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Dela Ends in Brodhead, Wisconsin - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Dela Ends in Brodhead, Wisconsin

Dela and her husband, Tony Dela Ends (64) is a cheese maker, a mother, an organic farmer, and an activist. We’re in awe...

Beth Parker in Chazy, New York - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Beth Parker in Chazy, New York

Beth Parker and her family have a small farm in upstate New York, near the border with Canada and Vermont. It’s beautifu...

How to Host a Cheese Party by The Biegel Family - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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...

Anne Larsen in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Anne Larsen in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

Anne Larsen first wrote to us with a comment at one of our blog articles about making yogurt in the Instant Pot (click he...

Cherry Tomatoes Stuffed with Fresh Mozzarella - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cherry Tomatoes Stuffed with Fresh Mozzarella

I recently started doing the Ketogenic Diet which I absolutely love, and I now eat as much cheese as I want to (and that’...

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...

Easy-Cheesy Corn Fritters - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Easy-Cheesy Corn Fritters

There are at least a million recipes online for these fritters, but I had never tasted one until my brother’s wife, Karen...

Mona Kanner in Salem, Oregon - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Mona Kanner in Salem, Oregon

We first met Mona Kanner when she made a comment at Claire Barker’s article – How to Milk a Goat. She mentioned that she...

Why Butter Sculptures? - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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...

Anne's Clotted Cream - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Anne's Clotted Cream

Anne Larsen in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia was excited when she realized she could make clotted cream in her Instant ...

Making Vanilla Extract - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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 ...

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 ...

Brigadeiro - A Sweet Treat From Brazil - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Brigadeiro - A Sweet Treat From Brazil

Mariana Veiga is from Brazil and when she saw our last post (How to Make Condensed Milk), she sent us her recipe for the ...

How to Make Condensed Milk - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Make Condensed Milk

Got milk? Here’s another way (besides cheese) to preserve it. Essentially, you simply add sugar and remove 50% of the wa...

Manning Hill Farm in Winchester, New Hampshire - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Manning Hill Farm in Winchester, New Hampshire

I have passed by the sign to Manning Hill Farm a million times on my way to Keene, New Hampshire, but I never stopped in....

An Easy Way to Flip Camembert by Bob Albers - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

An Easy Way to Flip Camembert by Bob Albers

Bob Albers in Mandeville, Louisiana sent us this write-up on using hose clamps to aid in flipping Camembert. It would al...

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...

Getting Your First Dairy Cow - Tips from 5 Experts - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Getting Your First Dairy Cow - Tips from 5 Experts

Dairy farmers are always willing to share their knowledge about cows. The trick is catching up with them as they do their...

Martha Stewart's Amazing Strawberry Cake - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Martha Stewart's Amazing Strawberry Cake

There is absolutely no cheese in this recipe, but, I just had to share it with you! It isn’t new, but it’s new to me and...

Wine & Cider Competitions at The Big E, 2018 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Wine & Cider Competitions at The Big E, 2018

Behind the scenes at the judging In past years, I have volunteered at the cheese competition* at The Big E (Eastern State...

Martha's Puffy Omelette with Roasted Grapes - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Martha's Puffy Omelette with Roasted Grapes

Martha Harrington of Conway, Massachusetts owned and operated a bed & breakfast (The Nestle Inn) for 10 years where s...

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 ...

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