Fun Along The Whey

Whether you’re just getting started or you’ve been making cheese for years, you’re in the right place. Here, we cover the essentials of homemade cheese—from fresh cheese like mozzarella and ricotta to aged classics like cheddar and gouda. Browse our articles, or dive into a cheese making topic by scrolling below.

New Edition of Home Cheese Making! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

New Edition of Home Cheese Making!

Ricki with her new edition Home Cheese Making, 4th Edition By Ricki Carroll Forward by Ari Weintzweig (cofounder of Zing...

The Cheese Queen is Listening - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

The Cheese Queen is Listening

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

Ricki & Sarah at Mother Earth News Fair - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ricki & Sarah at Mother Earth News Fair

Sarah Carroll From Ricki (aka The Cheese Queen) with Love In May, my daughter Sarah and I took a trip to Asheville, Nort...

Holiday Party 2017 with Our Team of Veterans - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Holiday Party 2017 with Our Team of Veterans

The Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds, MA has a very successful Compensated Work Therapy Program for ...

Veterans Appreciation Day, 2017 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Veterans Appreciation Day, 2017

For the last 7 years, we have collaborated with the VA Healthcare Center in Leeds, MA to provide work for veterans at the ...

Making Fabulous Fromagina! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Fabulous Fromagina!

Her Story You may not know our friend Fromagina – she’s the lovely daughter of Mr. Fromage Blanc and Ms. Mascarpone. Ric...

Dehydrating Pears with the Cheese Queen - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Dehydrating Pears with the Cheese Queen

Ricki’s Dehydration Station Ricki is not only the Cheese Queen – she’s the Royal Dehydrator. In the last few years, she ...

Staff Profile:  Kathy Conley - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Staff Profile: Kathy Conley

Kathy Conley has worked at New England Cheesemaking Supply Co. longer than any other member of our team – 22 years in Jul...

Holiday Party for Our Team of Veterans-2016 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Holiday Party for Our Team of Veterans-2016

Ricki with Jim Pruner, Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist Every year around this time, we have a holiday party for the...

Pictures of Our Veteran's Appreciation Day, 2016 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Pictures of Our Veteran's Appreciation Day, 2016

Ricki Carroll, “The Cheese Queen” with veteran, Wayne Amodio For the last 6 years, we have been honored to share part of...

Ida's Retirement Party - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ida's Retirement Party

Jim, April, Ricki, Kathy, Ida, Mary (in back), Helen (Ida’s friend) in front, Jeri, Jeff, Angie, Jocelyn, Sarah, Mark Fo...

Appreciation from the VA! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Appreciation from the VA!

Mark, Jocelyn, Sarah and the Director of the Central Western MA Veterans Medical Center in Leeds, John Collins As you ma...

Ricki's Fabulous Barn! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ricki's Fabulous Barn!

Two years ago, Ricki started working on an old shed in the back of her yard which, at one time, had been a barn for her g...

Our Holiday Party with the Veterans - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Our Holiday Party with the Veterans

Lynn and Ricki – don’t ask! This year we carried on with our tradition of inviting the veterans who work on our team (as...

We Appreciate Our Team of Veterans - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

We Appreciate Our Team of Veterans

Ricki and Victor Rivera It’s been 6 years since the Cheese Queen first heard about a program for veterans called the Com...

Cheese Queen Testifies at GMO Hearing - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheese Queen Testifies at GMO Hearing

Tuesday, September 22nd Ricki traveled to our Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston for the public hearing on a bill which w...

2015 American Cheese Society Conference - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

2015 American Cheese Society Conference

The 2015 American Cheese Society Conference was in Providence, Rhode Island this year (the 32nd annual conference). NECS ...

Pictures of Ricki's Gardens - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Pictures of Ricki's Gardens

This summer Ricki was invited to be one of the featured gardens in the Franklin Land Trust’s 24th Annual Farm & Garden...

Ricki's Amazing Bead Art - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ricki's Amazing Bead Art

Ida, Angie, April, Sarah, Ricki, and Kathy Many folks don’t realize that our Cheese Queen is an artist (see prev...

Pictures of Our Veteran's Appreciation Day, 2014 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Pictures of Our Veteran's Appreciation Day, 2014

Ricki Carroll (The Cheese Queen) We owe a great deal of our success as a business to the help of a VA program ca...

PART 3 - The Cheese Queen's Story: The Early 1980's - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

PART 3 - The Cheese Queen's Story: The Early 1980's

Phenomenal Growth! This is the third in a comprehensive series about the history of New England Cheesemaking Supply Compan...

Ricki's Demo for High School Students - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ricki's Demo for High School Students

We have recently expanded our mission at New England Cheesemaking Supply Co: To inspire young people to learn the art of c...

Launching the Massachusetts Cheese Guild - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Launching the Massachusetts Cheese Guild

Barbara Hanley, President of the Guild welcomed us warmly. We’re looking forward to getting to know her better. ...

Pictures from the ACS 2013 Convention - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Pictures from the ACS 2013 Convention

Almost every year, for the last 30 years, since she helped found the American Cheese Society, Ricki has been attending ...

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