Andrew Ferry News Today

Feis Footlights series: Helena and Bridie Ferry

With the much anticipated centenary of Feis Doire Colmcille now just a few weeks away, a CD of songs that have been feis standards over the past 100 years is no...

Now customers can buy pasteurized milk right from the dairy farm at Westport Dairy.

Andrew Ferry milks 50 cows at his Pine Hill Dairy farm in Westport. He sells most of that milk to Garelick Farms, where it’s pasteurized (to kill bacteria) then distributed to grocery stores. But Ferry also sells raw, unpasteurized milk directly from his farm. Since the start of the pandemic, his raw milk sales have jumped by about 25%.

WESTPORT — When third-generation farmer Andrew Ferry’s grandfather built the family barn on Gifford Road in the 1940s, another barn was built and opened during the same time period — becoming the iconic Main Road barn, according to Ferry. In 2016, the Gifford Road barn was destroyed in a fire but Ferry takes solace in how he and his wife, Shauna, as well as parents, Mike and Deborah, have purchased another barn and farm — a “piece of town and family history,” Ferry says. “It is un...