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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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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