July 18, 2008, the ESP core team (Edd Blackler, Edmund Fitzgerald, Sally Janover and Catherine Haug) invited County Commissioner and local dairyman Joe Brenneman for an interview about milk production in the Flathead. This was shortly after the Meadow Gold Dairy shut down its processing plant in Kalispell, converting it to a distribution warehouse. There are currently two commercial dairy farmers in the valley: Brenneman and Hedstrom, both of whom had sold their milk to Meadow Gold, and now sell to Country Classics. (more…)