1. Name of farm: Woodbridge Dairy Farm LLC
2. Farmer’s/Farm Family name: John and Karin Uebbing
3. Street address: 1050 Woodbridge St. SW
4. City: Byron Center
5. State (2-letter abbreviation): MI
6. Zip: 49315
7. Phone number: (616)896-7836
8. Email: info@woodbridgedairyfarm.com
9. Website: https://woodbridgedairyfarm.
Type of Farm/Farm Practices
10. Are you Certified Organic? No
11. Are you Certified Biodynamic? No
12. If you are not Certified Organic, do you use organic production methods? Yes
13. Do you use synthetic fertilizers? No
14. Do you use any of the following: nonorganic pesticides, herbicides, parasiticides, or fungicides? No
Animal Husbandry
15. Do you keep livestock? Yes
16. What animals do you keep?
Chickens (list breeds): Red Rangers (meat), Americanas, and a mix of barn yard breeding (layers)
Ducks (list breeds): Gold stars crossed with wild malards, which means whatever God decided to create.
Turkeys (list breeds):
Other Poultry (list type and breeds):
Cows (list breeds): Dairy Breeds (all DNA TESTED as A2/A2): Jersey, Guermsey, Milking Shorthorn, Ayrshire, Brown Swiss. Most aren’t pure bred. The ladies of the barn are cross bred to be health and efficient on pasture.
Beef Breeds (Meat): Dutch belted Galloway, Shorthorn, Park. They are cross bred to be health and efficient on pasture.
Goats (list breeds):
Pigs (list breeds): English large black and old spot (meat and lard)
Sheep (list breeds):
Other Animals (list type and breeds):
17. Do you use antibiotics? Yes
18. Do you use antibiotics? Yes
19. Are the animals pasture-fed? Yes
20. How much and for how long: As soon as they can go out on pastue and for as long as they can be. We winter feed on pasture as well.
21. Do you practice managed grazing? Yes
22. Do you apply compost or compost tea? Yes
23. Do you apply other soil amendments? Yes
24. Do you use supplemental feed?
For poultry (list type): We grow all our own grain feed. We grind all our own grain feed. Grain types will vary year by year depending what we grow. 2025 harvest year was corn, barley, oats and field peas. We purchase minerals like, kelp, oyster shells and salt from a local feed mill. They are poultry tractor grazed during the warm season.
For cows, sheep, and/or goats (list type): Dairy (ladies of the barn) Cows: receive grain at milking time. This is our grain with minerals. It’s like a prenatal vitimin mix for them. See above for the 2025 grain harvest. They are on pastures during the warm season. They have always have access to fresh hay (also grown and harvested by us).
Beef Cattle: Our hay and pasture. During the winter they get a small amount of grain with minerals in it to keep them healthy. They are feed on pasture all year round.
All our feed is organically grown by us. We know exactly what every animal is getting from the soil up.
For pigs (list type): Pigs have pasture, hay, grain with minerals and milk. They basically get cereal every day.
Raw Milk
25. Do you supply raw milk? Yes
26. Do you keep your barn and milk room clean? Yes
27. Do you keep the cows clean/teats washed? Yes
28. Do you thoroughly wash your milking equipment after every milking? Yes
29. Are cows with mastitis or other health problems excluded from milking? Yes
30. Are cows tested for disease? Yes
Which tests, and how often: Johnes – 1/yr (we are johnes free)
TB testing – 3/yr
BVD – as needed
Brucellosis – as needed
leukosis- as needed
31. Is the milk routinely tested for pathogens, coliform count? Yes
Which tests, and how often: Salmonella, Listra, Ecoli 0157H7, Campilobactor, plate counts, Somatic Cell Count – 1/mo
32. Is the farm water routinely tested? Yes
33. Are milk and milk products kept well chilled? Yes
34. Other/Explain (list any other routine practices, or explain any of your answers above? We use antibiotics only as a last resort to help an animal if sick. We do not feed antibiotics to our animals.
We only vaccinate for pink eye with young cattle. This is a dead virus type of vaccine. NO we do not use any mRNA type of vaccines.
Butchering Practices
35. Do you sell milk? Yes
36. Meat butchered at a USDA-certified or state-certified abattoir? Yes
37. Meat butchered on the farm? No
38. Describe or explain any butchering practices:
Farm Products
39. Please check off the products you sell and list current prices
Raw whole milk: We offer a herd share for access to Fresh Unprocessed Whole Milk.
Raw butter: We teach our owner how to make raw butter.
Raw cream: Haven’t taught this but it would be fun too.
Raw ice cream: Haven’t taught this but it would be fun too.
Raw sour cream: We teach this too.
Raw yogurt: We teach this too.
Raw kefir: We teach this too.
Raw cottage cheese: We teach this too.
Whey: This is a by product that comes from teaching cheese.
Cheese (list types): We have taught, Camebert, Havarti, Feta, Cheddar, Gouda to name a few.
Other dairy (list):
Beef/veal: We offer Monthly Meat Shares. It’s all the cuts.
All seasoned grinds are seasoned with USDA ORGANIC seasoning. You can actually read the label.
Pork: We offer Monthly Meat Shares, It’s all the cuts.
All seasoned grinds are seasoned with USDA ORGANIC seasoning. You can actually read the label.
Goat/kid:
Mutton/lamb:
Other meat:
Chicken: We raise a small number of chickens for meat. Deposits are required to hold prior butchering. Final invoice is price per pound of finished chicken minus the deposit.
Duck:
Turkey:
Other poultry:
Eggs (list type, chicken, duck, etc) : Chickens – Americanas, and a mix of barn yard breeding
Honey:
Produce (list typical offerings):
Prepared foods (list typical offerings): Jams and other seasonal canned goods.
We teach canning classes in weck jars.
Other:
Additional Information
40. Do you only sell animals that are raised on your farm at the address listed?
Yes
40a. Details:
Everything is born and raised here with the exception of meat chicks that are purchased at a local hatchery and then raised here.
41. Are the animals born on your farm at the address listed? Yes
41a. Details:
Everything is born and raised here with the exception of meat chicks that are purchased at a local hatchery and then raised here.
42. Do you ever purchase animals from auctions or from your processor or do you ever buy parts from your processor (whole pork bellies…)? No
42a. Details:
43. Do you personally attend to your animals at least once a day or do you hire help or farmers to do that for you? Personally Attend
43a. Details:
We milk cows twice a day and maintain all animals at least twice a day.
44. Do you purchase pre-mixed feed from an elevator or do you grind your own? Grind Own
44a. Details:
We only purchase minerals from the elevator so that we can grind and make our own feed. All grain is grown by us.
45. Where can customers find you? (check all that apply):
On Farm
45a. Details:
The Growshery Haus is open to the public Fridays from 4pm to 7pm and Saturdays from 10am to 1pm. Remember to check our social media and website for closures.
Growshery Haus address:
1050 Woodbridge St. SW Byron Center MI 49315
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