Wrights dairy farm is tucked away in North Smithfield Rhode Island and is more than just a dairy farm. It all started in 1900 when the milk was being delivered in cans and has become a homestead where the 
family grew and they built a bakery with some of the best cakes I have ever tasted!
family grew and they built a bakery with some of the best cakes I have ever tasted! I come from a long line of dairy farmers, my father, grandfather and all my paternal uncles and cousins were dairy farmers. So it was no shock that I married a man whose father and grandfather pedaled milk with my father and grandfather! Rhode Island really is a small world. Well needless to say I thought it important for my kids to know all about dairy farms and where the milk they drink comes from.
In 2009 Wrights built a new milking barn and installed a viewing window. Every day between 3-5 PM the cows are milked and customers are welcome to watch through the viewing window, you just have to make sure the kids are quiet. It is quite the site, dozens of cows in a row hooked up to a machine that milks the cows and runs the milk through hoses. 
Next to the milking area there were calves in pens, they all started mooing at us! Well it was not us, they were about to be fed! They were absolutely adorable. While your at Wrights make sure to buy a Gallon of the milk and some pastries. I recommend the scones and the black and white cake, 2 of my favorites. A trip to Wrights would not be complete without a frosting shot. What is a frosting shot you ask? A shot glass size container of frosting and it is sooooo good.
My son has asked every day since we went when we are going back to see the cows get milked. I think he may dreaming of having another frosting shot but I am glad he loved seeing the animals and spending some time on a farm the way I did as a child.
