written by Matthew Ball Soil is everything that matters to all of us. Whether you are a vegetarian or a diehard carnivore, if the soil that your food grows in and on is not healthful, then there is little left to sustain you for very long. Organic matter is soil’s ultimate buffer to stress and …
Cricket Creek Farm wins blue ribbon from American Cheese Society Small farmstead creamery receives national recognition Williamstown, MA – August 6, 2012 – Cricket Creek Farm, a diversified grass-based dairy, received a first place award in the Farmstead Cheeses category for hard cow’s milk cheeses at the American Cheese Society’s 28th annual competition last week. …
Hi all – Suzy here. I wanted to take this blogging opportunity to share the various (gorgeous) faces of the farm. I am grateful to work with some pretty spectacular people here at Cricket Creek. Every day I feel lucky that I am surrounded by creative, hard-working, driven, and FUN folks. What great people to …
written by Nicole Warren At the farmer’s market every week, I get customers that ask me about FAT, and want to know the fat content of our cheese. Fat is a word that, in this society, has received a bad reputation. It is a misunderstood building block to life, in which all living things are made up of and …
One of the best parts of the Vermont Cheesemakers Festival is watching the faces of the people who try our cheese. And of course, hearing them talk about cheese. If I had a polaroid camera, I would have tried to snap a shot of each unsuspecting person as they tried a sample. I say unsuspecting because …