STEW LEONARD’S DAIRY DEPARTMENT FACT SHEET

"THE WORLD’S LARGEST DAIRY STORE" – Ripley’s Believe it or Not!
 
  • The Leonard family has been in the dairy business for three generations, since the early 1920s.
  • Stew Leonard's has the largest in-store dairy plant in the country, packaging 90 half-gallon cartons per minute and over 10 million half-gallon cartons per year.
  • Milk arrives fresh daily straight from our 2,000-acre dairy farm in Ellington, Connecticut. We then pasteurize, homogenize and package our milk every day in our Norwalk dairy plant, located right in the heart of our store. Customers can literally buy milk that has gone from farm to shelf in as little as six hours.
   
  • Our cows are fed on all-natural diet of corn, hay and grains and is free of any artificial growth hormones (including rBST).
  • To produce that milk, 1,000 cows are milked three times a day, seven days a week, providing an average of 6,500 half gallons of milk per cow per year.
  • Stew Leonard’s Oakridge Farm, which is run by the Bahler family, received the Dairy Farm of Distinction Award from the CT Department of Agriculture in June 2005 and the Dairy Farmer of the Year award by the New England Green Pastures Committee in September 2005. Both awards recognize outstanding dairy farmers for keeping well-maintained farms and producing high quality milk.
"YOU’D HAVE TO OWN A COW TO GET FRESHER MILK"—Stew Leonard
Regular
   VARIETIES AND PRICES
  • Whole Milk & 2% Milk: $1.69
  • 1% Milk & Skim Milk: $1.59
Flavored
  • Low Fat Chocolate Milk: Popular among the kids! $1.69
  • Reduced fat Strawberry Milk $1.99
  • Dulce de Leche: Double-Rich chocolate milk with caramel. $2.49
Specialty
  • Lactose Free 100: 100% lactose reduced nonfat milk. $2.29
Packaging
  • Stew Leonard’s milk is only sold in half-gallon cartons
  • Stew Leonard’s milk cartons were the first dairy cartons on the east coast to use resalable caps on the spout.