Making Farmstead Baby Swiss, Fiddlehead Tommes and Jacks Stan Richmond sat behind a desk for most of his working life. But when he was 53, five years ago, he made a big change. He came to Boggy Meadow Farm to be a cheesemaker and he hasn’t taken a seat since then. As most of you know, making cheese commercially is hard, physically demanding work. Stan
Taylor Farm in Londonderry, Vermont
Making Award-Winning Farmstead Gouda Jonathan Wright has a vision. He dreams of artisan cheesemakers in his area sharing their resources to produce their cheeses more economically. Within a fairly small geographical area, several cheesemakers would make their own special cheeses in the same place, using much of the same equipment, the same office workers, and the same marketing staff. They would raise their own herds,
Chase Hill Farm in Warwick, MA
Organic Raw Milk Farmstead Cheese Jeanette and Mark Fellows in Warwick, Massachusetts (www.chasehillfarm.com) have been living off their land for 10 years. They sell organic farmstead cheese, real milk, grass fed beef, pork and veal at their farm, a few local stores and the farmer’s market in Amherst. By working hard and living simply, they have managed to raise two children who are now in
Brazos Valley Cheese in Texas
Winner of two ribbons at the American Cheese Society competition! As you already know, several of us from New England Cheesemaking Supply Co. went to Seattle a few weeks ago to the annual convention. While we were working our table in the registration area, we met Rebeccah Durkin and Marc Kuehl from Brazos Valley Cheese in Waco, Texas. Rebeccah told us that our book, Home
Artisan Cheesemakers – Plymouth Cheese
Making Cheese the Way They Did 100 Years Ago! It seemed like I drove forever to the middle of nowhere, where Vermont meets the end of the earth, to find Jesse Werner’s slice of heaven! The surprise was that I wasn’t the only one there. Apparently, tourists from everywhere come in droves to see how cheese is made in a factory built by Calvin Coolidge’s
Artisan Cheesemakers #3 The Farmstead at Mine Brook
Goat Rising and Jersey Maid Cheeses Come From the Same Small Farm! John Miller is a 10th generation New England farmer. For years, he raised and milked Jersey cows in the Chesterfield, MA area. He showed his cows in competitions and he won more often than not. I asked him to tell us some of his story and he was happy to oblige. When his
Setting Up a Cheese Making Room
You may already know Noah and Sue Goddard from their farm in Lecompton, Kansas – GODDARD FARM PUREBRED NUBIAN DAIRY GOATS and from their forum about raising goats and making cheese. Their BASIC CHEESEMAKING forum is very active and you may find it helpful- especially if you are raising your own dairy goats and making cheese with the milk. To sign up, go to: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647248895375851/ We
Farmstead Cheesemaking in the Pyrenees
Sharilyn and Brian Clowes Last year, Sharilyn Clowes and her husband celebrated their 10th anniversary by selling their belongings and taking off from Canada on an open ended bicycle trip through Europe. They visited 14 countries and they documented the entire trip on their blog on Travelpod. When they were staying in Boussenac, Midi-Pyrénées, France, they were taken by friends to a small dairy in