About

About the Carlberg Farm and Family

Hello from the rolling hills and valleys of Western New York! Our landscape shapes the communities we live in around here, and you can find many similarities in expression and culture as you would find in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the mid-West. In fact, you might as well call us Pennsylvania where we call home. It's the furthest southwest corner of New York, southwest of Niagara Falls and Buffalo, NY.

Here we have a family farm; a century farm and legacy that we hope to pass down to any of our three children. On our farm we care for 120 milking cows, another 90-100 young dairy cattle, and some miscellaneous livestock like sheep, chickens, pigs, and goats. We raise a large produce garden and started selling produce in 2018. Our farm primarily ships fluid Grade A milk. The dairy industry is challenging, not very financially rewarding, but part of our life's blood for both Eric and I. We hope to navigate the difficult waters to be able to pass down this legacy to our children.

In this blog, I'd like to talk about family farms and the accompanying lifestyle that we so enjoy: gardening, preserving, renovating farmhouses, and raising and marketing the food we grow and raise on our farm: milk, meat, vegetables, and fruit jams & jellies. I'd like to think that this is of interest to people who are not able to live the rural life, or who live rurally but have lost their connection to family farms.