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Always learning something… – September 2016
Winning ribbons, attending cheese guild classes and grateful for rain showers. The September update from Clover Creek Cheese Cellar.
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Attending ACS 2016 – August 2016
Our pastures have turned brown during the month of July. We’ve only had a few scattered showers all month except for the last weekend of July. The inch of rainfall should help the pastures grow a little again. We’ve still been feeding the cows stored dry hay. We need a Read more…
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Cheddar by any other name – July 2016
The cows and calves enjoy the grass and the sunshine, but we need more rain to keep the grass going. The cows move pretty quickly through the pastures now as the grass slows down. We’ve already filled up our two hay barns to have enough hay for the winter. We’ve Read more…
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Growing Calves and Grass – June 2016
We finally had our last calf for the year on last Thursday afternoon, putting our milking herd at 73 for the summer. That is up about ten cows from last year so we may have to sell a few cows to make sure we don’t overflow the cheese vat. We Read more…
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A Busy Spring | April 2016
Spring started out slow for us this year, with only half as many calves born in March as last year. As slow as March seemed to be last month, April was our crazy busy month this spring. We just had our sixtieth calf born on Saturday so we only have Read more…
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A New Cheese Vat | April 2015
This was supposed to be our April 2014 newsletter, but we were too busy last spring to get this newsletter finished. If you want to find out why, read our December newsletter. We just decided, when we finally had time to sit down and catch up, that this story should be Read more…
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Creamery Changes – December 2014
Our goal for this year was to send out a newsletter each month of 2014. Since we sent the last one out in March, you can see how close we approached our goal. We have a good excuse though, as you will read in the rest of this newsletter. We’ve been changing walls, moving Read more…
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Calving Season | March 2014
It’s been a long cold winter at our farm and the cold weather seems to still want to stay. March is the busiest month of the year for us when we are dealing with many new baby calves, but this year it started out fairly slow. Our first calf wasn’t born Read more…
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A Trip to Argentina | February 2014
Last year, we applied for the Better Cheese for Pittsburgh education grant from Slow Food Pittsburgh, which provides winning cheesemakers with funds to develop a new cheese or, in our case, learn and refine skills in the art of making cheese. In our original application we wrote, “We have been Read more…
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Winter is here | January 2014
Snow covers the ground, temperatures are dropping, and Clover Creek has frozen over several times this past month. Of course, this also means that the milking parlor pipes and hoses are often frozen when we want to start milking. That’s one reason why we look forward to drying off all Read more…