Since leaving the telecommunications industry in 1993, Starlight Dairy has brought farm-fresh milk and other local foods from partner farms to customers’ doorsteps across Westchester County and beyond. Its reusable glass-bottle delivery and small, efficient team give the traditional milk route a practical local focus, now serving more than 20 communities. The business is family-owned and has customers who first used its service as children and now order for their own families.
Hartzler Family Dairy, IncHartzler Family Dairy, Inc. is a family-owned Wooster dairy that farms, processes and sells minimally processed milk along with dairy products such as cheese and hand-packed ice cream. Harold and Patricia Hartzler began farming in Wayne County in the early 1950s, and the family opened its Wooster storefront and processing plant in 1996. Today, Joe Hartzler and his son Jace run the business under the family philosophy “As Nature Intended,” using pasture-fed cows in warm months and returning milk in reusable glass bottles.WOOSTER, OH
Maplehofe DairyThe Glick family has run Maplehofe Dairy since opening its public store in 1974, building on Aaron and Susie Glick’s dairy-farming roots dating to 1948. The Quarryville business serves its local community with fresh milk processed weekly in its own plant and a farm-store experience that includes hand-dipped ice cream.QUARRYVILLE, PA
Clark Farms CreamerySince 1907, the Clark family has farmed in Delhi, New York, and Clark Farms Creamery now turns milk from its own five-generation herd into minimally processed dairy products. Kyle Clark returned home with an agricultural sciences degree in 2018 and reopened the family’s former creamery as a 21st-century dairy lab in 2020, serving the Catskills with fresh milk and hand-packed butter.DELHI, NY