Necessity is the mother of invention, and Shann Jones is a perfect example. She used goats’ milk and kefir to develop her healing probiotic drinks, soaps and lotions when her family suffered from ...

Every morning John Zimmerman of Kirchenberg Farm rises early to make goat cheese and tend the flock on his 36-acre spread in Richmond Township. He and his wife, Grace, own the farm, where they sell ...

Redwood Hill Farm is the nation’s leading goat milk yogurt and kefir producer. Editor’s note: As part of a series on the Sonoma County dairy community, here we profile Redwood Hill Farm in Sebastopol, ...

Kefir is a tangy, probiotic-rich drink made by fermenting cow’s or goat’s milk or water with a culture starter called kefir grains — small clusters of bacteria and yeast that resemble tiny cauliflower ...

John Sheehan, who oversees dairy at the F.D.A., once famously likened drinking raw milk to “playing Russian roulette with your health.” (I cited that in my piece on raw milk in last week’s issue of ...