Freunds Farm

The Freund Family farm is a third-generation dairy farm that stewards 600 acres of land with 300 Holstein cows. The farm has taken steps to ensure sustainability of the operation for the next generation. The farm owners have installed many energy efficiency measures on the farm as well as installed two solar arrays, one ground mounted and the other roof mounted on their new robotic milking barn. Putting farm’s most abundant byproduct, cow manure to good use as a renewable source of power, the family actually built an early methane digester prototype. The only operating digester on a CT farm to this day. With decades of hard work, the Freunds have been recognized as national leaders in sustainable practices and received the inaugural U.S. Dairy Sustainability Award for Outstanding Resource Stewardship.

To learn more about the Freund’s Family, watch this Must Be the Milk Video.