Meet Pedrozo Dairy, a small family run farmstead cheesemaker.

Pedrozo Dairy & Cheese Co. started a little more than 20 years ago in Orland, with their raw milk cheese made from their tiny herd of around 20 cows of various, little known breeds, which graze in the fields between their house, the barn and the creamery. This place is special. 

Northern Gold is a semi firm, rich and creamy cow’s milk cheese.

Black Butte Reserve is a cheese only made in the spring and is aged for 6 months. A robust cheese with sharp and grassy flavors

They also have feta, peppercorn, garlic & herb and sweet italian red pepper flavored cheese.

Reach out to Tim, Jill, Tom or Laura to learn more about their cheese and farm! Or visit them on Raw Milk Cheese Day or at when the Sierra Oro Farm Trail is open.

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Sue Conley and Peggy Smith, who together started and founded Cowgirl Creamery in 1997, are retiring.

These two wonderful women not only pioneered the resurgence of artisan cheese, but changed the face of West Marin agriculture by promoting the idea that chefs showcase local farm products.

Forever grateful for what they’ve done, including bringing us those iconic cheeses like MT TAM and Red Hawk. They will continue their good works through various nonprofits.

Thank you for all that you have done!

Visit this father and daughter cheese maker tandem in Escalon in California’s Central Valley

Rick and daughter, Anastasia Stuyt, are the cheese makers.

Only a small percentage of the milk produced on the dairy is used to make an Artisanal Farmstead Raw Milk Cheese. Their cheese is best described as a Dutch cheese, which is handmade from their farm’s raw cow milk.

Stuyt cheese is aged a minimum of 60 days; yet, preferred 90 days, for the best flavor.

🧀 Pictured here are:

1) El Capitan, a fully aged raw cow’s milk Spanish style cheese.

2) Diamond Reserve, a raw cow’s milk gouda style cheese aged over 9 months.

3) Mild raw cow’s milk gouda aged 2-4 months.

Visit their shop daily or order online! Yum! Support your local cheese maker!

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Here’s a little interview with Joe Matos Cheese by Anita Anderson of Discover Sonoma County Living

Joe Matos Cheese Bio

Joe and Mary Matos, 5th generation Portuguese cheesemakers, immigrated to the United States from the lush volcanic island of Sao Jorge, Azores in the 60’s and started making their family recipe for a cheese native to their homeland, St. Jorge in 1979 on their farm in the Laguna de Santa Rosa.

Today, the 7th generation of the Matos family is honored to continue the tradition of organic pasture- based biodynamic farming, milking our herd of 35 Holstein, Jersey and crossbred dairy cows, utilizing food waste diversion, raising all of our beef on our farm and hand making our Portuguese family’s raw milk farmstead St. Jorge cheese daily.

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Currently owned and operated by 4th generation Mateo Fiscalini family members. Learn more about this Modesto based farmstead cheese maker in their video!

Their signature cheeses include a 14 month aged wrapped in cheesecloth Old World Aged Cheddar, a swiss alpine style cheese named Lionza and an Italian style semi-hard, raw cow’s milk cheese named San Joaquin Gold.

Visit Fiscalini Farmstead and order today!

The California Artisan Cheese Guild is pleased to announce the recipient of the 4th annual Jennifer Bice Artisan Dairy/Cheesemaker Grant Award. Nicolette Grill, owner of Mojave Gold Inc., a small goat dairy located in the high desert of Southern California, has been chosen from numerous CACG member applicants. Grill established Mojave Gold Inc.

In 2014 along the Mojave River, halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and milks 30 dairy goats on twenty-five acres of green pasture in the Mojave Desert. On her small-scale goat diary, she makes artisan goat cheese, goat’s milk caramel, USDA whey-fed heritage pork and USDA pasture-raised lamb.

This is the fourth annual grant award of $10,000 that Jennifer Bice, Founder of Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery, has so generously offered as a means to support and mentor newer cheesemakers and dairy farmers in California.

Bice helped establish the California Artisan Cheese Guild in 2006 and served as a founding board member. The grant award stipulates that the recipient be a CACG member, and that funds be used for creamery or farm infrastructure, or for education that relates to improving farming or business practices.

Let’s continue to support all cheesemakers and eat more cheese!

Meet Cowgirl Creamery’s Dairy Partners Collection!
 
All of their organic milk comes from pasture-based, family farms in Sonoma & Marin. This collection celebrates their incredible dairy partners, Bivalve Dairy and Straus Family Creamery, with rich, European-style butter, a unique hard cheese inspired by the Azores, and their beloved Red Hawk. 

Achadinha Cheese Co is now offering home deliveries in the Bay Area!

Get Cowpricious, Broncha and Herbie Curd directly to your doorstep!

Email Donna at achadinhacheese1955@gmail.com to place an order.

You can now order Nicolau Farms‘ Capra Stanisalus, Quattro Pepe and accompaniments online.

In addition, you can easily pick up a fresh made farm-house meal in their convenient drive-thru!

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Daily Driver SF innovates weekly new meal kits for pickup and delivery. This week they are featuring their Daily Driver Burger Meal Kit with their Tomales neighbors Stemple Creek grass fed all beef patties and their house-made potato brioche buns.

Also included are Jersey Jack Cheese, fresh veggies, house sauce and potato tots. Get your hands on these! You can also get their cheeses, butter and bagel anytime.

Pennyroyal Farm is now offering farmboxes for your weekly essentials.

You can choose what you would like in your box from a mixed bag of produce, eggs, farmstead chili, Pennyroyal cheeses, house made sourdough, etc!

Their wines are also available for delivery. Cheers!

Rumiano Cheese has restocked their online shop with their super cool California cutting boards.

Add this to your collection and try some of their Redwood Coast milk cheeses such as Sriracha Jack, Seoul Spice & Island Fire Dance. You can also order butter & ghee.

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