Little Brown Cow

09/05/2026

Poet Laureate is here to announce a plethora of local bounty for the weekend!

Everyone who likes this post will be entered to WIN their choice of the below!

*$2 LOCAL RASPBERRY DOOR CRASHER
*Niagara Green and Blue Grapes
*$20/flat Strawberries
* Butternut, Acorn, Delicata, Pie Pumpkins, Hubbard, Acorn and more...
*Local Cantaloupe
*Niagara Peaches
*Niagara Plums
*Ontario Pears
*local Apples (several varieties now in season)
*$5 Local Seedless Watermelon
*Giant Red and Yellow Onions
*Field Tomatoes by the half Bushel
*Local New Potatoes
*Enourmous $3 Cabbage
*Fresh Local Cauliflower
*Zuchini Baskets
*Local Jalepenos, Bell, Shepherd Peppers
*Local Green and Yellow Beans
*Local Garlic
*Local Cucumbers
*Local Sweet Corn, of course!
*Some crazy clearance deals, including $6 Coffee Pods that many have loved!!!

09/03/2026

Fully OPEN today and fully powered!!

The marketing arm of Little Brown Cow would accept nothing less than a generator rental in our colours, obviously!

This is where farm to table business gets really challenging... we need a generator for the farm, cheese plant and store.... aaaaaand the water comes from a fourth source!

Good luck to all struggling with power. We are still out but managing!

08/29/2026

08/28/2026

POV: Your kid is unpacking their instant noodles when Ali waltzes into university with this stack!

Don’t let it happen!! Our meals are made for our families but we save some for you and your family!

08/27/2026

WIN a wedge of Kryptonite by voting Niagara Blue (wow reaction) or Niagara Green Grapes (love reaction).

If a European Vacation isn't in the cards, these, a wedge of Kryptonite and your favourite Spritzer might be the next best thing.

They're not in season long! Hurry in!

08/26/2026

Do you know what the ultimate treat is for a dairy cow?

Nothing.

Cows aren't built for treats. A dairy cow needs to consume an enormous amount of feed every day, and she spends a good chunk of her waking hours eating, ruminating, eating some more.

Slowly. Contentedly. Steadily.

It's not like feeding a dog who is convinced he hasn't been fed in three weeks, even though breakfast was 13 minutes ago.

But then sweet corn season arrives.

Thank you to everyone who leaves their husks for the cows — and a special thank you to the incredibly dedicated people who freeze big lots at home and bring us back the husks and bare cobs!

Corn silk? According to the Little Brown Cows, the finest cuisine this world has to offer.

There's definitely some feed value in a "watermelon bin" of sweet corn husks daily.

But let's be honest.

Most of the value is in the joy watching a bunch of normally dignified cows lose their minds over what would have went in the compost.

08/25/2026

This is Karma.

She was born in 2013. Frozen was in theaters and IPhone 5 was cutting edge.

No one respects their elders quite like dairy farmers.

08/21/2026

The DAIRY CARTEL controls your milk!!!

That sounds pretty nefarious, doesn't it?

But who exactly is this evil cartel?

Dairy farmers. About 3,100 Ontario farm families. That's it. Those are the shady characters.

And there's a pretty good reason they organized.

Fresh milk leaves a dairy farm every 48 hours. You can't park it in a shed for six months waiting for a better price. You can't put it on Kijiji. And the cows are making more tomorrow whether the market needs it or not.

Now, imagine a little farmer with a tank full of highly perishable milk, negotiating with a giant corporate buyer.

"We'll give you $20."

"But it cost $30 to make."

"Okay. Keep it."

Well... s**t.

A handful of enormous purchasers could habour an extraordinary amount of power over thousands of individual farms.

So beginning in 1965, Ontario dairy farmers organized under what became supply management. Instead of 3,100 little farms individually begging processors to buy tomorrow's milk, farmers collectively market it through Dairy Farmers of Ontario.

Basically, dairy farmers formed one giant union and took the bargaining power back.

Is it a perfect system? Of course not. Find 3,100 farmers who agree unanimously about anything and we'll go vegan for a week.

But dairy farmers overwhelmingly support supply management because it gives family farms something remarkably rare in agriculture: the ability to bargain collectively with companies much, much bigger than they are.

So where do you hear words like "cartel"?

Mostly from the people on the other side of the bargaining table.

Large milk processors and other major purchasers have plenty of reason to dislike supply management. Organized farmers are considerably harder to bargain down than desperate individual ones.

So processors and their allies lobby against the system — and "cartel" makes a much better headline than "3,100 farmers bargaining together."

So yes, Virginia: the DAIRY CARTEL controls your milk.

Fortunately, cartel headquarters are mostly barns, the uniforms are rubber boots, and the morning meetings start at 4 am.

08/20/2026

Like this post to be entered to WIN a pack of Hagersville Bakery Cheese Sticks!

Public Service Announcement:

A pack of Hagersville Bakery Cheese Sticks, carefully cut in half covers a sheet pan perfectly.

Spread a sauce on top (we did Pizza Sauce), your toppings (we did a pound of Ground Beef) and your Cheese (we suggest Little Brown Cow "New Cheese") and pop it in the Oven for 10 min @ 400F.

You'll either get 6 kid sized Submarine Sandwiches when you fold them in half again or a really quick, pat yourself on the back Pizza!

It's not glamorous, but sharing for when quick, tasty and kid approved are your boxes to check!