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Fellow Cheese MakersBoggy Meadow Farm in Walpole, New Hampshire

Boggy Meadow Farm in Walpole, New Hampshire

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 ...

Cheese Making RecipeCheese Challenge - Monterey Jack

Cheese Challenge - Monterey Jack

Suzanne McMinn is One for One in the Big Challenge! She did it! So, now she’s closer to her goal to become a GREAT home cheesemaker. Suzanne documented her experience in the article below. This...

Cheese Making RecipeThe Greening of Gavin's Wensleydale

The Greening of Gavin's Wensleydale

Back to Basics in Australia Many of you have probably read a wonderful blog called The Greening of Gavin, written by an Australian father of 4 who watched “An Inconvenient Truth,” in 2006, and dec...

Cheese Making RecipeLarry Todd on Making Gouda

Larry Todd on Making Gouda

Flinging Wax in His Retirement! Larry Todd in Billings, Montana knows what he’s doing when it comes to making cheese. But I had to laugh when he told me about a little accident he had with his...

Fellow Cheese MakersPreparing for "Chickens in the Road" Challenge

Preparing for "Chickens in the Road" Challenge

Suzanne McMinn is gearing up to make some serious cheese! In case you missed it in our last Moosletter, we challenged Suzanne to make a new “hard” cheese every month for the rest of her life, altho...

Fellow Cheese MakersRashel Harris in Texas - 2010

Rashel Harris in Texas - 2010

Wow! Can she make cheese! When Rashel Harris read Sally Fallon’s “Nourishing Traditions,” she made up her mind to eat healthy food. Then, she changed her whole way of life to accomplish her goal...

Fellow Cheese MakersTaylor Farm in Londonderry, Vermont

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 fairl...

Cheese Making RecipeHomemade Velveeta

Homemade Velveeta

Are you serious? We are. Our official policy is that there is no law against consenting adults making Velveeta in the privacy of their own homes. Yes, it’s embarrassing, but the truth is that som...

Fellow Cheese MakersChase Hill Farm in Warwick, MA

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, r...

Fellow Cheese MakersSuzanne McMinn from West Virginia

Suzanne McMinn from West Virginia

She wanted to live where chickens could be in the road . . . Suzanne McMinn lives in the backwoods of rural West Virginia in a house she built with a wrap-around porch, on a dirt road. To get...

Fellow Cheese MakersNew Cheese Maker#12 - Jim Cooper

New Cheese Maker#12 - Jim Cooper

Jim Cooper makes cheese, sings opera, and writes food reviews in his “retirement!” If there was any doubt in your mind about whether the most interesting people in the world make their own cheese,...

EventsKookoolan Farms in Oregon

Kookoolan Farms in Oregon

Chrissie and Koorosh Zaerpoor are into everything! Before we get into the list of their projects, let me just explain what a “Kookoolan” is- it was a nickname Koorosh’s father gave him when he was...

Fellow Cheese MakersNew Cheese Maker#11 - Ellen Knowles

New Cheese Maker#11 - Ellen Knowles

Howdy from Fort Worth! No, this is not “Articles about Texas” month! It was totally by chance that I ended up interviewing Ellen Knowles, one of Rebeccah Durkin’s students in her cheesemaking cl...

EventsBrazos Valley Cheese in Texas

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 conventi...

Fellow Cheese MakersNew Cheese Maker#10 - Tara Tarbet

New Cheese Maker#10 - Tara Tarbet

Tara Tarbet from Highland, Utah “When I got married 30 years ago, I couldn’t do a thing! Well…. I could make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but that was about it. Lots and lots of stuff to le...

Fellow Cheese MakersArtisan Cheesemakers - Plymouth Cheese

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 surpri...

Fellow Cheese MakersMaking Cheese in Prison

Making Cheese in Prison

Where there’s a will, there’s a whey . . . It seems amazing, but the urge to eat cheese is so strong that many prisoners have figured out a way to make it in their cells. One prisoner wrote to us...

Fellow Cheese MakersDawn Kay in Water Valley, Alberta

Dawn Kay in Water Valley, Alberta

In May we posted an article about one of Jim Wallace’s advanced cheesemaking workshops in Ashfield, MA. (Jim is our technical advisor.) Dawn travelled over 2000 miles from her farm in Canada to ...

Fellow Cheese MakersArtisan Cheesemakers #3 The Farmstead at Mine Brook

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. ...

Fellow Cheese MakersThe Living Farm in Paonia, Colorado

The Living Farm in Paonia, Colorado

Lynn Gillespie shares her dream . . . Lynn first wrote to us with a tip for making Mozzarella with sheep’s milk ( 4 drops of organic vegetable rennet and 2 teaspoons of citric acid to one gallon o...

Fellow Cheese MakersNew Cheese Maker#9 - Mia Herrera

New Cheese Maker#9 - Mia Herrera

Mia Earth Song Herrera Age: 11 LaBelle, Florida Mia’s mother, Maureen, first wrote to us with the address of her farm so we could list it on our Good Milk List. She mentioned that her young daugh...

Fellow Cheese MakersHats Off to The Cheeses of France Marketing Council

Hats Off to The Cheeses of France Marketing Council

Now this is a website!!! If you are interested in learning about French cheeses (including how to pronounce them), check out this website- www.cheesesoffrance.com. I happened to stumble on it rec...

Fellow Cheese MakersMaking Cheese at Heifer International's Overlook Farm

Making Cheese at Heifer International's Overlook Farm

Liz Ellis is Cooking Up a New Curriculum We first met Liz at Jim’s last advanced cheesemaking workshop. She mentioned that she was a cook at Heifer International’s Overlook Farm in Rutland, MA. ...

Fellow Cheese MakersArtisan Cheesemakers #3- Mukund Naidu

Artisan Cheesemakers #3- Mukund Naidu

In a Small Village in India, Mukund Naidu is Making Fabulous Cheese! Ricki’s daughter, Sarah, manages our Facebook account (and does a fabulous job!). Recently, she told me about a friend who ...

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