Fun Along The Whey

Since 1978 we have been sharing the joy of home cheese making. With over 100 step by step cheese making recipes, helpful guides and easy to use supplies it's fun and easy to make cheese at home.

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Bonnie Hastings in Olalla, Washington

Bonnie Hastings It’s rare that we interview a young person who has achieved Bonnie’s level of expertise in home cheese making. We’ll have to check back with her in a few years to see where she g...

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Barbara Fiorica in Wilton, California

Barbara with Grace who lived for 17 years. Barbara and her husband have been raising and judging Cashmere and Angora goats for over 15 years (Caprette Cashmere). They also have a few Nubians, wh...

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Brigitte Ruthman in Sandisfield, MA

Brigitte Ruthman, dairy farmer and investigative reporter It’s rare that I get to interview a cheesemaker in person, particularly during this pandemic. But, it was a beautiful drive to the Berks...

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Paula Barnett in Princeton, Texas

We first contacted Paula when she made a comment at our Pimento Cheese post. In it, she shared her Texas family version from the 30s-50s.* She explained that she had just started making cheese 4...

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Jonathan Groner in Bexley, Ohio

Dr. Jon Groner The most interesting people in the world are home cheese makers. Because we know this and because people rarely tell us just how interesting they really are, we usually Google the...

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Doug Hively in Tucson, Arizona: Making Yogurt

Doug Hively We were delighted when Doug wrote to us about his yogurt experiences (and triumphs). We knew you would want to hear about his process for making it and the lessons he has learned. We...

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3 New Videos From the Biegel Family

Screen shot from the cheddar video of Breanne and Brooklyn wrapping their cheeses. The Biegel family (of 11) in Grovedale, Alberta, Canada live and work on their large, self-sustaining farm. Amo...

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Imran Saleh Update - The Pandemic in Pakistan

Imran in August Imran’s last 7 years have been quite an adventure and it has been our honor to post many articles about him during this time.* In 2013, when we first met him (virtually), he was a...

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Cathy Bergstrom in Greensboro, North Carolina

We’ve been in Greensboro for 17 years. I grew up in Portland, ME and met my husband in college in Milwaukee, WI. From there we migrated to NH for graduate school then to Williamsburg, VA and Nor...

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Jamie Ryer's New Adventure

In Hawaii last February Last September we posted our interview with Jamie Ryer, a master cheesemaker in Fairfax, Virginia (http://blog.cheesemaking.com/jamie-ryer-in-fairfax-virginia/). Then, in ...

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Cheesy Cauliflower

This is a good “Keto friendly” recipe for vegetarians – high fat and low carb. It can be the main course or a side dish and you can replace the cauliflower with broccoli if you wish. We found i...

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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 videos on his YouTube channel (see the links below). He posted his last one (Ma...

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Kat Musgrove in Eugene, Oregon

Kat’s Story I tried goat cheese one day and knew I had to have more of it in my face. Buying it became expensive but lucky for me, Eugene is full of backyard goat farmers. So I began purchasing th...

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Drew Bayley in Ontario, Canada

Drew’s Story Hello from St. Catharines, a city in Canada near Niagara Falls! The Niagara region is famous for its wineries and tourist attractions along with fresh fruit and vegetables purchased ...

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Sarah Gerving in Hiawatha, Kansas

Sarah Gerving with her second batch of cottage cheese We love to hear from beginners! Sarah has just started making cheese and she’s loving it. We all know it’s an exciting adventure, so, if an...

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Cheesemakers Sharing About the Pandemic – A Series/5

The ‘sheltering in place’ phase of the pandemic is winding down somewhat in the US, so this will probably be the last episode in our series. We’re grateful for all the responses we received from ...

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Kathy Rowe in Tyner, Kentucky

Kathy with her Sbrinz cheese. Kathy Rowe and her husband Scott are both retired from the air force. They have 100 acres (Sturgeon Creek Farm in eastern Kentucky) where they raise goats, chickens,...

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Rebecca Blaevoet in New Brunswick, Canada

Rebecca with Vickie. Rebecca is blind and she makes cheese. It seems impossible, doesn’t it? We asked her about this and she was kind enough to explain how she does it further on in this interv...

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Mari's Fresh Brazilian Cheeses - Minas & Requeijão Cremoso

Mariana eating chestnuts which grow well in Slovenia. Mariana Veiga is from Brazil originally. She and her husband and young son traveled around the world three years ago, including Mongolia (Ma...

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Tony Hamblyn in New Zealand - Update

We first interviewed Tony in 2017 – click here At that time, he was working full time as a pilot for Air New Zealand. Now, with the country in lock down, the airlines are only operating at 5% of t...

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Marty Gossett in Hide-Away-Hills, Ohio

Marty with her drunken Asiago in front of her 1910 Hotpoint electric stove. 6 burners 2 ovens – all still work! Marty’s Story My husband, Greg and I live on a lake in the woods about an hour fro...

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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 o...

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Cheesemakers Sharing About the Pandemic - A Series/3

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 o...

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Cheesemakers Sharing About the Pandemic – A Series/2

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 o...

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