Where is the cheese made?
We make and age the cheese right on the farm. We use only our own (now Organic!) raw milk, free of hormones, steroids, and antibiotics, to make flavor-intense live cheeses. Our organic cheese varieties are Gouda, Edam, Leyden (with caraway seeds), Onion 'n Garlic, Country Dill, and Lamont Cheddar. |
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Is it safe?
There are several things we do to make sure the raw-milk cheese is safe:
1) We keep our cows outside in their natural environment. This keeps them much cleaner than packed together in a barn. Animals outside, like ours are, are much healthier than those cooped up in a barn.
2) When we make the cheese, both the milk (a sample from each time we make cheese) and each batch of cheese are tested to make sure there is no harmful bacteria in it.
3) When making raw-milk cheese, what makes it cheese is a certain bacteria, or culture. That one culture takes over the whole wheel of cheese, allowing no other harmful bacteria to grow in that cheese at all.
4) When we cut up a wheel of cheese, we know that it's a good wheel which the culture has taken over the whole wheel. How do we know? By the smell, the taste, and the texture. If there is more than the intended culture in the wheel of cheese, it will look, smell, or taste wrong to us, and we dispose of it. |
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What's so great about raw-milk?
Raw milk cheese, in addition to having more vitamins and digestible minerals in it, has a more intense flavor than cheese made from pasteurized milk. In fact, to make cheese from pasteurized milk, a cheesemaker must add calcium!
For more information, please check out this website. For info about fresh milk, go Here. |
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| Before 1950, Americans could buy fresh, raw, whole milk and its products. Today, people who only drink pasteurized milk have more health problems than people who drink raw milk: from asthma to allergies to lactose sensitivity and intolerance. In fact, most people who are lactose sensitive (or sometimes even those with an intolerance) can have raw milk and/or its products with lessened or even no adverse effects! |
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