It’s not what you think … I promise!!!!! I have the pictures to prove it.
I know this seems a little weird … having a couple of bottles of milk pictured on the blog … what does milk have to do with Willow Park????? But I promise you, this is no ordinary milk … this is Willow Park milk.
Let me tell you the story … Willow Park has had a couple of dairy cows for a few years and until just last week, all the milk was being turned into sour milk and then the curds where collected to make a side dish for the mealie meal. This side dish was produced for the girls’ who live at Samkele, which is a short term orphanage for abused girls, that is run at Willow Park. Unfortunately, the product used to help stimulate the cow to produce milk is getting REALLY REALLY expensive and YFC were finding it hard to continue to fund this milking project … until the other week.
Now, people who know me, know that I have a little thing for excel spreadsheets and after creating a few worksheets and looking at the stats derived from some pretty complex formula and algorithms we were able to work out that it would be cheaper and more economical to start to sell the milk. So that is what we are now doing … this “milk project” is now a self funding project and it creates enough revenue to purchase it’s own milk stimulant, cover the veterinary bills as well as purchase kapenta (really small and really smelly dried fish), which is used instead of the curds as a side dish for the girls mealie meal.
Who would have ever thought that milk could be soooooooo exciting!!!!!!!!!
I know this seems a little weird … having a couple of bottles of milk pictured on the blog … what does milk have to do with Willow Park????? But I promise you, this is no ordinary milk … this is Willow Park milk.
Let me tell you the story … Willow Park has had a couple of dairy cows for a few years and until just last week, all the milk was being turned into sour milk and then the curds where collected to make a side dish for the mealie meal. This side dish was produced for the girls’ who live at Samkele, which is a short term orphanage for abused girls, that is run at Willow Park. Unfortunately, the product used to help stimulate the cow to produce milk is getting REALLY REALLY expensive and YFC were finding it hard to continue to fund this milking project … until the other week.
Now, people who know me, know that I have a little thing for excel spreadsheets and after creating a few worksheets and looking at the stats derived from some pretty complex formula and algorithms we were able to work out that it would be cheaper and more economical to start to sell the milk. So that is what we are now doing … this “milk project” is now a self funding project and it creates enough revenue to purchase it’s own milk stimulant, cover the veterinary bills as well as purchase kapenta (really small and really smelly dried fish), which is used instead of the curds as a side dish for the girls mealie meal.
Who would have ever thought that milk could be soooooooo exciting!!!!!!!!!
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It’s not what you think … I promise!!!!! I have the pictures to prove it.
When we read this line we wre getting ready to see a picture of yourself MILKING !!!!
Teresa & Graeme
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