The Milk Barn

This is the Milk Barn that will form the centerpiece to the farm in the years to come. As you can see it needs renovating badly, but everything is there that we need.

Eventually it will house the milking room, the cheese room, a bathroom, and an aging/storage room. Because it has to comply with strict state regulations for us to receive Grade A certification, we need to do more than just 'fix it up'. There is a septic system which is being evaluated next week and then we are getting an industrial hygienist in to determine exactly what will need to be addressed, before we get the Oregon Department of Agriculture in to assess our plans.

First item on the list of things to be done though is to re-roof. That's a certainty and we are getting quotes on that drawn up at the moment. Then we could be faced with reinstalling a new septic system, relaying the concrete floor according to the PMO (Pasteurization and Milk Ordinance) code, and block wall resealing. The actual internal timber framing and construction seems to be the easy part (maybe it's because that's the part we can do ourselves).

So, stay tuned for updates or follow the project on the Milk Barn Renovation links below.