The farm to table concept is now alive and well for dairy products in the Atlanta metro area with locally grown and made artisan cheese and yogurts. AtlantaFresh Artisan Creamery brings locavores a line of super fresh quality products that arrive to market literally a matter of a few days from when the cow got milked at a local farm. Our line of super fresh, artisan mozzarellas and yogurts arrive at your favorite market with the same pristine freshness as herbs or baby vegetables from a local farmer. Handmade small batch cheese and yogurt makes a difference in quality and flavor that speaks for itself.
In the Atlanta metro area, we offer you a product line which was grown, made and distributed within about a 40 mile footprint of most anywhere in the city. We’re proud to support the Farm to Table mission statement with our direct business partners of local family dairy farms. Our honey yogurt is made with raw unfiltered Wildflower Honey, harvested in north Georgia by Blue Ridge Honey Company. We utilize existing local fine foods and produce Retail and farmers markets around the city for our distribution to local restaurants and markets.
Local & Fresh: Our Milk
We are proud to partner with Johnston’s Family Farm as our exclusive supplier of fresh milk.
We receive fresh raw milk from Russell Johnston’s farm daily and vat pasteurize it in small batches. Pasteurizing at lower temperatures (versus the way commercial dairies pasteurize at higher temperatures) allows the natural flavor and quality of the milk to shine through with great flavor. Whole milk from the Johnston Family Farm won second place in the dairy products category in this year’s “Georgia Grown” food products competition. Russell uses all natural farming techniques and never uses hormone or antibiotic treatments on his herd. The Johnston family farm grows oats and hay to provide their own feed and silage to feed the cows during the winter season.
Russell Johnston is a second generation dairy farmer with 160 acres and a herd of about 180 primarily Jersey breed cows (Jerseys give the best milk for cheese) located about 45 minutes east of downtown Atlanta in Newborn, Georgia. We receive ultra-fresh milk daily from Johnston Family Farm with milk that is less than a day out of the cows.
Russell’s cows really are happy contented cows (no bull). This is not a factory dairy farm. These cows spend their days grazing on open farm pasture land in the rolling hills of Morgan County.
Russell gives tours of the farm and would be glad to introduce you to the cows that supply their wonderful milk to our creamery.
