Community outreach, ice cream production and selling directly to consumers with Lolly Lesher
Update: 2025-11-18
Description
Pennsylvania dairywoman Lolly Lesher from Way-Har Farms joins host Kimmi Devaney on this episode of the Progressive Dairy Podcast to discuss on-farm processing, selling directly to consumers through their farm market and other retail avenues, farm tours and community outreach.
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Here is a breakdown of the episode:
- [~1:00 ] About Way-Har Farms and Lesher’s family
- [~1:50 ] Differences between their old freestall barn and the new one they built in 2016
- [~3:30 ] Farm market
- [~4:50 ] On-farm processing
- [~5:40 ] How they develop new flavors
- [~7:00 ] Marketing
- [~9:30 ] Product distribution
- [~9:55 ] Ice cream trailer for events
- [~10:45 ] Employee recruitment differences between the dairy and the farm market/on-farm processing
- [~11:40 ] The part of her farm Lesher is most proud of
- [~14:05 ] Advice for other dairy producers interesting in trying on-farm processing
- [~20:00 ] Employee training
- [~20:40 ] About their farm’s open house in 2020
- [~25:30 ] School tours
- [27:00 ] Internships
- [~28:30 ] Helpful resources
- [~29:15 ] Their Airbnb
- [~30:45 ] Agritourism advice for other producers
- [~33:00 ] Rapid-fire questions
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