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Washington County Cheesemakers - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Washington County Cheesemakers

Proud Sponsors of the 2010 Annual Free Washington County Cheese Tour September 11-12 Who are the Washington County Che...

Making Cheese at Heifer International's Overlook Farm - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Cheese at Heifer International's Overlook Farm

Liz Ellis is Cooking Up a New Curriculum We first met Liz at Jim’s last advanced cheesemaking workshop. She mentioned t...

Artisan Cheesemakers #3- Mukund Naidu - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Artisan Cheesemakers #3- Mukund Naidu

In a Small Village in India, Mukund Naidu is Making Fabulous Cheese! Ricki’s daughter, Sarah, manages our Facebook acc...

Making Farmstead Cheddar - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Farmstead Cheddar

Jayne Maker Warwick, Rhode Island We first got to know Jayne in April when she was our “Interview #4 with a New Cheese Ma...

An Advanced Workshop with Jim Wallace - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

An Advanced Workshop with Jim Wallace

Q. Are workshops really all they’re cracked up to be? A. Yes!!! Ask any great American cheesemaker how they learn...

Making Cheese in Nicaragua - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Cheese in Nicaragua

Suze Cohan El Sontule, Nicaragua Suze Cohan first wrote to us with a question about freezing her cultures. She mention...

Using Sheep's Milk to Make Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using Sheep's Milk to Make Cheese

A few months ago, we received this note from a customer: I was wondering if you might post on your “recipes wanted” secti...

Setting Up a Cheese Making Room - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Setting Up a Cheese Making Room

You may already know Noah and Sue Goddard from their farm in Lecompton, Kansas – GODDARD FARM PUREBRED NUBIAN DAIRY GOATS ...

Farmstead Cheesemaking in the Pyrenees - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Farmstead Cheesemaking in the Pyrenees

Sharilyn and Brian Clowes Last year, Sharilyn Clowes and her husband celebrated their 10th anniversary by selling their...

Artisan Cheesemakers #2  Hillman Farm - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Artisan Cheesemakers #2 Hillman Farm

Carolyn and Joe HillmanColrain, MA Is it really possible in “this day and age” for a couple to make their living high on ...

Smoking Your Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Smoking Your Cheese

Do I smoke cheese or add smoke to it? There are basically 3 ways to smoke your cheese: Most cheesemakers expose their ch...

Homogenizing Milk - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Homogenizing Milk

How is Milk Homogenized? There are 2 stages: 1) In most cases, the milk is forced through a narrow opening at very high p...

Artisan Cheesemakers #1 Westfield Farm - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Artisan Cheesemakers #1 Westfield Farm

Westfield Farm is located high on a hill in Hubbardston, MA, a small town in the center of the state. Bob and Debbie Ste...

Singing While Making Cheese! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Singing While Making Cheese!

  Lady in Red Ricki and Jamie have traveled around the world to singing camps sponsored by Village Harmony Singers. In t...

Filtering Milk with Snails!!! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Filtering Milk with Snails!!!

Filtering Milk If you have been following the controversies regarding pasteurization and homogenization of milk, you prob...

New Cheese Maker#4 - Jayne Maker - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

New Cheese Maker#4 - Jayne Maker

Jayne Maker in Warwick, RI Jayne Maker sent us a link to her blog recently. She calls it “The Barefoot Kitchen Witch.” We...

Using That Leftover Whey - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using That Leftover Whey

Don’t lie! We know you have been throwing it out! We have done it, too. When you first start making cheese, you have e...

Fresh White Cheese Recipe from Wendy Akin - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Fresh White Cheese Recipe from Wendy Akin

Akin Farm Akin Farm is an “pick yourself” organic vegetable farm in Terrell, TX (near Dallas). This year, they expect to ...

Cheese Making Workshops in Philo, Ohio - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheese Making Workshops in Philo, Ohio

Blue Rock Station If you want to read about a very interesting farm, check out the website for Blue Rock Station in Phil...

Cheese Making Classes in Duxbury, MA - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheese Making Classes in Duxbury, MA

Paula Harris, a longtime friend, sent us a link to an article about her cheesemaking classes in Duxbury, MA and Jody Feinb...

Probiotics in Yogurt - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Probiotics in Yogurt

How much is enough? Let’s face it- we’re not all scientists. Probiotics is all about strains of bacteria. There is a ...

Provolone Success Story! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Provolone Success Story!

This is a letter written by one of our customers, Carlo Milano, to Ricki: Thanks for all this (blog and newsletter) – you...

Latvian Easter Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Latvian Easter Cheese

PASKA We received this cheese from Brent Alderman Sterste, whose Grandmother and Great Aunt used to make it. It’s a...

New Cheese Maker#1 - Dan Earle - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

New Cheese Maker#1 - Dan Earle

Dan Earle in Nova Scotia This is the first in a series of interviews we will be doing with folks who are just beginning ...

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