February Boarding Fees Off-farm Saturday Pickup Points
Order fees per share owned
NEW Owners: if you have placed your order for new shares, Boarding fees will be added to your order equal to the number of shares you purchased.
See important notice below about off-farm pickups.
RENEWALS: Place your order for the number of shares you own currently own. If you own two shares, select (2) for your quantity of boarding fees.
In the same way you would pay a service fee to a mutual fund manager, you are paying The Keim family a monthly fee to maintain and care for your share of the herd.
You are entitled to receive a percentage of the herd's milk production equal to your ownership shares. One share is entitled to receive 1/2 Gallon per week.
Fees must be paid monthly in ADVANCE to pickup milk.
Email Communications: we use email as official communications regarding your herd share ownership. We send ZERO marketing messages. Add info@ohiorawmilk.com to your list of trusted senders.
Off-Farm Pickup Notice Effective February 1, 2025
This notice applies to all milk pickups "Off-farm": Fairlawn, Brunswick, Parma, Lakewood, Cleveland Heights, Northfield, Cuyahoga Falls and Kent.
Background: ZOE Farms provides it's labor, refrigeration, transportation, buildings and other infrastructure to the Keim Family Herd share free of charge. ZOE Farms receives no money from the herd share for these services.
It is no longer financially sustainable for ZOE Farms to deliver ONLY MILK to off-farm pickup points. Rather than charge a delivery fee, we are asking herd share owners to periodically purchase food as well. With a small, monthly food budget allocation from each herd share owner, milk deliveries can continue.
Grass-fed Beef, pasture-raised free-range chicken, heritage pork, eggs and more are already being delivered each week to the same off-farm pickup points.Orders are to be placed at zoefarms.com
By allocating a portion of your food dollars, you providing the financial support necessary to keep milk deliveries sustainable for these off-farm pickup points.
If you have no plans of placing food orders in the future, it probably best to not continue with processing your new herd share.