Scenic Rim 4Real Milk

Last week marked the launch of a local dairy farmers attempts to save his family farm by bottling and selling his own milk. Unless you have been living under a rock you would have seen that the major supermarket chains in Australia have taken it upon themselves to bastardise the price of milk by using it as a loss leader in their stores. ie they are selling it below cost to get you the consumer into their store so that you will hopefully buy other more profitable (and probably highly processed) lines from them.

We are happy to support Scenic Rim 4 Real milk because it ticks a lot of boxes for us. One is that they produce full fat unhomogenised milk (thus being less processed than its homogenised counterpart) and two is that it is both produced and processed locally which saves food miles over other brands of milk sold in our stores. The third bonus is of course that we are supporting a local farmer with the profits being returned to the farm and local merchants rather than a faceless multinational corporation.

Scenic Rim 4 Real milk is not unique in its efforts and there are other dairy farms around Australia who have already undertaken these measures so where ever possible we suggest trying to source a locally produced and processed product. And of course choose unhomogenised over homogenised milk. Remember there are supposed to be globs of cream in your milk!