Learn How to Make Cheese

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.

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...

Laurie Higgins Making Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Laurie Higgins Making Cheese

My husband and I discovered artisan cheese two summers ago at a farmer's market in Londonderry, Vt. There we bought a Came...

Jim Wallace - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Jim Wallace

It has been a long road traveling in many directions, sometimes simultaneous, sound familiar. I began in pre-med but wound...

Andrea Lewis - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Andrea Lewis

Andrea is a new startup cheese maker and what drew her to my attention was the number of progressive questions she kept as...

Sister Joanna

Sister Joanna

Sister Joanna leads the sisters of this monastery in making their own cheese. From their small herd of 8 cows, the sisters...

Terry and Linda Clapp - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Terry and Linda Clapp

This is true Home or Farmstead cheese making on a small scale. Just to get started we would like to show you the before an...

Paul Lacinski and Amy Klippenstein - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Paul Lacinski and Amy Klippenstein

These are the real cheese makers, the four legged ones that provide that fabulous milk we use. No, not Paul and Amy, we ar...

Keith Brinch - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Keith Brinch

Greetings from New Zealand. I was born in Cape Town, South Africa in July 1951, so that makes me an 'old bugger.’ I am tra...

Reverand Yoginatha Swami - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Reverand Yoginatha Swami

Reverand Yoginatha Swami from Kauai Hindu Monastery. The monastery web site is a wonderful place to watch the progress as ...

Jorge "Mariano" Gonzalez - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Jorge "Mariano" Gonzalez

A visit with Mariano to see how he makes that famous bandaged cheddar. After meeting at the American Cheese Society conven...

John and Janine Putnam - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

John and Janine Putnam

John & Janine Putnam from Thistle Hill Farm in North Pomfret VT. Producing 'Tarentaise' Vermont Alpine Cheese. An aged...

Carol and Christina Lively - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Carol and Christina Lively

Carol Lively and her daughter Christina Lively Spring Farm Rowe MA. True Home/Farmstead cheese making on a small scale. Th...

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