Our farm
Natural Springs is a family dairy on eighteen acres in Hastings, Florida, just west of St. Augustine. We milk Holsteins and Jerseys, raise chickens, turkeys and pigs on pasture, and make cheese, yogurt and butter in our own creamery.
Our animals live on grass with supplemental grain. We do not use vaccines, hormones, antibiotics or pesticides — not on the animals, and not on the land they graze.
What we cannot grow or make ourselves, we buy from other Florida farms and makers we know, and sell alongside our own in the farm market.
We are not certified organic
Organic certification is a formal USDA program, and we have not gone through it. We farm the way described above because we think it is right, not because a certificate requires it. If that distinction matters to you, please ask us anything — we would rather answer than have you assume.
About our raw dairy
Florida law permits the sale of raw milk products as animal feed, so that is how our raw milk, cream, butter and yogurt are labelled and sold.