Quillisascut Farmstead Cheese and School of the Domestic Arts
That’s a long name for a farm! (Quillisascut means “place of scattered bushes” in Salish (Indian).) The owners, Rick and Lora Lea Misterly have earned this long name and their fame by surviving o...
Entering the ACS Competition 2014
Ricki with her Lifetime Achievement Award at our Sponsor’s Table in the lobby of the 2013 ACS Conference in Madison, Wisconsin We Challenge You! If you’re already a member of the American ...
Launching the Massachusetts Cheese Guild
Barbara Hanley, President of the Guild welcomed us warmly. We’re looking forward to getting to know her better. The word “guild” comes from medieval times when craftsmen and merchants fo...
Connecticut Celebrates Artisan Cheese in a Big Whey!
Brian Civitello This past weekend, the Coventry Regional Farmer’s Market at the Nathan Hale Homestead hosted the fabulous Connecticut Cheese Festival. The farmer’s market alone is always...
Goat Education Day at North Valley Dairy Goat Association
Don’t miss this! We couldn’t be further from California (we’re in Massachusetts), so we have never been able to attend this annual event. However, if you live anywhere near Red Bluff (north of Sa...
September 7-8, 2013 Raw Milk Dairy Days in Massachusetts
This Weekend and It’s Free! I just checked my calendar and realized I hadn’t told you about this exciting yearly event, sponsored by NOFA- the Northeast Organic Farming Association. This year 9 f...
The 2013 New England Regional Cheese Competition
For those of you who don’t know about The Big E (Eastern States Exposition), it is our annual, regional fair with all 6 of the New England states participating. It begins on the second Friday aft...
Pictures from the ACS 2013 Convention
Almost every year, for the last 30 years, since she helped found the American Cheese Society, Ricki has been attending the annual ACS convention. It’s held in a different part of the country (or...
Larry Faillace and Ian Anderson in the cheese house at Cave’s Branch. 6 days and 5 nights in Belize, learning to make cheese … Deadline: July 31, 2013. This could be the easiest contest y...
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 th...
This is a picture from the Cave’s Branch website. The rest are ones I took when I went there. Anyone Want to Spend 5 Days at a Jungle Lodge in Belize Making Cheese?! Do you remember when ...
Chef Nancy Falster in East Texas
Chef Nancy and Karl Falster getting ready to “fire up” their earth oven Raising mini-cattle, making cheese and teaching a workshop in Uruguay – this is one busy lady! Chef Nancy Falster an...
U.S. Championship Cheese Contest
Kris Searle and her husband, Mike Bradley visiting Door County, Wisconsin There’s a lot of spitting going on at this judging! Kris Searle is a quilter with a great blog – In the Emerald...
Cheese Making Adventure in Belize - Part 4 of 4
This is the fourth in a 4 part series about a cheese making workshop at Ian Anderson’s Cave’s Branch Adventure Company and Jungle Lodge in Belize, taught by Linda and Larry Faillace of Three Shephe...
Cheese Making Adventure - Part 3 of 4
This is the third in a 4 part series about a cheese making workshop at Ian Anderson’s Cave’s Branch Adventure Company and Jungle Lodge in Belize, taught by Linda and Larry Faillace of Three Shepher...
Cheese Making Adventure in Belize - Part 2 of 4
This is the second in a 4 part series about a cheese making workshop at Ian Anderson’s Cave’s Branch Adventure Company and Jungle Lodge in Belize, taught by Linda and Larry Faillace of Three Shephe...
Cheese Making Adventure in Belize- Part 1 of 4
I’m home now, but still wearing my apron! If you think making cheese is fun at home, try making it at a jungle lodge in Belize! I just got back from an exciting trip to Ian Anderson’s Cav...
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...
Rose Boero in Central Wisconsin
Rose with her daughter, Margaret Becoming a licensed cheese maker in Wisconsin is a very big deal! Rose Boero, age 60, is a newly licensed cheese maker. It’s been a long journey for her. ...
Learn to Make Cheese at a Resort in Belize!
This is absolutely the resort of our dreams! Here in the office of New England Cheesemaking Supply, poised on the edge of winter, we are already planning our escape to the Caves Branch Jungle Lodg...
Jim's Workshop #2 with Simona Carini
She’s still learning “after all these years.” You know a cheese maker is serious when she flies from her home in northern California to our neck of the woods, Massachusetts, twice to attend one...
Pictures from the "Cheese Rally in Raleigh"
The American Cheese Society has pulled off another great conference. It really is amazing the way the ACS produces this 4 day event every year, filled with seminars, workshops, meetings, ceremon...
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...
This year’s event will be the biggest “drive yourself” cheese tour in the U.S.! What could be better than spending a fall weekend in upstate New York, sampling great cheese and touring the farm...
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