Fun Along The Whey

Curds, Goats & Gratitude: Life on Bluebird Meadow Farm

The First Goat, The First Cheese Eighteen years ago, on a quiet stretch of land in Ada, Michigan, Lisa Johnson brought hom...

5 Fresh Spring Cheeses to Make at Home | Easy, Seasonal Cheese Recipes

Spring: A Season of Renewal (and Cheese!) Spring is a season of beginnings. The days grow longer, the soil warms, and ever...

Good Cultured Cottage Cheese: Fresh and Healthy

What Is Cultured Cottage Cheese? Cultured cottage cheese is a fresh, creamy cheese that’s naturally fermented using benefi...

Gift Ideas for Cheesemakers and Cheese Lovers

Pin, $2, teepublic.com The giving season is coming up! It’s a little early but we think it’s a good idea to plan ahead ...

Yoel Blumberger: Cheesemaking Group in Israel and a Recipe for Castelmagno

Part of the group (with Castelmagno cheese) in front of a dairy high in the Italian Alps. Yoel is the 4th in (from right ...

The Cheese Show

This is a bit of a departure from our usual interviews, because Olivia Vessel and Joe Russell are most definitely insane(...

Using Glaze to Adorn Your Cheese with Flowers

A single serving of glazed goat cheese 5 years ago, I posted an article (Using Wildflowers In/On Your Cheese) about pick...

38 Cheesy Valentine's Day Cards

From TigerFeetCreations at Etsy. (click here) Valentine’s Day is coming and this year, many of us will be ordering our ...

Where to Buy Water Buffalo Milk in the U.S.

There’s just something so loveable about domesticated water buffalos, including the proper name – Bubalus bubalis. They’r...

June is National (Mostly Virtual) Dairy Month

National Dairy Month was originally known as “National Milk Month.” It was meant to recognize and honor the dairy indust...

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...

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...

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 ...

Using Whey in Your Garden

Ricki Carroll’s garden in 2015, from Pictures of Ricki’s Gardens It’s summer and some of us don’t do much cooking this t...

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...

Mysterious New Milk Processing Technology

Photo of Naturo CEO Jeff Hastings supplied by Naturo. We have no idea what this is! (Well, we didn’t until the update a...

Playing Music in the Cave?!

Beat Wampfler with an Emmental. Photo from his Twitter “Cheese in Surround Sound – a culinary art experiment” March 14t...

72 Cheeses You Can Make Now for the Holidays!

You Can Do It! There is no finer way to express your love for family and friends than with the gift of homemade cheese. ...

Training a Goat to Pull by Julia Biegel

Julia Biegel We’ve posted a lot of articles about goats who provide milk for cheese, etc., but we haven’t said a lot abo...

The Cheese Queen is Listening

Andrew Forsthoefel and Ricki Carroll (AKA The Cheese Queen) The Cheese Queen has officially decreed that everyone in the...

Bob's Homemade Limoncello

Now is a great time to start making holiday gifts (like the homemade vanilla extract we made a few weeks ago). All you n...

How to Host a Cheese Party by The Biegel Family

In April 2017, we posted an article about the Biegel family in Alberta, Canada (click here). The Biegels have a farm whe...

Why Butter Sculptures?

Butter Cow at the Iowa State Fair in 2011 – exactly 100 years from when the first one was made. Photo credit: Pinimg.com...

Making Vanilla Extract

Why make it? Vanilla extract is very expensive right now. I just bought a 12 oz bottle at BJ’s for $28 and that was way ...