DUXBURY CREAMERY
ABOUT THE FARM
Duxbury Creamery is a goat dairy farm that milks its Nubians, Saanans, and Snubian crosses twice a day in its state-of-the-art dairy barn. In its new commercial cheesemaking room it makes a variety of cheese with its own goat milk under the Duxbury Creamery brand including mozzarella, ricotta, cream cheese, feta, queso fresco, paneer, yogurt, fromagina, and of course chevre. Duxbury Creamery’s chevre comes in various flavors and its specialty is fresh chevre in olive oil which brings out its rich smoothy creaminess.
Duxbury Creamery is located at the Historic O’Neil Farm in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The Historic O’Neil Farm is the last working dairy farm in Duxbury and has been in continuous agricultural use since the early 1712. The beautiful farm property is 145 acres which is made up of 70 acres of pasture and 75 acres of woodlands. Carl O’Neil still lives in the original 1713 homestead where he grew up and still tends his Guernsey cows.
Elaine Philbrick is the owner of Duxbury Creamery and a long-time Duxbury resident. She formerly operated The Goatscaping Company, renting out 64 goats for poison ivy and brush control, and sold goat cheese under the Colchester Creamery brand at the Colchester Farm CSA in Plympton.
Ashleigh Woolf is the Dairy Herd Manager. She has extensive experience breeding Nubian goats, winning 12 Champion titles and owning a Permanent Champion. She has raised dairy goats for 6 years and has shown her goats at over a dozen shows a year for the past 4 years. She has mentored multiple 4H youth and currently owns 31 does with 26 kids born this year.
Meg Riley is the Agricultural Educator and Community Outreach Coordinator. Meg is the premier agricultural educator on the South Shore, having worked in that role at the Weir River Farm in Hingham, the Soule Homestead Education Center in Middleboro, and currently for the Plymouth County Extension. She is on the Planning Committee for Southeastern Mass Farm Conference, is certified by MDAR as an agricultural mental health peer, and is currently on a two-year Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Fellowship through USDA. In addition to starting a successful licensed farm camp program for over 100 families, she has managed a herd of 30 grass-fed belted Galloway cows, 20 Tamworth pigs, 2 breeding Berkshire cows, and 20 Icelandic sheep.
