When Ruth Cohn started making cheese 3 years ago, it hit her hard! In fact, when a friend asked her how she got into cheesemaking, she said, “It is not a hobby, it’s an illness!” If it is an illness, she should know… Ruth is a psychotherapist with 2 books in print – Coming Home to Passion and her latest, due to be released 8/31
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Amanda Lockwood in Orange, Australia
Amanda Lockwood told us “Some days I try to do too many things😂.” That seems like quite an understatement! She has 4 children and 3 grandchildren with 2 teenagers living at home. She teaches for a living, she maintains a large garden and she is the proud owner of a milking cow which enables her to make all kinds of dairy products. She used to
Vickie Jasinsky in Dixon, California
I live in a small city in Northern California, just 30 minutes west of Sacramento. Making cheese gives me a little respite from my job as an Emergency Medical Services Administrator and caregiver to my daughter (and her giant dog), who came to live with me recently. I’ve been working at home a few days a week during the pandemic, giving me a couple hours
Paul Schiebold in Colorado Springs, Colorado
I am a retired environmental engineer who recently moved to Colorado Springs, CO. I make cheese at least once a week. My previous job had me designing and implementing ways to clean up contaminated soil and groundwater. One of my specialties involved the use of microbes to reduce the concentrations of harmful chemicals. Cheesemaking gives me similar challenges and delicious edible rewards. I enjoy using
Cheesemakers Sharing About the Pandemic – A Series/4
Many of you have given us blog interviews in the last 10 years (since we started this blog) and many of you will be interviewed in the future (when we hear from you). We reached out to a few of our interviewees (randomly) to ask if they would share their experiences during this pandemic. We thought it would be best to ask folks we have
Don Kaiser’s First Cheese
Don Kaiser in Billings, Montana started making cheese recently for a very sad reason … I lived in downtown Billings, well up until last summer. Though I lived in a residential area, my back yard was a sanctuary for me – towering sandstone cliffs, squirrels, rock chucks, mule deer, turkeys and an occasional Bull snake. The wife and I spent thirteen years grooming our little
Lynn Keay in Sacramento, CA
We often say that cheesemakers are the most interesting people in the world. We don’t know exactly why that is, but it holds true in every interview we do. Lynn Keay is an inveterate “do-it-herselfer,” an artist in just about everything she does, and an exemplary role model for her young grandson (although she would never describe herself in such glowing terms!). She is also,
Stephanie Robbins in Edwardsville, Illinois
I am located in Edwardsville, Illinois, which is a college town located about 15 miles from St. Louis, Missouri. I became interested in making cheese on a farm-to-table themed visit to Vermont in 2015. Part of the program was a mozzarella making session at a kitchen store in Burlington, VT. I was instantly hooked. When I came home I tried, mostly unsuccessfully, to make a