GILL — From the outside looking in, not much has changed at Sunrise Valley Farm recently. But, for the past month or so, owners Brian and Keri Peila have had one major addition to their to-do list.

With help from their three children, the couple has started Peila’s Creamery at 20 Lyons Hill Road, making yogurt and cheeses with the milk produced by the 120 cows on the farm.

“It’s another business, basically, within the business,” Brian said inside his small farm store on Friday.

The creamery produces white and chocolate creamline milks, which are not homogenized and have a layer of cream that separates from the milk after it has been processed and bottled. The milk on site is also used to make plain, maple and banana yogurts as well as ricotta cheese and cheese curds with flavors such as buffalo, barbecue and dill pickle.

While small farms across the country are struggling due to climate change and farm consolidation, the Peilas said business is strong because consumers are increasingly moving away from mass-produced supermarket milk.

“The support has been huge,” Keri said.

Brian said it was important to him and his wife to develop the creamery to keep the farm sustainable for the next generation.

“I think today people want to know where their food’s coming from,” he said. “We’re trying to keep everything as healthy as possible.”

Brian mentioned a young girl who could not handle supermarket milk and had been on the plant-based stuff since being weaned off baby formula. However, he said she can consume the Peilas’ creamline milk without issue.

“The important thing to us is to know that what we’re doing is making a difference in some lives,” he said.

The Peilas sell their creamery products at the Northfield Food Mart and will soon be at Green Fields Market.

“And we’re just going to keep growing from there,” Brian said. “There isn’t this type of milk anywhere that I know in Massachusetts.”

Brian said he has spent his entire life in agriculture, growing up o in Bernardston. The Peilas have rented Sunrise Valley Farm in Gill from the Zak family since 2011.

Brian said his family farms about 280 acres and also sells beef, maple syrup, ice cream and popcorn kernels.

Reach Domenic Poli at: dpoli@recorder.com or 413-930-4120.