132. Why We Bought a Milk Machine After a Decade of Hand-Milking

Old Fashioned On Purpose

Jill Winger

Cows, Home & Garden, Education, Cooking, Homesteading, Leisure, Hobbies, Canning, Chickens, Homestead, Farm, Gardening, Farming, How To

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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After being hardcore proponents of hand milking for a decade, we finally made the decision to cave in and buy a milk machine. So why is now the time to make a change? As I’ve mentioned in recent episodes, we’ve committed to becoming producers for our community. Simply put, in order to be able to produce milk in large quantities, it was no longer viable to milk by hand. While I did have some reservations at first, I soon found out the time saved greatly outweighed any c...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Old Fashioned On Purpose Podcast.
0:05.0	I can't believe we did this, but we bought a milking machine.
0:10.0	After a decade of hand milking while sitting on a bucket on a dirt floor and swatting flies as we went,
0:18.0	it is definitely an improvement, but I'm still a little bit in shock and it feels a little bit weird.
0:25.7	I've had a lot of questions about how we came to this point after being pretty hardcore proponents of hand milking for so many years and so I wanted to share
0:36.8	the whole process in today's episode. I'm your host Jill Winger and this is the podcast for the Trail Blazers.
0:45.0	The Mavericks, the makers, the homesteaders, the modern pioneers and the backyard farmers.
0:51.0	If you're ready to boost your food security and live a more homegrown lifestyle, well, this is the place for you.
0:58.0	Hey there, I'm interrupting this episode for just a sec
1:02.5	because I really wanted to tell you
1:04.6	that the mailman brought me a 25 pound bag of salt this week.
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