We can finally answer yes to the most popular question you sent us this month: Do you have raw milk yet? Eighteen new baby calves are here as of this morning, so we have plenty of milk for calves and customers. We are planning on attending Boalsburg Farmers Market on Read more…
Travel with Dave and Terry to Bogota as they visit a Colombian Buffalo farm, enjoy a raclette restaurant and learn from an artisan gouda cheesemaker
As dairy farmers who wake up with the sun, we don’t often stay up late, even for New Year’s Eve. I think we were all asleep by 11 o’clock this year. Our one tradition for the new year is to make soft pretzels. We shape a few of the pretzels Read more…
Cookies are my favorite afternoon snack any time of the year. I usually grab one (or two) and a glass of milk before I head out to milk the cows. The cookie selection always increases this time of year when we are getting ready for Christmas parties and family gatherings. Read more…
On our farm in central Pennsylvania, we get to experience the full swing of seasonal changes. We watch the spring rain turn our pastures green and experience the lush growth of summer grass. We enjoy the cooler breezes of autumn as the ridge behind our farm turns shades of red, Read more…
When we started making cheese, we packaged each retail wedge by coating it in wax. We burned our fingers a few times dipping the cheese, but packaging this way wasn’t too difficult. Then a few customers complained that the wax would crack and later they would find mold underneath. We Read more…
Affinage is a French word that refers to caring for cheese as it ages. The aging process is where our cheese matures and develops its awesome flavor. We make our cheeses in an artisan European style. Cheese factories suffocate cheese in vacuum pack bags right after they come out of Read more…
Rennet, curds, whey, cheddaring. As you may have noticed throughout this series, cheese making has its own special vocabulary. Before I can explain the next steps in cheesemaking there are two more words that I need to define. Hoops are the containers we use to mold the curds into a Read more…
Did you know that in cheesemaking, cheddaring is a verb? Cheddaring is a process that cheesemakers use to further acidify the curds and draw more whey out. This process is what allows cheddar cheese to last a long time. But, before we can get to the cheddaring process, first we Read more…