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1. Can I recycle your glass bottles or where should I return them?


2. What Pasteurization do you use?


3. What is Creamline Milk?


4. Do you bottle anything other than Whole Milk? How can I tell which milk I’m purchasing?


5. Do you sell Raw Milk?


6. Do you add Vitamin A or D to your milk?


7. Where can I find nutritional information for your milk?


8. Can I make cheese with your milk?


9. Do you have peanuts in your plant?


10. Do you have gluten-free ice cream?


11. You say that you do not use synthetic hormones; does that mean you use bioidentical hormones?


12. What kind of cows do you have?


13. Can I take a tour of your plant or farm?


14. Do you offer home delivery?


15. Do you offer online ordering? Can I order butter, cheese, ice cream or other products to be shipped to my house?


16. Where can I find Trickling Springs’ dairy products?

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Can I recycle your glass bottles or where should I return them?
   

   PLEASE, DO NOT throw away or recycle Trickling Springs Milk bottles! We want them returned to us. This is why you pay a $2 bottle deposit when you purchase the milk so that you bring the bottle back to the store you purchased the milk at or any store that sells our milk for a $2 refund. We take these bottles back, wash and reuse them.
   

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2. What Pasteurization do you use
   

   We use the HTST method of pasteurization, the milk is heated to 160° F – 165°F for 15 seconds and immediately cooled below 40°F. There are many benefits to this style of pasteurization; our goal is to bring you fresh milk that has been messed with as little as possible, safe but nutritious. Many of the pasteurization methods used today are used so the manufacturer can achieve a long shelf life, shipping it across the country. We sell regionally so we focus on the quality of taste and nutrients instead of shelf life. You can read more about our processing story on our production page.
   

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3. What is Creamline Milk?
   

   Trickling Springs’ Creamline milk is whole or 2% milk that has not been homogenized. This allows the milk fat (cream) to naturally separate to the top of bottle, to enjoy it just shake it back into the milk and pour. You can read more about this style of milk at these blog posts:What is Creamline Milk; Creamline Milk, part 2
   

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4. Do you bottle anything other than Whole Milk? How can I tell which milk I’m purchasing?
   

   Yes we do!
   We bottle Whole, 2% and Nonfat milk as well as flavored milks and cream. Here are the cap colors to help identify the milk you are purchasing; the type of milk is also printed on the glass milk bottle cap.

   • White = Whole Creamline (non-Homogenized) Milk
   • Red = Whole Homogenized Milk
   • Dark Blue = 2% Creamline Milk
   • Blue = 2% Homogenized Milk
   • Green = NonFat Milk
   • Clear = Half & Half
   • Cream/Tan = Heavy Cream
   • Gold = EggNog

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5. Do you sell Raw Milk?
   

   No I’m sorry we don’t. We support raw milk but it is illegal to take it across state lines so we chose to go with low-temp pasteurization milk so that more people would be able to enjoy this fresh milk outside of Pennsylvania. The pasteurization temperature of 160°F – 165°F allows the milk to retain more of the natural enzyme structure, proteins and nutrients that are found in raw milk.
   

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6. Do you add Vitamin A or D to your milk?
   

   We are required by Federal law to add Vitamin A & D to our Reduced Fat (2%) milk and Nonfat (Skim) milk. However our goal is to provide you with milk that has been as minimally processed as legally possible, so we use non-synthetic versions of these vitamins. Our whole milk has NO added vitamins or any other additives, the original version of milk, no additives, full fat, all milk!!
   

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7. Where can I find nutritional information for your milk?
   

   Go to this link: Nutritional information and click on the milk you want the information for.
   

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8. Can I make cheese with your milk?
   

   Yes, you should be able to. We have heard many success stories from people making cheese using our milk and would love to hear yours! If you make some cheese using our milk, take a picture of the cheese with our milk bottle in the background and email it with your story about making it (200 words or less) to tscorganicmilk@gmail.com and if we choose to feature it on our website we’ll send you a gift pack from Trickling Springs Creamery! And we’ll even pay for the shipping!!
   To give you some ideas to get started here are a few people that have made some cheese using our milk in the past.
   Mozzarella (made with a kit)
   Washington Post story
   Off the Vine Market story, no recipe
   Paneer
   Washington Green Grocer, recipe included
   Goat Cheese Chevre (using Trickling Springs distributed goat milk)
   Pure Homemaking 2011, recipe included
   

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9. Do you have peanuts in your plant?
   

   Thanks for asking, while we take every precaution to avoid cross-contamination, we use peanuts in various forms in our some of our ice creams. If you allergic to peanuts or any nuts then we must recommend you refrain from enjoying our ice cream.
   

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10. Do you have gluten-free ice cream?
    

    Our ice cream base is gluten-free, however not all of the ice cream flavors are gluten-free. Here are several flavors you can enjoy gluten-free.

    • Vanilla
    • Chocolate
    • Strawberry
    • Coffee

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11. You say that you do not use synthetic hormones; does that mean you use bioidentical hormones?
    

    No, we do not use any type of added hormones to boost growth or production, we’ve used the term “Synthetic Hormones” to include all added hormones & in an attempt to make it very plain to consumers what we are about. Obviously cunning marketers could use that statement to cover the use of other hormones but in reality if you read over what we do it should be clear, our goal is to bring products to consumers with minimal processing and minimal involvement.
    Cows naturally produce hormones and that is part of the process of creating milk so I can’t use the statement that we do not use “hormones” but I can assure you that we do not add hormones.
    Thanks for your interest and your desire to keep those that produce your food honest. Trust me we appreciate that.
    

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12. What kind of cows do you have?
    

    Our local farmers have a variety of breeds but we require them to be predominately heritage breeds rather than the newer breeds that are bred to produce quantity of milk rather than quality. See what each of our farms have and see pictures of the farms on each farmer’s page.
    

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13. Can I take a tour of your plant or farm?
    

    I’m sorry but due to liability concerns we are not allowed to give tours of our production plant. We do however have a large viewing window in our Creamery store where most mornings Monday through Thursday you can watch the production crew bottling your favorite milk! Several of our farmers love to have visitors, for details on visiting a farm that supplies us with milk visit our individual farm pages here or email me at tours@tricklingspringscreamery.com
    

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14. Do you offer home delivery?
    

    Read our blog post here: Trickling Springs Creamery home delivery
    And find out who will deliver Trickling Springs’ milk to your door here.
    

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15. Do you offer online ordering? Can I order butter, cheese, ice cream or other products to be shipped to my house?
    

    I’m sorry currently we are not set up to be able to process orders and ship our products around the country. Thanks for your interest in our products.
    

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16. Where can I find Trickling Springs’ dairy products?
    

    Look at our Retail store locator page for your local retailer that carries our products.
    If you have a local store that doesn’t carry our products and you would like to see us there, please let us know through our contact form and we’ll be happy to contact the store and see if they would carry our products!
    If you are a retail store that sells our products and can’t find yourself on our Store locator page please email us through our contact form and we’ll be happy to add you to our list.
    

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