Those early years were rough. T.G. and his wife, Elizabeth, worked up to 20 hours a day doing all the milking, bottling and delivering themselves. Lee had to use just his initials so his name would fit on the bottle. Soon the dairy expanded to door-to-door delivery and business boomed.
By the ‘30s, Lee built the dairy’s first high-tech milking parlor, attracting crowds who wanted to see cows milked by machines. By the ‘50s, he would purchase over 70 dairy businesses and build a new processing plant. Lee became nothing short of an institution in the Orlando area, known for being generous to his employees and community alike. In fact, on the 50th anniversary of the dairy, more than 1,000 people gathered in Orlando to celebrate his achievements.
Today, T.G. Lee is considered Florida’s hometown dairy. In addition to fresh milk and juice, we deliver a full line of cultured products, cream, butter and eggs all across the Sunshine State. All thanks to a little cow named Hopper and a whole lot of hard work.