Our Cave to Co-op cheese for August 2019 is a Greek-style, fresh brined, goat milk feta cheese from Vermont Creamery in Websterville, Vermont. Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery was started by two young visionaries devoted to new and non-traditional agriculture, Allison Hooper and Bob Reese. As a college student, Allison spent a summer traveling in […]
Our Cave to Co-op cheese for July 2019 is a collaborative effort between Spring Brook Farm in Reading, Vermont and Crown Finish Caves in Brooklyn, NY. This 30-pound Alpine-style cheese is traditionally handmade in a copper vat and washed in brine for one year to encourage the development of beneficial microflora. Crack into one of […]
Our Cave to Co-op cheese for June 2019 is Smoked Artisan Gouda from Shadagee Farm in Craftsbury Common, Vermont. Cheesemaker Marjorie Urie and family live and work on their Shadagee Farmstead in Craftsbury Common. Brett and Marjorie took over the family farm in 2001 after 12 years farming with Brett’s parents. In 2009 they built […]
Our Cave to Co-op cheese for May 2019 is Lake’s Edge from Blue Ledge Farm in Salisbury, Vermont. Hannah and Greg believe in a food system that is based on a cornerstone of respect for the land, the animals and the consumer as well as the local community. They both celebrate the opportunity to raise […]
Our Cave to Co-op cheese for April 2019 is Mad River Blue from the von Trapp Farmstead, Waitsfield, Vermont. From 1959, when Werner and Erika von Trapp purchased the von Trapp Farm, it has been a working dairy. Over the course of three generations, the farm has transitioned to a certified organic dairy and in […]
Our Cave to Co-op cheese for March 2019 is Sugar Slalom from Mt. Mansfield Creamery, Morrisville, Vermont. Mt. Mansfield Creamery is located four miles from the farm where the cows live. Stan Bisini transports their milk to the creamery on cheese making days. Debora Bisini milks about 30 cows per day and has received awards […]
Our Cave to Co-op cheese for February 2019 is Grafton Clothbound from Grafton Village Cheese, Grafton, Vermont. The Grafton Village Cheese Company was founded in 1892 as the Grafton Cooperative Cheese Company, to convert surplus milk from local dairy farmers into cheese. In 1912, the cheesemaking factory burned down and the community had no cheese […]
Our Cave to Co-op cheese for January 2019 is Dorset—Raw Cow Milk Cheese from Consider Bardwell Farm, West Pawlet, Vermont. Spanning the rolling hills of Vermont’s Champlain Valley and easternmost Washington County, New York, 300-acre Consider Bardwell Farm was the first cheese-making co-op in Vermont, founded in 1864 by Consider Stebbins Bardwell himself. A century […]
Our Cave to Co-op cheese for December 2018 is TWIG TOMME from Twig Farm in West Cornwall, Vermont. Twig Farm is owned by Michael Lee and Emily Sunderman and has been in business since 2005. The twenty-acre farm is located in West Cornwall, Vermont, about 10 miles south of Middlebury. Michael manages the herd of […]
Our Cave to Co-op cheese for August 2018 is BUTTER CHEDDAR from Billings Farm in Woodstock, Vermont. Billings Farm was established in 1871 by Frederick Billings, a native Vermonter known for his work as a lawyer, railroad builder, and pioneer in scientific farm management and reforestation. Billings set out to make his 270-acre Woodstock farm […]
