'A bummer': Ogden raw milk store faces graffiti attack; owner touts oversight the locale faces

OGDEN — Trevor Rose isn’t one to get on a soapbox to tout raw milk, knowing public opinion varies widely on the subject.

“Do we think raw milk is for everybody and do we expect everybody to drink raw milk? No,” he said. Some of his friends opt for pasteurized milk, he said, “and that’s totally up to them.”

He and his family grew up drinking raw milk, however, and since 2014, they’ve sold it to the public — first out of a small shed on the grounds of their Morgan County dairy farm and since 2023 at a brick-and-mortar location in Morgan, the Milk Barn Creamery . Earlier this year, they opened a second Milk Barn Creamery location in Centerville, and a third outlet opened less than a month ago in Ogden.

Along the way, he’s debated the pros and cons of raw milk with others.

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