Clean, traditionally made butter has become surprisingly hard to find, especially outside of large industrial systems.
The reality is this: butter is no longer something most small family farms can sustainably produce.
Regulations, licensing, specialized equipment, and labor demands make butter one of the first traditional foods to disappear.
We wish we could offer local family farm butter alongside our milk, meat, and eggs — but in today’s world, that’s rarely possible.
Minerva is a long-standing, family-run dairy that still produces butter using traditional methods at a scale large enough to survive — while preserving quality and care.
Their butter contains 85% butterfat, higher than standard grocery-store butter, resulting in a richer flavor and creamier texture.
This version is lightly salted with sea salt — not to make it salty, but to enhance the natural flavor of the cream and improve keeping quality.
Historically, salted butter was the everyday butter of real kitchens, valued for both flavor and practicality.
Why We Carry This Butter
Butter is one of the hardest traditional foods for small farms to make and survive.
Most no longer can.
We offer Minerva Dairy butter as an honest bridge — a clean, traditionally made option that many families already buy elsewhere.
Choosing to purchase it through ROCK Farmhouse helps support our delivery routes, farm relationships, and access to the foods that can still be produced at small-farm scale.
Many of our customers already rely on Kerrygold simply because clean butter options are limited .
We’re offering Minerva as a clean alternative, and because if you’re going to buy butter anyway, we’d rather keep those dollars flowing through local small family business.
Even when a product exists elsewhere, choosing to purchase it here helps sustain the deliveries, pickup routes, and farm relationships that make the rest of your cart possible.
Whenever possible, we still encourage families to buy raw cream and make their own butter. That skill, and that connection to food, matter deeply to us.
This product exists because some traditional foods are now difficult to sustain — and pretending otherwise doesn’t help preserve them.
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Size: 2 lb roll
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Ingredients: Pasteurized cream, sea salt
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Style: Sea salt butter, traditional roll
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Butterfat: 85% for richer flavor and texture
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Salted: Lightly salted to enhance flavor
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Best use: Everyday cooking, spreading, and finishing
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More affordable alternative to Kerrygold
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Clean ingredients: Just cream and sea salt
