Central Valley - Loop #3
3 Locations | 74 Miles
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Starting in the town of Clovis, book online for a Saturday visit to Rocky Oaks Goat Creamery, where you can visit with the goats, get a cheese tasting and purchase cheese. Occasionally, they even have a goat yoga class (ooh!). From there, it’s a short hop to Raw Farm, a raw cow dairy. Again, make sure to check their website before heading out to find tour information and shop hours. And finally, head another half an hour south to Vintage Cheese, a mini-Knotts Berry Farm with antiques and junktiques, animals and a shop full of goodies, picnic tables. If you’re there at the right time, you can watch cheesemaking through the window.
Open Directions in Google Maps01Rocky Oaks Goat Creamery
Joel and Margie Weber founded their creamery with the goal to prepare handmade, small-batch Farmstead cheese from their closed herd of goats. The cheese is good and the goats are happy.Seasonal (Spring thru Fall) tours, cheese tastings, and events including Pumpking Patch in October are held. They also have monthly Farm to Table Dinner events. Check their website for details on farm tours and cheese tastings held Spring through Fall.
02Raw Farm USA
In the late 1990s the McAfee family made the decision to farm the entire property that is now the green pastures for Raw Farm USA. Cows are milked in the pasture using a mobile milk barn. The farm became organic in early 2000.
03Vintage Cheese
A mini-Knotts Berry Farm with antiques and junktiques, animals and a shop full of goodies, picnic tables. Vintage Cheese makes on average 15 to 20 types of cheese, producing up to 400,000 pounds a year. They’ve branched out to include cheese made from goat and sheep milk, yet another element that makes Vintage Cheese unique. If you time it correctly, you can watch them making cheese through the window.
