Farewell to all you Cricket Creek cheese lovers out there! Without your support for this farm and it’s peculiarly delicious cheeses I would’ve never had this lovely and amazing dairy to be training ground. I feel loads wiser then when I came here thanks to the incredible quality milk-as-medium that the Sabots, Mathew and Suzy gave …
If you have been to Cricket Creek farm in the past year, or if you have shopped at the Northampton, Manchester, or Troy market this year, it is likely that you have seen the friendly smiling faces of Mike & Nicole. This creative farming couple has been working with us since last March, and this …
This is a big transition time on the farm; the apprentices from the previous year are leaving and the next year of apprentices are joining us. I am excited to say that we have some incredibly focused, hard working wonderful folks joining us at Cricket Creek this year. They each have fascinating and unique stories, incredibly diverse …
When I’m not working at Cricket Creek, one of the things I like to do best is visit other farms. I believe it is important to be constantly exposing myself to other systems, infrastructure, equipment, marketing strategies, etc. Not only is it important, but it is fun and incredibly interesting. Last week I went for the …
On Thursday evening I had the pleasure to attend the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Raw Milk Network. The Network is a program of NOFA/Mass, and it provides support to all the licensed raw milk dairies in the state of Massachusetts (I believe there are 27). Winton Pictoff, who is the coordinator of the network …