"This was formerly the Smith's Dairy," says Bill Stoltzfus of the building he bought in 2007, just a block south of Buhl's town square. "The place had been in the Smith family for 70-some years."
This modest cream-colored bottling plant and the soft-spoken man who now runs it hardly look like players in a new, national agricultural movement. But they are.
Stoltzfus, a lifelong dairyman, moved to Idaho in 1992 from Pennsylvania's once pastoral dairy country. He still carries a hint of the rural East in his voice and a lasting love of the small dairy farms that dot his home state.
"We do a non-homogenized whole milk, a 2 percent and a low-fat milk," Stoltzfus says as he shows me around the pleasantly old-fashioned retail space that fronts his bottling plant. Behind the counter are 24 flavors of homemade ice cream. "We also are planning on trying to get into some cottage cheese and possibly some yogurt and do our own artisan cheese."
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