Raw Milk Cow-shares Available from Hicks Dairy - A Rare Chance

I picked up our raw milk today.  Kevin was right on time and very pleasant. 

I asked him about his shareholder retention and he told me that the biggest problem is that Jenny wrote numerous emails to all shareholders that deliveries were cancelled - which was not true.

She also took down all the Hicks Dairy webpages.  The website is still there - minus information.  That will get fixed.

Since Jenny took all share-holder contracts and contact information, his email and facebook accounts there is no way for Kevin to reach out to share-holders and customers.  You need to contact him.

His new facebook page is at :  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003915199510

Meanwhile, Kevin has taken quite a hit and I suppose he will have to dispose of his surplus milk at a loss.

At the same time, anyone who has been wanting a cow-share and finding the usual year or more waiting lists has a perfect opportunity to get one now with Kevin.

He delivers raw pastured milk and other dairy,  and pastured - free range meats and eggs to several locations in the Metro Detroit area.  We pick ours up in Royal Oak.

Anyway, if you want raw dairy, and pastured meat and eggs, now is a good time to get hooked up.

By the way, anyone can order eggs and meat.  You only need a cow-share for the raw dairy.

The only other place we could find pastured, free range meat was a 60 mile round trip and we had to order a month in advance, so ordering from Kevin is quite a convenience.

If you want to take advantage of this opportunity, email him and he will get back to you.

I was surprised at how quickly he responded to my call as he is running an old fashioned dairy and making deliveries.

His email is:

hicksdairyfarm63@yahoo.com

You usually have to order about a half week ahead of the scheduled delivery.

Thanks to Kita for posting his delivery schedule in a comment to this post.  Click view comments.

Hicks Dairy - North Branch Michigan - June 2012 UPDATE

June 12 Update:  It looks like Jenny's relationship revenge campaign to sabotage Kevin's business worked at getting a few shareholders to ditch out on their contracts, even though in her barrage of emails after quitting him with no notice, she maintained that he was an honest, hardworking, dependable and caring dairy farmer.

So a few people seem to have jumped ship to go with the web-person and delivery girl instead of keeping their contract with the guy who was actually providing them with a quality product and caring for their cows.

Kevin is taking excellent care of the shareholders who stayed with him and showing his dedication to those who believed in him and appreciated the quality of his services.  It's actually kind of nice to be handed your milk from the guy who personally did the milking this morning.

Well, GOOD NEWS for all the people who have been on one of the many year long (or more) waiting lists to purchase a cow share in SE Michigan.  Kevin has a few cow shares for sale.

This is one of those "get it while it lasts" kind of things as the methods of producing raw, pastured dairy make it impossible to "just get more cows" when your supply has matched the demand.  Each cow needs an acre of pasture and personal care that "factory" dairy cows don't get.
Take a look here:  http://www.docloco.com/2012/06/raw-milk-cow-shares-available-from.html

And in addition to having your cow cared for and milked, to also have your milk delivered is a pretty nice deal as opposed to making a 4 hour round trip to the farm every week.

Want to read about some of the health benefits of raw, organic, pastured milk?  Click Here.

NEW! June 15 update from Kevin Hicks. 
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We have appreciated the dedication of Jenny Samuelson who has delivered the products for  Kevin Hicks at Hicks Dairy  hicksorganicfood.com in North Branch, Michigan.

But recently Jenny let her personal relationship with her (now ex) boyfriend Kevin sabotage all of the Dairy's organic food purchasers and cow-share holders by absconding with all his contracts and client information.

The cow share contracts are between the holder and Kevin.  Sadly Jenny handled this very poorly.

She has my sympathy but I cannot support her actions.

Now she wants to set up an alternate system for obtaining Raw Milk that has dubious legality and is also unfair to Kevin as she has stolen all his contacts and client paperwork, taken down his webpages and taken control of his email.

Jenny, in repeated emails contends that Kevin Hicks is a good, honest, reliable, dedicated and dependable farmer - the only problem being they don't personally get along so well anymore.

Kevin has indicated that he intends to maintain deliveries without interruption and that he is extending ordering time to accommodate the "problems".

Jenny has said she will be returning his contracts to him by this coming Monday.
She is still sending emails as Hicks Dairy - a blatant misrepresentation.
Jenny made sure that Kevin cannot even make contact with his clients.
So if you have a contract, you need to contact him.

I have serious doubts that her new coop is legitimate or legal.  I recommend share holders stay with Kevin instead of joining Jenny in her rash, retributive attempt to destroy Kevin's business over a failed romantic relationship, not a business issue.

You can contact Kevin directly.

His phone number is 810-523-3771

Orders will still be taken today (Saturday, June 2nd) and tomorrow for this coming week,  but must be sent to his NEW email address:
hicksdairyfarm63@yahoo.com

I'm sad that they have had relationship problems, but business is business and your contract is with Kevin Hicks and Hicks Dairy.