When the Springfield Creamery fell on hard times, the owners enlisted the help of The Grateful Dead to help pay a big bill.
EUGENE, Ore. — The Springfield Creamery has been a family run business for the last 65 years. Today, the company’s main headquarters are in Eugene, but it first started out as a small milk bottling company in 1960. That year, shortly after founders Chuck and Sue Kesey were married, the couple opened the creamery and started off by bottling milk.
“When we went to school, we drank the milk on our trays that our parents bottled in the creamery,” Sheryl Kesey Thompson said.
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