Tide Mill Creamery is still looking for a 50-100 gallon vat pasteurizer. Send tips to tidemillcreamery (at) gmail.com.
We’re also on the hunt for:
An undercounter commercial-grade (fast) hot-water sterilizing dishwasher
Category Archives: Guild
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Meeting: Maine Agricultural Trade Show
The Guild met at the Augusta Civic Center on the first day of the annual Maine Agricultural Trade Show with a good group of members and non-members alike, featuring a visit by Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (US House member for Maine’s 1st district) who is also a member of the Agriculture Committee, and is working hard to include small farm assistance in the upcoming renewal of the Farm Bill. We also discussed our upcoming workshops, and decided to offer scholarships for them before opening the floor to questions and/or comments from old and new cheese makers alike.
Meeting: Holiday Party @ Pineland Farms Creamery
Our annual Holiday Party was held in New Gloucester at Pineland Farms Creamery, including a catered lunch for Guild members and their guests. Over thirty folks helped us toast our Guild’s accomplishments in 2011, as well as inspired us toward new goals in 2012.
For our Christmas Cheese-taculor this year, many attending brought a batch of Christmas Cove Cottage Cheese for everyone to sample. The one gallon recipe yields about three pints of cottage cheese, so we had asked that everyone contribute: one pint of plain, and one pint of flavored (your choice of add-ins).
We voted on our favorite plain as well as favorite flavored batch, and the winners were:
- PLAIN: Forage Farm — Diane Schivera, cheesemaker
- FLAVORED: Silvery Moon Creamery (Cranberry Ginger)– Dorothee Grimm and Rachel Lauriat, cheesemakers
Thanks to everyone who participated!
–Eric Rector
President, Maine Cheese Guild