2nd Annual OPEN CREAMERY DAY Sunday, October 12th From 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. 2008
Open Creamery Day 2009: The Sunday of Columbus Day Weekend (October 11th, 2009)
What better reason for a fall road trip to Maine? Visit the creameries, meet the animals and learn the stories behind Maine’s more than 150 artisan cheeses. While you’re at it visit a farmers’ market, stop at an orchard, make a stop at one of Maine’s premier breweries and visit one of the many artisan breadmakers our state has to offer. Make a food pilgrimage to Maine. You’ll love the views, but you’ll remember the taste!
Participating Cheesemakers
Appleton Creamery
Caitlin Hunter, Owner
780 Gurney Town Road
Appleton, ME 04862
www.appletoncreamery.com
Appleton Creamery is a small scale family farm in Appleton, Maine. Small
batches of award winning cheese are hand crafted daily using traditional
methods and milk from our Alpine dairy goats. We create a wide variety of fresh
and aged cheeses, marketed primarily at Farmers Markets. Limited wholesale. In
2004 we added limited production of sheep milk cheeses.
Blue Yonder Creamery
Carol Godfrey
300 Eight Rod Road
Waterville, ME 04901
692-0381
Small batches of feta made with organic cow’s milk from a neighboring dairy farm. Newly licensed in 2008.
Fern Hill Farm
Robert and Amy Jensen, Owners
150 Wiley Road, Naples, ME 04055
207-693-4320
Fresh goat’s milk chevre. Plain and with herbs. Cheese is available wholesale and locally at natural and gourmet food shops.
Garden Lore
Lore Lipkvich,Owner/Farmer
40 Blueberry Lane, Mariaville, ME 04605
207-537-5673 or 207-537-3365
Garden Lore is located on the banks of Tannery Brook in Mariaville, ME. Here you will see our farm animals which include goats ranging in age from 4 months to 7 years. The farm also has ducks, chickens and a rabbit. Taste the farmstead cheeses made here: several flavored chevres, feta and ricotta. Many chevres are flavored with the herbs grown right here on the farm. Hope to see you on Oct 12th!
Harmony Mill Farm – *** Please note hours are 1p.m. - 3p.m. ***
Deb Dik, Distribution
133 Mill Lane, Waltham, ME 04605
207-584-2035
Organic Jersey dairy with fresh glass bottled milk and farmstead cheese.
The Kennebec Cheesery
Jean and Peter Koons, Owners
795 Pond Rd., Sidney, ME 04330
207-547-4171
www.kennebeccheeesery.com
kennebeccheesery@gmail.com
Newly licensed in 2008! Making semi-soft and hard cheeses using certified organic milk from our neighbor’s grass-fed Jersey cows.
Liberty Fields Farm
Anne and Joel Tripp
238 Flag Pond Road
Saco, ME 04072-9636
207-282-0967
libertyfields@maine.rr.com
Liberty Fields Farm premiered their goat cheese in 2005 in a new state licensed facility on their 10 acre family operated farm. Small batches of cheese from their herd of 18 Nubian goats are produced daily and include various flavors of fresh chevre as well as feta, marinated buttons, and Saco Bay Dusk and Saco Bay Mist, a bloomy rind with or without an ash coating.
Little Falls Farm
John and Mary Belding, Cheesemakers
250 Walker Mills Road, Harrison, ME 04040
207-583-6047
Artisanal, MOFGA certified organic, farmstead raw milk aged goat cheese, made from the milk of our hand milked herd.
Longfellow's Creamery at Second Chance Farm
Kathy Trodden, Owner/Cheesemaker
PO Box 431, Phillips, ME 04966
207-639-2074 or 207-639-2119
Farmstead raw milk gouda, cheddar, and camembert, plus fresh mozz, feta, and yogurts. Come taste some cheese and visit the cows and calves.
Olde Oak Farm
Scott Belanger and Jennifer Macverde, Managing Partners
222 Forest Ave., Orono, ME 04473
207-866-7719
Goat, sheep and organic cow cheeses
We currently have about 30 Nubian goats and produce cheese for farmers markets from their milk. We also produce cheese from Organic cow milk and buy in occasional sheep milk for specialty batches of cheese. Unique to our cheesemaking is that it all takes place in a 12'X32' Cheese plant that is completely mobile.
Painted Pepper Farm
Lisa Reilich
55 Goods Point Road, PO Box 203
Steuben, ME 04680
207 546-9777
ppfarm@downeast.net
www.paintedpepperfarm.com
Painted Pepper Farm, a saltwater family farm nestled in a downeast coastal
woodland, produces a delicious goat's milk yogurt year-round exclusively from
our organically managed herd of Nigerian dairy goats. Other dairy delights --
fudge, ice cream & chevre -- are available seasonally.
Pineland Farms Creamery
Mark Whitney, Creamery Manager
92 Creamery Ln., New Gloucester, ME 04260
207-688-6400
207-688-6411
Tour the creamery and taste a wide array of samples.
Seal Cove Farm
Barbara Brooks
202 Partridge Cove Rd., Lamoine, ME 04605
207-667-7127
sealcovefarm@midmaine.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.
Silvery Moon Creamery
Jennifer Betancourt, Cheesemaker/Co-owner
781 County Rd., Westbrook, ME 04092
207-775-4818 x 124
www.silverymooncheese.com
Jennifer@silverymooncheese.com
See fresh mozzarella being stretched and cheddar being bandaged in cloth. See where we make the cheese and enjoy a cup of cider. Chat with the folks who make the cheese, and sample cheeses of different ages and methods of affinage. Hope to see you there!
Spring Day Creamery
Sarah Spring, Owner
42 Day Road, Durham, ME 04222
springdaycreamery@me.com
Fresh, mold-ripened, and aged cheeses from locally-produced goat and cow’s milk; hand-crafted in a galley-sized cheese room.
State of Maine Cheese Co.
Cathe Morrill, Owner
461 Commercial St., Rockport, ME 04556
207-236-8895/800-762-8895
Hand crafted natural and organic cheeses - Cheddars, Monterey Jack (plain & spiced), Caerphilly, Colby and Derby
Sunset Acres Farm
Anne Bossi & Bob Bowen
769 Bagaduce Road, Brooksville, ME 04617
cheesewhiz@wildmoo.net
207 326-4741
Using the milk from our herd of 65 dairy goats, we make many different kinds of fresh and aged cheeses. We also sell raw and pasteurized bottled milk.
Tourmaline Hill Farm ***Different time, please call for Open Creamery hours***
21 Kennedy Lane
Greenwood, ME 04255
207-527-2527
Goat cheese, including untraditional feta.
Townhouse Farm
Beth Whitman
35 Townhouse Rd
Whitefield, ME 04353
207-549-5670
ewegurt@gmail.com
Sheep's milk yogurt ("Ewegurt") - plain and maple, Yogurt made from organic Jersey cows ("Moogurt") - plain and maple, Feta cheese, Halloumi (Cypriot frying cheese), Ballstown 1790 (a mild aged cheese)
Winter Hill Farm ***Different day, please call for Open Creamery hours ***
Jim Stampone & Kate Le Royer
35 Hill Farm Rd., Freeport, ME 04032
207-865-4813
All natural raw milk and yogurt and cheeses from very rare Randall Lineback Cattle.
To find Maine cheese at farmers’ markets, and in shops around the state and beyond, please visit www.mainecheeseguild.org