Health From the Soil Up

At Berle Farm, we are committed to the quality of our product and we know that it starts, very literally, from the ground up. We view farming as a complete system including the soil, grasses, grains, and animals. We know that the great taste of our cheeses, yogurt and many other products comes from prioritizing health throughout the whole system. Including your health!

Quality Above All Else

From our small beginnings to now, we have always valued quality above all else. We have expanded slowly, but surely, always making sure we have achieved excellence and expertise before expanding production or adding new products. We sell our cheese and yogurt at dozens of stores across NY, VT and MA but at no point has an increase in quantity meant a decrease in quality.

Relentless Commitment to Sustainability

We’ve been saving seed and producing our own fertilizer since the very beginning. Our compost pile rocks 100 worms per gallon of soil. Our products are powered by solar electricity and solar hot water. Sustainability and land conservation are fundamental tenets of our business. They aren’t something we’ve adopted along the way or incorporated when possible but have fundamentally defined our decision making at every step. We love the land.

Woman Owned

The farm was founded by Beatrice Berle in 1989 with the goal of providing good food to her neighbors and investing in the local economy. She continues to own and operate the farm to this day and continues to invest in the local economy and provide good food to her neighbors. The Berle Farm Store is our greatest commitment to our community yet. Beatrice loves farming and has worked hard to share this love with others. Berle Farm is a multi-generational business with a proud history and a bright future.

Cows Make Good Company

At Berle Farm, we spend a lot of time with cows. They are generous, ambitious, and steadfast. There aren’t many creatures that give more than they take but cows provides us with, milk, beef and easy companionship, while only taking grass. They also grow to be 1,500 pounds by just eating grass! If that’s not ambitious, we don’t know what is.

“If you became sixteen hundred pounds eating only grass, I’d be proud of you too.”

Beatrice Berle | Owner

History

Berle Farm has been under the same management for 30 years. Beatrice has little tendency for looking back, though, so when it came time to write our farm history, we decided to use a different approach. History is often written by recording change. Berle Farm has revealed two things in its history: what is consistent is strong, and chronology is merely an organizational tool which may not be relevant.

Every year, there are cows. There’s always grass and with grass, there is haymaking. Food is abundant but by no means the same every year or decade. Spring storms blow winds that terrorize all that is loosely hinged. The sun displays the biggest glory. The fences need mending. There are apples to pick. There are children. The maple run foretells the coming season. The farm work is continually changing but our focus on soil and animal health consistently brings the best joy and flavor to our products. Solar energy is helpful. Experience is a friend.

Berle Farm never skips opportunity to research new methods for preserving flavor and nutrition and has always invested in great tasting food. The whole point is a solid vote for soil grown food, land preservation, and local economy with appreciation for community.