Springfield Creamery, Inc.

Agree with the first reviewer. While attending UofO, days of Prefontaine, it was Animal House. Joined the Willamette People’s Co-​op, reducing my food cost: Tillamook Chesse, Nancy’s Yogart, and back then Springfield Creamery Raw Milk. (What, they don’t sell raw milk anymore!)
Adding to the first reviewer: Ken Kesey was the subject of Tom Wolfe’s «The Electric Kool-​Aid Acid Test». Dead Heads helped keep this place alive in its formative years.

WHAT?! There’s no review of Springfield Creamery yet? They’re only the providers of some of the greatest dairy products in the NW. This is criminal.
So I will be the first to say then that I love soooo many things this place has to offer. And they have loads of awesome hippie history behind them. Chuck Kesey is the brother of Ken «One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest» Kesey. The Grateful Dead played a benefit concert for the creamery in 1972. And Huey Lewis used to drive their yogurt down to San Francisco markets, before he ever joined up with the News. How cool is that?
And then there’s the yogurt… ohhhh the yogurt. My kids are being raised on this stuff. It tastes so good, and stupendously wholesome that we buy two of the huge tubs every week. After eating their whole milk honey yogurt, who could ever stomach Yoplait again? We eat it with fruit, mixed with cereal (it’s really good with Reese’s Puffs), as a marinade for chicken with Indian spices, or mixed into Indian curries… seriously, the stuff is great. Everything that yogurt is supposed to be. My favorite of their flavored yogurts is definitely maple. Superb.
But they have lots of other great stuff too. Their sour cream tastes like crema mexicana, and goes perfectly with spicy bean dip or nachos. Their cream cheese puts Philadelphia to shame too. My husband loves their kefir blended with fruit as well, it’s one of his favorite treats to break his fast with at night during Ramadan. I am not particularly a fan of their cottage cheese, but I don’t fault them for that-​I think it’s merely a taste difference, as opposed to something wrong with their craft. And I’ve never had the opportunity to try their soy products, but I bet they’re probably pretty great too. Now, if only Winco would start selling the big tubs of whole milk yogurt, I’d be a very, very happy camper.