Fridge Benefits: Local, Grass-Fed Milk in an Empty Field

If you found a lone refrigerator advertising fresh milk in an otherwise vacant field in the Catskills, what would you do?

We’d advise pooling all the money you’ve got in your car, popping it in the cash box affixed to a nearby tree, and filling your trunk with all the creamline cow’s milk, cheese, butter, and goat milk you can afford.

Looking for local grass-fed milk in the Catskills? End of the Lane Farm in Cornwallville has you covered with their self-serve milk fridge.

For city folks like us, there’s something wonderfully absurd — yet also deeply legit — about getting your dairy from a self-serve fridge sitting on a vacant hill. Archer pulled opened the door, gasped, and said, “It’s a whole store!”

Local Catskills milk, butter, and cheese are offered on the honor system at End of the Lane Farm. Bring exact change, or a leave a little extra for the farmers.

End of the Lane Farm in Cornwallville, a sleepy hamlet in the town of Durham in Greene County, produces grade-A, pasteurized, non-homogenized, whole creamline milk from 100% grass-fed cows. In a single word? Delicious.

Their self-serve fridge is also stocked with products from Westmeadow Farm in Johnstown, NY — like salted, unsalted, and flavored butters, goat milk, chevre, and their mild, cheddar-like (and highly recommended!) Goat-astic Cheese.

We didn’t get the meet the dairy farmers (seriously, this was just a lone fridge in a field — not a human in sight), but we heard from Chrissy at See and Be that the owner is super nice, so maybe we’ll talk him into giving us a farm tour this summer.

Grassy, fresh, creamy goat milk from Westmeadow Farm is available at the self-serve fridge in Cornwallville.

End of the Lane Farm’s self-serve fridge is located at 601 Sutton Road in Cornwallville, NY. Read more about owner Jay Sharkey and his End of the Lane Farm on Porcupine Soup.