OPEN CREAMERY DAY Sunday, October 7th From 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. 2007
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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
Echo Ridge Farmstead Cheese
Barbara Skapa
P.O. Box 248, Mt. Vernon, ME 04352
207-293-2866
Located in Belgrade Lakes area, producing organic cows' milk cheeses, mostly mold-ripened and some fresh cheeses. Address is 2080 North Road, Mt Vernon, just up from our Fire Station.
Garden Lore
Lore Lipkvich,Owner/Farmer
40 Blueberry Lane, Mariaville, ME 04605
207-537-5673 or 207-537-3365
garden_lore@prodigy.net or chowderpatch@prodigy.net
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 7!
Harmony Mill Farm – *** Please note hours are 12:30p.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 – ***UP AND RUNNING SOON IN 2007***
Jean and Peter Koons, Owners
795 Pond Rd., Sidney, ME 04330
207-547-4171
www.kennebeccheeesery.com
kennebeccheesery@gmail.com
On the road to becoming licensed. Come visit and see how the cheeseroom is coming along!
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.
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.
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
At Smiling Hill Farm
Jennifer Betancourt, Cheesemaker/Co-owner
781 County Rd., Westbrook, ME 04092
207-775-4818 x55
www.silverymooncheese.com
Jennifer@silverymooncheese.com
View mozzarella stretching and cloth bandaging. See where we make the cheese and enjoy a hot cup of cider. Take a wagon ride through the woods and see our little coldsmoker. Chat with the folks who make the cheese, and sample cheeses of different ages and methods of affinage. Hope to see you there!
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.
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.nets
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
21 Kennedy Lane
Greenwood, ME 04255
207-527-2527
Goat cheese, including untraditional feta.
Winter Hill Farm
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.
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