“I really notice a plastic taste in the milk.” Like most farming families, the Hill family grew up on raw milk and Bronwyn says she could taste the difference in the supermarket milk she would have to buy from time-to-time.
“They (the customers) like that it’s milk the way nature intended it and they know where it’s from.” While MPI regulations prevent Jess from promoting the raw milk, she says it still makes up about 40 percent of their sales. “The regulations are extremely strict but we have got really great results,” Dave says. Raw milk does not go through the pasteurisation process so it must meet stringent Ministry of Primary Industries regulations.ĭave says there were a lot of hoops to jump through to get MPI certification and they are still required to test once a week for bacterium levels. “It’s awesome to be able to provide parttime work for locals,” Jess says.īecause the milk is now available pasteurised, Dreamview can sell it anywhere, whereas their raw milk, by law, must be delivered door to door. This meant hiring more staff and buying more trucks. T hey now deliver nearly 7,000 litres of A2 milk a week to cafes and shops in Raglan, Hamilton, Tauranga and Mount Maunganui. However, as demand grew, they bought a refrigerated truck and started delivering to homes in Raglan.
When they started out selling MPI certified raw A2 milk from the farm gate, the creamery was based in a converted shipping container and locals would drive up the windy farm driveway to pick up their supplies. They will continue using glass for the yoghurt and Jess reckons they could be the first milk-based yoghurt to come in reusable glass jars. In doing so, they have saved more than 150,000 plastic bottles that would have ordinarily been used to get the milk to the marketplace. Over the years they have moved to more sustainable practices, and from the very beginnings of Dreamview Creamery, the milk was sold in reusable glass bottles. But it got to the point where it was, maybe four or 500 litres, and only just enough to warrant them coming to pick it up.” “Fonterra came every second day and it kind of depended on what we were doing in the creamery that day as to how much milk would be left for Fonterra. The soon-to-be released Dreamview yoghurt should take care of the milk normally supplied to Fonterra and Jess say they were only producing just enough excess milk to make it worth Fonterra’s while anyway. During Covid it was actually quite good to be able to still send our excess milk to Fonterra.” We were considering doing it last year, and I’m probably kind of glad that we didn’t. O wned and operated by the Hill family, the Raglan business recently issued Fonterra with a cease to supply notice.ĭaughter and creamery manager Jess says it’s an exciting step in their journey to run independently and the realisation of the dream idea she proposed to her parents, Dave and Bronwyn, to stop selling milk to Fonterra, bottle it themselves and sell locally. When Dreamview Creamery first dipped their gumboots into farm gate raw milk sales in 2017 they never dreamed the business would get as big as it has
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