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Tasha Greer in Lowgap, North Carolina - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Tasha Greer in Lowgap, North Carolina

Tasha Greer Tasha has a popular website (Simplestead.com) where she chronicles her life as a homesteader in the Blue Ri...

Rebecca Noble in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Rebecca Noble in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Rebecca Noble with with some recent makes: From center-left: Valencay, Camembert, Monk’s Cheese, Havarti w/dill, Butter...

Sr. Mary Catharine Perry in Summit, New Jersey - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Sr. Mary Catharine Perry in Summit, New Jersey

Sr. Mary Catherine with her Asiago, drying on the cheese mat Sr. Mary Catharine was 22 when she became a nun at the Mona...

Fun with Cheese Crackers! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Fun with Cheese Crackers!

We try to give you informative articles in this blog but sometimes we just have to share our silly ideas! We thought of ...

Charles Delcambre, MD in Fancy Gap, Virginia - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Charles Delcambre, MD in Fancy Gap, Virginia

Charles Delcambre with a Jarlsberg in his right hand, and a Gouda #2 in his left. Charles’s Story I am a retired physic...

How to Make a Peg Mill by Yoel Blumberger - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Make a Peg Mill by Yoel Blumberger

Yoel Blumberger with a 7 pound Castelmagno cheese he made and the peg mill he used when he made it. We first met Yoel in...

Ed Werner in Racine, Wisconsin - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ed Werner in Racine, Wisconsin

Ed with his first cheese – Swiss I started making cheese 3 months ago here in Racine after watching a video on how to ma...

Cindy Johnston in Lebanon, Pennsylvania - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cindy Johnston in Lebanon, Pennsylvania

Cindy Johnston This interview supports our theory that cheese makers are the most interesting people in the world. They...

Kate Johnson's Online Cheese Making Classes - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Kate Johnson's Online Cheese Making Classes

We aren’t sure exactly how she managed to do it, but, when the pandemic hit, Kate Johnson pivoted from her “brick & m...

Elizabeth McReynolds in Chino Hills, California - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Elizabeth McReynolds in Chino Hills, California

Elizabeth McReynolds Elizabeth’s Story I’m in Southern California. Both my husband and I were born and raised here, but...

David LaGarce in Houston, Texas - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

David LaGarce in Houston, Texas

David LaGarce wearing a shirt he bought for the 4th of July. Recently, David sent us pictures of his cheese making equip...

Gilded Fern Farm in Contoocook, New Hampshire - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Gilded Fern Farm in Contoocook, New Hampshire

Deb Allen and her daughter, Caroline It’s exciting for us to have found a fabulous cheese maker before she has become wi...

Bonnie Hastings in Olalla, Washington - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Bonnie Hastings in Olalla, Washington

Bonnie Hastings It’s rare that we interview a young person who has achieved Bonnie’s level of expertise in home cheese m...

Barbara Fiorica in Wilton, California - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Barbara Fiorica in Wilton, California

Barbara with Grace who lived for 17 years. Barbara and her husband have been raising and judging Cashmere and Angora goa...

Where to Buy Water Buffalo Milk in the U.S. - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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...

Brigitte Ruthman in Sandisfield, MA - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Brigitte Ruthman in Sandisfield, MA

Brigitte Ruthman, dairy farmer and investigative reporter It’s rare that I get to interview a cheesemaker in person, par...

Paula Barnett in Princeton, Texas - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Paula Barnett in Princeton, Texas

We first contacted Paula when she made a comment at our Pimento Cheese post. In it, she shared her Texas family version ...

Jonathan Groner in Bexley, Ohio - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Jonathan Groner in Bexley, Ohio

Dr. Jon Groner The most interesting people in the world are home cheese makers. Because we know this and because people...

Doug Hively in Tucson, Arizona: Making Yogurt - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Doug Hively in Tucson, Arizona: Making Yogurt

Doug Hively We were delighted when Doug wrote to us about his yogurt experiences (and triumphs). We knew you would want ...

3 New Videos From the Biegel Family - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

3 New Videos From the Biegel Family

Screen shot from the cheddar video of Breanne and Brooklyn wrapping their cheeses. The Biegel family (of 11) in Grovedal...

Exciting New Membership Club for Cheesemakers! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Exciting New Membership Club for Cheesemakers!

We think this is a real breakthrough for home cheesemakers! Kate Johnson at The Art of Cheese in Longmont, Colorado is of...

Imran Saleh Update - The Pandemic in Pakistan - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Imran Saleh Update - The Pandemic in Pakistan

Imran in August Imran’s last 7 years have been quite an adventure and it has been our honor to post many articles about...

Cathy Bergstrom in Greensboro, North Carolina - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cathy Bergstrom in Greensboro, North Carolina

We’ve been in Greensboro for 17 years. I grew up in Portland, ME and met my husband in college in Milwaukee, WI. From t...

Jamie Ryer's New Adventure - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Jamie Ryer's New Adventure

In Hawaii last February Last September we posted our interview with Jamie Ryer, a master cheesemaker in Fairfax, Virgini...

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