I grew up in a dairy farming community in Maine, and how cows live & are treated is very important to me. Farmers I trust there know & respect your family, products, process, and care for your animals, which is how I heard about your farm.

I have severe food allergies, so I’m not able to eat commercially manufactured products, and definitely can’t have any vegan dairy products. Minimally processed & unsweetened items I used to buy at local farms in Maine, like yogurt & milk, were harder to find living near Boston, especially as I didn’t know any local organic farms. Thankfully, after I heard about them, I was able to find your yogurt, cream & buttermilk at some grocery stores in my area. Now I order them weekly through Farmers To You .

I also really appreciate your use of solar & commitment to environmental practices, and Jersey cows & products have always been my favorite. All of these things have kept me a loyal customer for almost a decade!

My thoughts are with you all, with the loss of Jack. I know he meant a lot to everyone who knew him. May his memory be a blessing!

~ Tammy, MA

I saw your farm on a Montréal tv show with Vincent Chatigny Perso and norm and if we can travel safely I really want to go see your farm …it was a very interesting segment.
~ Brian Doucette, Quebec

The best cream in the world. Wish I could get it in Massachusetts!!
~ Anne L. Squire

I just love your yogurt and the way you run your entire place under organic certification!

~ Rich Skidoo, Quebec

I remember as a child, visiting your farm in its early days. Jack and Anne always made my brother,sister and I feel like family. We were mesmerized by the farm and jumped at any chance we could to visit. Being transplants from CT, we loved it there. Anne was the first person to introduce us to paper mache’ and Jack loved letting us feed the calves bottles. Those core memories have stuck with me. We absolutely love all your products but Maple yogurt and kefir are our favorites. I love that I personally have gotten to see what the farm was into what it is now. Incredible doesn’t seem like a good enough word!

~ Jennifer Copp, CT

This is a comment about Butterworks, and you and Jack from my book, The Little Shop That Could: A retailer’s love affair with community and food: “For a sense of why Big Business and the natural product industry and organics often don’t mix, it helps to visit Jack and Anne Lazor of Butterworks Farm who have been producing organic yogurt in Vermont since 1975. Their 45 milking cows are raised from birth and have names like Peaches and Moonlight. All of the food for the cows — and most of what the Lazor’s eat, too — comes from the farm, and Anne keeps their charges healthy with a mix of homeopathic medicines and nutritional supplements. Butterworks produces 9,000 quarts of yogurt a week, and no one can pressure them to make more.

When consumers buy organic in our shop, they are voting for the Butterworks ethic. They don’t quite trust organics being produced by Clorox or General Mills.”

~ Debra Stark

I visited your farm on a Sterling College field trip over 20 years ago. Jack was showing us the compost wind rows and said “stick your arm in!” so I excitedly did and then took a deep breath of the handful I pulled out. He looked at me and said “YOU are gonna be a farmer.”

We live in upstate NY, but grab some Butterworks maple yogurt every time we visit Vermont. I use one of your old yogurt containers to scoop dairy feed for my Jersey “Hazel”, our family milk cow. It reminds me of that (defining) moment, and that some of us are born for this.

~ Maggie Leasure, Naples NY