in humans and tells your body to burn fat for fuel.
For more information on milk and meat from 100% grass fed cows go to www.eatwild.com
You can look for us in over 80 food stores in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, as well as stores in Iowa, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Michigan. We also sell products at our creamery store located near the intersection of Scott Co. roads 2 and 15, just north of New Prague. Click on Retail Stores to see the stores and restaurants that sell or serve our products.
Excess milk is sold to PastureLand Co-op, of which we are members. PastureLand produces our cheese and butter.
The Alemar Cheese Company of Mankato uses our milk to produce their awesome Bent River Camembert-style cheese.
Click here for Nutrition Facts on our dairy products.
Cedar Summit Products
Milk
Skim, 1%, 2%, Whole and Chocolate
Available in glass bottles and cartons
Cream
Pints and 1/2 gallon
PastureLand Butter
Salted & Unsalted
PastureLand Cheeses
Raw Milk Cheddar, Meadowlark, Millville, Blue, Regular & Smoked String Cheese
Alemar Cheese
Bent River Camembert-Style Cheese