Laine Crandall showed how to milk a goat Last year around this time, I posted an article about a goat show I attended at the Southern Vermont Dairy Goat Association, located in Marlboro, Vermont (click here). It was a great show and a good time. The SVDGA celebrates Goat Education Day every year in the Spring, with a wide variety of workshops and demonstrations. This
The Southern Vermont Dairy Goat Association
New SVDGA member, Kathy Burek with her three doelings Promoting Dairy Goats Since 1945 Recently, I attended my first ADGA (American Dairy Goat Association) sanctioned Dairy Goat Show at the SVDGA Clubhouse in Marlboro, Vermont. I went with my friend, Kathy Burek of Montague, Massachusetts who raises her own Nubians for the milk and the chevre she makes with it. She had just joined the
Three Shepherds Farm in Warren, Vermont
It’s what you would expect if you had high expectations! I felt as if I already knew Larry and Linda Faillace when I visited their farm a few days ago. I had just finished Linda’s shocking book “Mad Sheep” (2006) about our government’s raid on their small farm in 2001, when the USDA seized and subsequently killed all the Faillace’s (healthy) sheep. I was
Rebecca Siegel in Thetford, Vermont
Rebecca Siegel of Thetford, Vermont Another remarkable home cheese maker who has made it all and then some … Even after all the posts I have done about home cheese makers, I’m still amazed when they fearlessly set out to make the most complex cheeses… Rebecca Siegel’s husband, Michael, for example, with very little experience, tried to make a clothbound cheddar in 2010. That’s
Colby with Nancy Wolff
Nancy Wolff Is it really that easy?! Some folks just seem to be born to make cheese and Nancy Wolff is one of them. The post below is her first “attempt” at making a hard cheese. She makes it look so easy! (Well, we’ve been saying it’s easy for the last 38 years, but still…) We were looking for an article about Colby because
Strolling of the Heifers in Brattleboro, Vermont
During the parade, this evil cow kicked his ball right at me! This is huge!!! Ever since I started doing this blog, I have wanted to cover the famous Strolling of the Heifers weekend in Brattleboro, Vt. But, every year, something has come up and I haven’t been able to attend. Well, this year, I finally made it and I am here to tell
Green Mountain Yogurt
Ricki, Diane and Sarah ( Diane’s niece) The Smallest Licensed Dairy in Vermont! Ricki first met Diane Wyatt at the Hanover Farmer’s Market in Hanover, New Hampshire a few months ago. Diane told her she has made almost every cheese in Ricki’s book, “Home Cheese Making.” Diane and Ricki talked cheese for awhile and Ricki decided Diane was one of the nicest folks she had
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,