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Welcome To The New Web Site

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This is the re-designed Maine Cheese Guild web site which is meant to encourage more communication among the Guild members, as well as to communicate better with Maine Cheese fans.

The old web site has been archived, but is not gone altogether yet. If you can’t find something in this site (try the new Search feature on the right!), you can browse the old site here. Please post a comment on this article if you find something that should be moved to this new site. Or post a comment with suggestions on improving this site.

If you’d like to post an article on this site, feel free! All Guild members can do so once they have registered on this site with a username and password. Once registered, cheese makers can also update their own page listing what cheeses they are making and where they can be purchased. We look forward to your contributions.

Cheese Aging Booklet Available for Download

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Our booklet exploring and evaluating current options in cheese aging is now available for download at our website: 

http://www.silverymooncheese.com/

The results from the survey are in the appendix.

We are grateful to all of those who provided input and insight, particularly to Hahn’s End, Northland Sheep Dairy and Little Falls Farm for providing narration of what they have done.

I am always so impressed with the willingness of cheese folk to share information.  Hat’s off to you all and happy cheesemaking.

Jennifer Betancourt
Head Cheesemaker and Co-founder
Silvery Moon Creamery

Crafting award winning cheese in a big red barn at Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook, Maine.

Sunset Acres Offers

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  • Sunset Acres Farm —
    • 75 gallon bulk tank all working Used here for 4 years. Great starter tank. $600
    • 100 and a 150 gal bulk tanks Never run here but running when removed from farm. Still have freon in them so that is a good sign!! Could be used for vats or whatever your mind could think up. I have many ideas. $250 each
    • Large hot water heating unit for cheese plant. Actually a swimming pool heater! Ran everything here and cheaply. Needs to be installed out of doors and we didn’t have the room anymore. Many new parts. Cost over $2,000 will sell with many installation parts for $700.
    • Just bought many reg. Sannens from a milking herd that shows some not the other way around. Excellant bloodlines. Great herd buck prospects and some does. KIDS
    • Also many purebred Alpines this year. Many from Tom Cox bloodlines. Some does are 12 years old so that says a lot! Contact us at [email protected].