Fun Along The Whey

Whether you’re just getting started or you’ve been making cheese for years, you’re in the right place. Here, we cover the essentials of homemade cheese—from fresh cheese like mozzarella and ricotta to aged classics like cheddar and gouda. Browse our articles, or dive into a cheese making topic by scrolling below.

Pictures from the Winter Fancy Food Show, 2023 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Pictures from the Winter Fancy Food Show, 2023

Colleagues Ritz Guggiana (RG Consultants) and David Viviani (www.vivianimarketing.com) Ten years ago, I went to the Summ...

Cheesemaking Classes in the U.S. (Current) - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheesemaking Classes in the U.S. (Current)

Sarah Carroll at her Cheesemaking 101 workshop at New England Cheesemaking Supply Co. We first made this list in 2011 a...

Upcoming Cheese Festivals (Current) - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Upcoming Cheese Festivals (Current)

Ricki Carroll (The Cheese Queen) at the Festival of Cheeses in 2015. This used to be the last event at the annual Americ...

Vivian Lucero's Trip to the California Artisan Cheese Festival - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Vivian Lucero's Trip to the California Artisan Cheese Festival

Cheese please! In 2019, we had the pleasure of interviewing Vivian – Vivian Lucero in Otis, Oregon. She is a master che...

Kate's Mobile Cheesemaking Classes Hit the Road - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Kate's Mobile Cheesemaking Classes Hit the Road

Kate Johnson showing the curd to participants at her on-site Apple Valley Cider workshop. Kate Johnson, founder and owne...

Virtual American Cheese Society Conference, July 28-30 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Virtual American Cheese Society Conference, July 28-30

We have always been enthusiastic supporters of the American Cheese Society (ACS) because of the role it plays in promotin...

Kate Johnson's Online Cheese Making Classes - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Kate Johnson's Online Cheese Making Classes

We aren’t sure exactly how she managed to do it, but, when the pandemic hit, Kate Johnson pivoted from her “brick & m...

Tidbits - 050 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Tidbits - 050

Tooting Our Own Horn: It seems to us that a LOT of you are making cheese during the pandemic and that makes our book the...

Exciting New Membership Club for Cheesemakers! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Exciting New Membership Club for Cheesemakers!

We think this is a real breakthrough for home cheesemakers! Kate Johnson at The Art of Cheese in Longmont, Colorado is of...

Dale Calder on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Dale Calder on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada

Dale Calder with Angel. Almost everyone who has ever made cheese has heard of Dale Calder. He has 33 cheesemaking video...

Virtual Certification Program for Cheesemakers - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Virtual Certification Program for Cheesemakers

Kate Johnson at The Art of Cheese in Longmont, Colorado is at it again! She’s always thinking of new ways to make cheese...

Kate Johnson's 7-Day Cheese Challenge via Zoom - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Kate Johnson's 7-Day Cheese Challenge via Zoom

Virtual, Interactive Cheese Classes We have known Kate Johnson, the owner of The Art of Cheese in Longmont, Colorado for ...

Cheesemaking in Paradise - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheesemaking in Paradise

Kate Johnson took this picture of her first class in Hawaii with their certificates of completion. Jamie Ryer, author of...

New Online Course: Environmental Monitoring in the Dairy Industry - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

New Online Course: Environmental Monitoring in the Dairy Industry

A couple of years ago, we posted an article about a new online course, produced by the North Carolina State University FBN...

Follow Up - Fete des Fromages, 2019 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Follow Up - Fete des Fromages, 2019

Last month our good friend Bob Albers,* who lives in Mandeville, Louisianna told us about the fabulous New Orleans Fete d...

Fete des Fromages 2019 in New Orleans - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Fete des Fromages 2019 in New Orleans

Our good friend, Bob Albers in Mandeville, Louisiana has contributed many blog articles over the past 3 years (for which ...

Cheese Festival & Cows' Ball in Slovenia - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheese Festival & Cows' Ball in Slovenia

Coming down from the mountain at the Cows’ Ball We love hearing from Mariana Veiga because she has traveled all around t...

Cheese Making Workshops in Montreal - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheese Making Workshops in Montreal

Photo taken at the last boot camp workshop in September Les Ateliers Fromagers It’s been almost 5 years since Sylvain P...

Cheese Making Retreat in Hawaii / February, 2020 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheese Making Retreat in Hawaii / February, 2020

Cheesemaking in Paradise Retreat! Leave it to our friend Kate Johnson in Colorado* to come up with this fun idea! Kate i...

New England Regional Cheese Competition 2019 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

New England Regional Cheese Competition 2019

Kate Smith, John Greeley and Poul Price, judges In 2007, Elena Hovagimian was working for Donna Woolam, the Director of ...

Home Cheese Making Competitions - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Home Cheese Making Competitions

It’s a wonderful idea and, yet, it seems to be the impossible dream. Why is it a great idea? Cheese making is basically a...

Deal Alert! 12 Days of Cheese Sale - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Deal Alert! 12 Days of Cheese Sale

In 2016, Whole Foods came out with their list of the 12 Cheeses You Can’t Live Without, chosen by their global cheese buy...

Making Cheese in Nairobi - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Cheese in Nairobi

A while back, one of our readers asked us to connect her with Sandra Daniels, a missionary in Kenya (article in 2011). T...

The Fabulous Cheshire Cheese Fest 2018 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

The Fabulous Cheshire Cheese Fest 2018

This painting, commemorating the people of Cheshire and their famous cheese was in the history tent with artifacts and in...

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