About

As with most foods people eat nowadays, there is an alarming disconnect between the majority of consumers and their dairy products. Not only that, but most dairy products we find on store shelves nowadays are far from what dairy is truly meant to be. Cattail Creamery’s main goals are to reconnect people with where their dairy comes from, and provide delicious, premium, grass fed dairy products. 

Dairies in Oklahoma are becoming incredibly sparse. Why? Because running a dairy is not easy. Especially a grass fed dairy. For lots of reasons.

Insert: Cattail Creamery! We recognize the challenges of being a small, grass fed dairy in the middle of the country. And we welcome them. Why? Because we recognize a need in our community for not only quality dairy, but reconnection. And it is our mission to provide you with just that. 

Cattail Creamery is a microcreamery producing grass fed milk and dairy products. Our cows are constantly on pasture, and supplemented with Alfalfa and Timothy grass pellets at milking time, to bring you the highest quality product. 

Our focus is on quality, not quantity. No grains, no hormones. 

Just dairy as it should be. 

My Background 

My name is Morgan Long. I grew up a small town kid. Playing sports, riding four-wheelers, catching catfish, picking honeysuckles, running around in the creek barefoot, and spending time with my family. I’ve always had a deep love for nature, animals, and hard work. So, it’s no wonder I became a farmer.

As a kid, milk was my beverage of choice. Nothing hit the spot quite like a cold, fresh glass of milk. My family and I would make trips to our local dairy just to pick up raw milk and cream. I would watch from the outside, through the window, in awe whenever we happened to be there during milking time. I watched my mom make butter from the cream, and I would help her in the kitchen making simple cheeses. Butter is basically its own food group in our household.

I went to college at the University of Oklahoma. I was a student athlete competing for the university’s track and cross country teams. I spent some time studying nutrition. But, it wasn’t long until I realized everything being taught was institutionalized and blatantly false.

I quickly changed direction with the intention to study regenerative agriculture to help combat modern health issues at the root cause. However, I instead found myself studying aquatics and wildlife conservation. Another passion of mine.

After graduating, I moved to Yellowstone National Park to work with the Park Service on nonnative trout removal. However, after spending only a short time working on this project, I became very ill. This unexpected turn of events reignited my passion to pursue a career in agriculture.

After recovering, I packed up and moved to upstate NY to work on a regenerative goat dairy: Asgaard Farm and Dairy. Here I learned the ins and outs of goat husbandry and dairy operations. Along with how to raise cattle, pigs, laying hens, and meat chickens. I helped deliver and raise kids, milk the goats, and all of the in-betweens. All the way up to making and caring for the cheeses. Here I fell in love with the rhythm of a dairy. Fell in love with the intimate relationships and bonds one is able to create with each animal.

While I lived and worked in upstate NY, I was also able to experience the incredible dairies in the surrounding area. Often, after milking the goats in the morning, I would drive down the road to a 100% grass fed dairy, buy a quart jar of milk and a cookie. I would sit outside their self-serve shop, watch the sun rise over the mountains, and drink the entire quart of cold milk with my cookie for my breakfast before returning to Asgaard for a full day of work. The most amazing milk I’ve ever had to this day.

I want people in Oklahoma to be able to experience dairy like I have. Or at least close to it. Because true dairy is special. True dairy is healing. True dairy is memorable.