Have you tried our butter? In addition to the cheese that we make in our creamery, we have been making butter for about a year now. Recently it has become available from our farm store. Our butter is a deep rich yellow color, sweet, complex, and creamy. We sell it in small tubs, so you …
Every Thursday we cut all the cheese in preparation for the weekend farmers markets. We typically cut 50 – 100 lbs of each of our cheeses to sell at the markets. Each piece of cheese is 1/4 to 1/2 lb and gets individually wrapped. With four people working on it, we can generally get all …
A few weeks ago I had a visitor staying with me – my parent’s new puppy. She is 1/2 black poodle and 1/2 golden retriever (you can see the black poodle part dominates). She is just 3 months old, and named Charlie. I was hesitant about how she would react to the cows, and how …
Cara makes the Berkshire Bloom, Hillside, and Cricket Creek Fresh. She has the dynamic job of making three different cheeses on one day – since they are our three cheeses made from pasteurize milk we separate the milk for the three recipes after it is all pasteurized together. The day after these cheeses are made, …
If you ever head back to the calf nursery (the back barn) at night, you will likely see this white hen sitting on the pens. She seems to sit there every night, watching the calves as they sleep. I like to think of her as the calf watchbird – keeping tabs on all the little …