Wisconsin takes dairy seriously. June is National Dairy Month, and the Wisconsin Dairy Farmers trade group celebrates it by coordinating farm breakfasts in counties across the state. This year, we traveled to the Chapin family farm in Reedstown for the Vernon County Dairy Breakfast.
We opted to park at the farm rather than take the shuttle bus from Reedstown Park. There was plenty of room at 8AM, and a short line to buy our breakfast tickets. The cost was a steal in this current period of inflation - $6 for the standard breakfast, and $10 for the steak breakfast. Maggie opted for the standard breakfast, while I selected the steak breakfast. We has plenty of food - the standard breakfast included pancakes, scrambled eggs with ham and cheese, sausage links, cheese curds, cottage cheese, milk/water/coffee, and glazed donuts; the steak breakfast included all of the above plus a small steak.
We took seats in the large barn and watched the crowd as we ate. As a bonus, there were door prizes, won if you had a stamp of a cow on the bottom of your plate. Maggie won, and picked a 40 pound bag of chicken feed as a prize.
After breakfast we walked around the farm looking at the animals. Maggie was drawn to the horses, where a little girl told us their names and ages, and let Maggie pet them. We marveled at the views from the ridge-top farm and the Amish-owned farms in the distance, and checked out the cows in the barns. A two-man band played covers of county songs from the farmhouse porch. As a last homage to dairy, Culver's provided free custard sundaes. A sweet way to finish a sweet morning on a farm for Dairy Month.
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