The Maine Cheese Guild Presents Open Creamery Day 2016
Sunday, October 9th from 10am to 3pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:
Arlene Brokaw and Jessie Dowling
Maine Cheese Guild
events@mainecheeseguild.org
Ph: (978) 471-8399
As
the hardwood foliage bursts in a blaze of colors on Columbus Day weekend, take
in the spectacular sights and taste some award-winning cheese during the Maine
Cheese Guild's annual Open Creamery Day. Visit many of Maine's cheese makers in
their creameries, meet the animals, and learn the stories behind Maine's more
than 150 artisan cheeses. Along the way you can also visit a farmers' market,
stop at an orchard, explore one of Maine's premier breweries or wineries, pick
fruit at Maine's legendary orchards, and drop-in on one of the many artisan
bread makers our state has to offer. You'll love the views, and the taste of
Maine cheese, straight from the source, will be the best memory of all!
For
a MAP and an updated list of
participating cheese makers, visit www.mainecheeseguild.org
Participating Cheesemakers:
Appleton Creamery
Caitlin & Bradley Hunter
780 Gurney Town Road, Appleton ME 04862
appletoncreamery@gmail.com
www.appletoncreamery.com
Visit the goats and sample the award-winning cheese at Appleton Creamery in
Appleton, and enjoy the whole goat experience. Cheese is handcrafted daily
using traditional methods with milk from our herd of Alpine goats, and local cow dairies. Joining us this year for GOATAPALOOZA will
be Copper Tail Farm with goat milk caramels, cajeta and yogurt, Sisters
Soap with goat milk soap, Dragonfly Cove Farm goat meat products, and Back
Forty Breads. Local spinner Penelope Olson will be spinning goat
fiber. The pizza oven will be cooking!
Barred Owl
Creamery
Patti and Chris Hamilton
6 South Fowles Lane, Whitefield ME 04353
hamiltonfarm03@yahoo.com
Experience award-winning organic cheese
(best in the nation goat/sheep farmstead feta) on a beautiful farm in Whitefield. Meet the goats and
sheep, tour Barred Owl Creamery and visit our farm store full of homemade products including baked
products. For more than 15 years we have hand-milked our Fresian sheep and Nubian cross goats – and
produced MOFGA-certified organic feta, chevre and blue cheeses. We also have laying hens &
heritage breed turkeys. We live in the heart of central Maine’s agricultural hub of Whitefield – only 6
miles from Sheepscot General Store, Fuzzy Udder and several other cheese
producers.
Balfour Farm
435 Webb Rd, Pittsfield ME 04967
207-213-3159
Balfour Farm produces certified organic
yogurts, soft cheeses and aged raw milk cheeses from a small herd of Normande
and Normande Cross cattle. In 2016, we added goats to the farm and are
making a limited amount of goat cheeses as well. We hope you can come
visit our new off the grid dairy and creamery!
*in the event of rainy weather in the days
leading up to OCD, you may need to park near the road and walk to the farm*
Fredrikson Farm
60 Danforth Road, China
Village ME 04926
http://www.fredriksonfarm.com/
https://www.facebook.com/fredriksonfarm?fref=ts
Come join all the festivities at
Fredrikson Farm, enjoy a farm tour and take a stroll on our beautiful walking
trails. Experience Alpaca with the
Northern Solstice Alpaca Farm from Unity.
We will be joined by Younity Winery and Tree Spirits Winery with wine
tasting. Boynton-Mckay Food Co. from
Camden will be providing their amazing cuisine.
Live music by the Oshima Brothers who will be providing "upbeat
folk - sibling harmonies."
From
the Country Farm
23 Austin Rd, Leeds ME 04263
207-212-9911
https://www.facebook.com/FromtheCountryFarm/
http://www.fromthecountryfarm.com/
From the Country Farm is a small goat dairy
located in Leeds Maine. Come visit our herd of Nubian and Saanen goats that are
an integral part of the team. Our cheeses are made in small
batches daily with great attention to detail and taste. We will be sampling
some of our more popular flavors and introducing a few new cheeses as
well. The farm store will be open with a great selection of soap, lotions
and gift sets handmade here on the farm.
Fuzzy Udder Creamery
Jessie
Dowling, cheesemaker-farmer-activist
35 Townhouse Road,
Whitefield ME 04353
fuzzyudder@gmail.com
www.fuzzyudder.com
https://www.facebook.com/FuzzyUdderCreamery/
Fuzzy Udder Creamery currently milks 16
sheep and 12 goats and buys organic cows’ milk from Two Loons Farm in South
China. Our animals are raised on pasture, fed organic grain and Maine grown
oats and given lots and lots of love. We make a variety of fresh, soft-ripened
and aged cheeses from cow, sheep and goat milk. Come snuggle our fuzzy critters
and taste our cheeses!
Imagine Dairy Farm
Arlene
Brokaw
716
Highland Rd. Warren ME. 04864
imaginedairyfarm@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/imaginedairyfarm
978-471-8399
Arlene and Russ of Imagine Dairy Farm welcome you to visit our
small farm and creamery in the midcoast of Maine! We have a small herd of
lovable dairy goats for you to meet. We produce "extra-fine" fresh
cheese spreads, aged cow's milk cheese and our own goat milk and yogurt. We
will be sampling our cheeses, milk and lamb and goat meat. Come meet the cheese
maker and cuddle some goats while enjoying the beautiful fall colors. Our farm
will be open all day and our cheeses, dairy products and lamb and goat meat
will be available for purchase. If weather permits, we'll take the goats out
for a walk through the fields and woods!
Kennebec Cheesery at Koons Farm
795 Pond Road, Sidney ME 04330
Kennebeccheesery@gmail.com
www.KennebecCheesery.com
Licensed in 2008 with 10 goats we have expanded to an in-line milking system with PV panels on the cheesery roof and now milk 42 Alpine and Saanen cross goats. Come see the "working girls" and this year's J-doelings and taste the delicious soft and hard cheeses we make from their milk. Many fun recipes provided. We also have a flock of Katahdin sheep who love apples. Come feed Bambi, CoCo, Snow White and the others.
ME Water Buffalo Co.
Brian & Jessica Farrar & family
232 Old County Road, Appleton ME
www.mewaterbuffaloco.com
mewaterbuffaloco@gmail.com
Come visit Maine's only herd of water buffalo. At our state licensed dairy, we specialize in our fresh hand-stretched buffalo mozzarella along with other fresh buffalo cheeses & our creamy yogurt & gelato-all made with our own water buffalo milk. Pasture hayrides throughout the day to see the water buffalo up close. Some of our fresh buffalo cheeses will be available at our farm store to sample & purchase along with our other farm products. Pet the baby buffalo calves & feed our pet goats.
Pumpkin Vine Family Farm
217 Hewett Rd, Somerville ME 04348
(207) 549 - 3096 - Kelly
(207) 215 - 4319 - Anil
info@pumpkinvinefamilyfarm.com
https://www.facebook.com/pumpkinvinefamilyfarm
http://www.pumpkinvinefamilyfarm.com
Seal Cove Farm ***open at 11am***
Barbara Brooks
202 Partridge Cove Road, Lamoine ME 04605
207-667-7127
sales@mainegoatcheese.com
www.mainegoatcheese.com
Fresh and aged goat cheese. Our high producing herd of 125 goats is our foundation. We have been making and selling cheese since 1980. Our commitment to producing the highest quality milk, an element in superior cheeses, continues. Come and sample our gelato and our own pizza made in a wood fired oven.
State of Maine Cheese Company
461 Commercial Street, Rockport ME 04856
Telephone: (local) 207-236-8895
(toll free) 800-762-8895
Fax: 207-236-9591
contact@cheese-me.com
www.cheese-me.com
Nestled in the heart of Mid-Coast Maine, State of Maine Cheese Company is a small business that has been handcrafting fine cheeses since 1983. Since we started creating cheese in Maine over 30 years ago, we have cherished our partnership with our dairy farmers. Our relationship with Oakhurst Dairy allows us to hand-pick the farms we receive milk from, principally from Springdale Jerseys in Waldo, Maine a four generation farm with 400 Jersey and Guernsey cows that produce the picture perfect milk for making cheese. We are also organically certified and work with Maine organic farmers directly.
We are the home of the Rockport Marketplace where we carry many fine products made right here in Maine and beyond. On days that we are making cheese, customers can watch our cheesemaker at work making cheese in our production room. Our retail store hours are 9 am – 6 pm Monday – Saturday and Sunday Noon – 4 pm.
Sunflower Farm Creamery
Hope Hall
12 Harmon Way, Cumberland, ME 04021
207-829-8347
www.facebook.com/sunflowerfarmcreamery
www.sunflowerfarm.info
Sunflower Farm looks forward to welcoming visitors on Open Creamery Day! Chris and Hope Hall (English Teachers at Thornton Academy & Cheese Maker at Sunflower Farm Creamery) and daughters Tess and Lila, produce delicious goat products made in small daily batches from the milk of 18 Nigerian Dwarf Dairy goats. Their products are sold at Walnut Hill Market in North Yarmouth, at Eventide Epicurean Specialties in Boothbay and on weekends April-Jan. from their self serve farm fridge. (You may have seen their goat kids on YouTube in "The Running of the Goats” or “Goat Babies in Pajamas” or “Lola the Chihuahua & the Goat Kids Daily Playtime”.) The goats are even sweeter in person! Come try feta, chevre, caramels, fudge and cajeta, visit with the goats in the field and enjoy a mini farmers market celebrating goat milk products! [Please note, we will have limited supplies of our products since we are a small farm, so come early in the day for the greatest selection!]
Winter Hill Farm
Steve Burger and Sarah Wiederkehr
35 Hill Farm Road, Freeport, ME 04032
207-869-5122
winterhillfarmer@gmail.com
www.winterhillfarm.com
Set atop a hill surrounded by woods and rolling pasture in the beautiful southern mid-coast region of Maine, Winter Hill Farm is a small, family run farm in Freeport. We manage a herd of very rare Randall cattle along with a few Jerseys, and operate a small farmstead creamery producing raw milk, yogurt, and artisanal cheeses. We make fresh cheeses (ricotta, fromage blanc and feta) as well as aged, raw milk cheeses, mold-ripened and washed rind cheeses. We also raise Berkshire pigs, laying hens, and seasonal vegetables for markets and a CSA. Come visit the animals, meet the farmers, and learn about their craft. And of course, try some cheese.
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