Our History
Mountain Laurel Jerseys
Established in 1883
Jesse Pearson is the fourth-generation farmer in his family. The family has raised dairy cows in the Trout Lake Valley since the late 1800s.
Charles Pearson emigrated from Sweden when he was 12 years old and worked on the railroad all the way to Trout Lake. He was the second settler in Trout Lake. Charles had cows but it was his son George who started a dairy farm. Monte Pearson transitioned the dairy farm to organic in 1995.
Jesse Pearson, former manager of North Land of Milk and Honey raw milk dairy, merged the two operations and transitioned Mountain Laurel Jerseys to raw milk production.
North Land of Milk & Honey
Established in 2011
Jim Lambert raised his children on raw milk. He and his family moved to Trout Lake in the 1990s. When he found he couldn’t easily find raw milk in the area, he decided to start his own raw milk dairy.
In 1995, Jim Lambert purchased a small dairy and rented two milk cows. Eventually he would start working toward making raw milk available to the masses. Raw milk from North Land of Milk and Honey Dairy was first made available for sale in June 2011.
Jim Lambert’s son-in-law, Jesse Pearson, joined the operation the summer of 2013. Jesse took over the farm in 2015 and expanded it to now 30 dairy cows. Jesse, his wife Megan, and their ten children live and work on the farm in Trout Lake Valley — the fifth Generation!
“We are Jesse and Megan Pearson and it is our delight to be raising our ten children on our family’s fourth generation dairy farm nestled in the beautiful Trout Lake Valley. Our old-fashioned Jersey cows graze on the lush pastures as they have since 1883, when our Great-Grandparents, Charles and Suzy, homesteaded here.”
