The days of the milkman are not over!
Last night was our first doorstep milk delivery from Boise Milk. The S.O. and I waited up for the truck (they deliver between midnight and 8:00 am). We stalked the truck through our neighborhood -- it made two painstaking stops on our street before our house. I ran out the door to meet the delivery guy before he could place our order into our cooler. The S.O. immediately broke open a half-gallon of skim -- luscious and buttery, with a clovery sweetness, this was unlike any other milk I've had.
Hyper-local sourcing lets the freshness and quality of the product shine through -- all milk is delivered within 12 hours of coming out of the cow and is never exposed to sunlight until customers open their coolers in the morning. Eggs come from a small Kuna farm. Zeppole and Gaston's baked goods are delivered the night they're born in the oven. Idaho meats, seasonal produce, and Boise Milk-branded dairy products (their salted butter is beautiful) are also available.
Prices are fair. Milk is about twice what you'd pay in a typical grocery store (plus the bottle deposit for glass bottles), but I have no qualms about the additional cost, given the quality. All other products seem on par with grocery store prices.
Want to get on their delivery schedule? Enroll on their web site (www.boisemilk.com), and they'll notify you once they've created your profile and assigned your delivery day (they say this can take up to 24 hours, but they did it sub-30 minutes for me!). You can then log in and add products to your standing order, as well as on a week-by-week basis. Minimum order is 2 gallons of milk, but you can sub bread or eggs for a half-gallon. You can pause delivery during travel. Add a bank account to your profile to be auto-debited monthly.
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