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February 14, 2008 - It’s part of the appeal of Crescent Ridge Dairy’s milk and other dairy products have with its customers—as well as the great taste—and it’s a major reason why the Dairy sells other food products produced by local vendors.
“There are many reasons why buying and selling foods from local vendors benefits Crescent Ridge Dairy and Massachusetts vendors as a whole. The most obvious being it helps the local economy,” said Mark Parrish, president and third generation of the Parrish family to run Crescent Ridge Dairy. “Still, the food has to taste good for us to want to carry it.”
Crescent Ridge Dairy’s roster of non-dairy products from Massachusetts companies includes:
● Grandma's coffee cakes (Hyde Park)
● Country Hen Organic Eggs (Hubbardston)
● New England Coffee (Malden)
● The Ever So Humble pie company (Walpole)
● Willow Tree Farms (Attleboro)
● Ray's Bagels (Sharon)
● Polar Seltzer (Worcester)
● Captain Mardens Seafood (Wellesley)
● Capone Foods (Somerville)
● Kayem Hot Dogs (Chelsea)
● Gold Medal Bakery (Fall River)
● Oakdale Farms (Brockton)
● Frazier Fish Company (Boston)
● Peggie Lawton Cookies (East Walpole)
● Al Fresco Sausage (Chelsea)
● Alfredo's Pasta (Quincy)
● Carlson's Orchards (Harvard)
Crescent Ridge Dairy’s milk is also produced locally. While the milk originates from the cows of Howrigan Family Farm and the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery in Vermont, all milk is homogenized, pasteurized and bottled at Crescent Ridge Dairy plant in Sharon, Massachusetts.
“Besides helping the local economy, buying local means food doesn’t travel as far. That can reduce transportation costs and, more importantly, the collective effect the emissions from the trucks, trains, boats and planes that transport products from out-of-state companies,” said Parrish.
Crescent Ridge Dairy provides home delivery of all natural, rBST hormone-free whole, 1%, 2% and non-fat milk and more than 150 other top quality food items to more than 100 communities in the Boston area. All milk is pasteurized, homogenized and bottled in environmentally friendly glass bottles.
Crescent Ridge Dairy also sells its world-famous ice creams—named one of the 10 best ice creams in the world by The National Geographic—at its “dairy bars” in Sharon, Massachusetts at 355 Bay Road and 176 South Franklin Street (Route 37) in Holbrook, Massachusetts and via home delivery. Dairy bars are open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Holbrook dairy bar is currently closed but will reopen on April 15.
Crescent Ridge Dairy has been named a “Dairy of Distinction” by the Massachusetts Farm Bureau and was the recipient of the 2007 Massachusetts Family Business award given by the Northeastern University Center for Family Business and the Family Firm Institute’s New England Chapter.
For more information, contact 800-660-2740 or visit the website at www.crescentridge.com.
Quality, Convenience & Extreme Customer Service
Serving more than 100 communities throughout the Boston area, Crescent Ridge Dairy provides the convenience, quality and customer care demanded in today’s busy lifestyles. In addition to their home delivery service of milk and 150 food items, Crescent Ridge’s “Dairy Bars” in Sharon and Holbrook, Massachusetts. Located at 355 Bay Road in Sharon and 176 South Franklin Street in Holbrook, the Sharon dairy bar is open year round, seven days a week, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; the Holbrook dairy bar will reopen on April 15, 2008. For more information, contact 800-660-2740 or visit the website at www.crescentridge.com.
