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Curds, Goats & Gratitude: Life on Bluebird Meadow Farm

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...

Strawberry and Goat Cheese Bruschetta - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Strawberry and Goat Cheese Bruschetta

I found this recipe when I was looking for a dish to take to an outdoor, socially distanced pandemic meeting. I needed so...

Stony Creek Farm in Montgomery, MA - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Stony Creek Farm in Montgomery, MA

Gabriella Steria Gabriella Steria, a Mennonite, was raised on a farm in upstate New York. She moved to Western Massachus...

Beth-Ann Fortunato in Mena, Arkansas - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Beth-Ann Fortunato in Mena, Arkansas

At the goat festival in Perryville, AR last summer. We got goats because my husband is lactose intolerant and I always w...

Sheila Litchfield in Heath, MA - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Sheila Litchfield in Heath, MA

Sheila Litchfield has been raising goats, making cheese and teaching cheese making for over 30 years. Western Massachuse...

Ruby Goat Dairy in Jamaica - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ruby Goat Dairy in Jamaica

If you’re lucky enough to go to Jamaica this winter (or any other time), pay a visit to Ruth Mitchell and Byron Walker at ...

Bob Cassette in Saco, Maine - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Bob Cassette in Saco, Maine

Bob and his granddaughter, Melissa. She lives in Nebraska and has three kids with the oldest to graduate from high schoo...

Amy Monette in Reno, Nevada - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Amy Monette in Reno, Nevada

Rosie and Amy at the Expo. A few weeks ago, Amy sent us her fabulous version of Jim Wallace’s recipe for Lactic Cheese ...

Joan Schleh at Garden Home Farm in Mt. Vernon, Washington - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Joan Schleh at Garden Home Farm in Mt. Vernon, Washington

Joan Schleh with her fabulous cheese. Home Farm is a small farm in the Skagit Valley of northwest Washington. Joan Schl...

Ashley Wright in Buckley, Washington - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ashley Wright in Buckley, Washington

Logan, Ashley, Alanna, and their dog, Bella About a month ago, Ashley made a comment at one of our blog articles (about ...

Twisted Acres Farm in Bristow, Oklahoma - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Twisted Acres Farm in Bristow, Oklahoma

Lola Carter and Momo Looking for a yummy holiday gift? Lola Carter and her husband, Stephen raise goats and they make t...

Training a Goat to Pull by Julia Biegel - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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...

Wendy Gardner in Whitehall, Montana - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Wendy Gardner in Whitehall, Montana

Wendy Gardner is a master home cheese maker who raises and sells Alpine dairy goats in southwestern Montana. She does thi...

Jim Stone in Santa Fe, Texas - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Jim Stone in Santa Fe, Texas

Jim Stone first came to our attention when he made a comment at one of our blog articles. He mentioned that he was makin...

Claire Barker in Colorado - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Claire Barker in Colorado

Claire with her homemade goat milk soap. Claire Barker lives on a homestead near the Great Sand Dunes National Park in ...

How to Milk A Goat by Claire Barker - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Milk A Goat by Claire Barker

In 2015, we posted a letter Claire Barker had written to us about how she makes yogurt – News from Claire Barker in Color...

Considering the Care of Retired Dairy Goats - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Considering the Care of Retired Dairy Goats

Robin in early Spring, 2018 This post came from a discussion I had with Wendy Woodward at Witch Hazel Dairy in Snowflake...

Wendy Woodward in Snowflake, Arizona - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Wendy Woodward in Snowflake, Arizona

Wendy with Presto, her part-time house goat. He comes in to visit for a couple hours every night where he tries to scam ...

Spring Hill Farmstead Goat Cheese in Bayside, California - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Spring Hill Farmstead Goat Cheese in Bayside, California

Karin Eide with Helga and Horchata next to a mostly munched thistle plant. Border Collie Ruby is keeping a watchful eye. ...

Getting Your First Dairy Goat - Tips From Experts - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Getting Your First Dairy Goat - Tips From Experts

It seems like everyone wants to have dairy goats these days and why not? They’re affectionate, highly entertaining and t...

Raising a Kid Who Loves Goats! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Raising a Kid Who Loves Goats!

Hazel with Annie, her very first goat When I interviewed Vera Bennett in Show Low, Arizona, she recommended that I do an...

Vera Bennett, MD in Show Low, Arizona - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Vera Bennett, MD in Show Low, Arizona

I am a pediatrician in a small mountain town in Arizona (Show Low). I got into goats a couple of years ago, but really s...

Beltane Farm in Lebanon, Connecticut - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Beltane Farm in Lebanon, Connecticut

It’s a crazy scene at Beltane Farm this time of year – there are baby goats everywhere (they call it March Madness!) Ther...

Julie Ott's Goat Milk Yogurt - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Julie Ott's Goat Milk Yogurt

Julie Ott lives in North Berwick, Maine. She raises goats and makes a wide variety of cheeses with the milk. She has alr...

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