Nostalgia in a Bottle comes to Nelson and Richmond

Nostalgia in a Bottle comes to Nelson and Richmond.

This week, dairy farmer Julian Raine, will begin selling farm fresh milk at the Oakland’s farm gate, (adjacent to the carpark at the rear of the Saxton Field Sports Complex), offering Nelson and Richmond residents natural, wholesome milk direct from a dairy farm located within the Nelson City boundaries.

The Saxton/Raine family has owned and worked Oakland’s since 1842. So whilst supplying town milk is nothing new to the family, it will now be dispensed from state of the art Italian vending machines, leaving the farm in reusable glass bottles, rather than the entire milk production heading down the driveway in a milk tanker.

The Raine family recognised a growing group of consumers who wanted to source their food locally. Mr Raine who grew up drinking fresh Oakland’s milk, as did generations of his family before him says, “it has nothing added and nothing removed, it’s just pure, fresh milk as nature intended." The farm fresh whole milk is pasteurised to ensure it tastes as good as it looks, additionally, customers can be comfortable in the knowledge that there is no unnecessary transport miles to processing factories. Mr Raine continues; “Oakland’s milk is fully traceable, we can tell you what paddock our cows grazed on when the milk was produced.”

For many years the family farm invited groups of school children to tour the dairy, and Mr Raine hopes his new venture will begin a re-education programme of where milk comes from. To that end he is building a new glass-fronted viewing room where public groups will be invited to watch the cows being milked, he says, “for one hundred and fifty years our farm has been part of the community, as custodians of Oakland’s we see this venture as a natural progression in forging our relationship with local people.” To find out more about the history of the farm and the availability of Oakland's milk visit www.oaklandsmilk.co.nz.

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