Cheese Guild Meeting at Little Falls Farm

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The meeting took place Monday, October 5th at the homestead of John and Mary Belding in Harrison, Maine, on the banks of the Crooked River where they raise and milk goats to make organic aged cheese (including the vela for rennet!), pigs, chickens, turkeys, and lots of hay that they harvest and pack loose in their goat barn.

Guild Members (Current and Past) Win Big E Awards

Former Appleton Creamery apprentice Louella Hill

Former Appleton Creamery apprentice Louella Hill

Three current Maine Cheese Guild members won a total of seven awards at the Big E Eastern States Exposition 2009 Cheese Competition in West Springfield, MA. In addition, former Appleton Creamery apprentice and MCG member Louella Hill won two awards for her Narragansett Creamery in Rhode Island.

MCG Winners were:
Pineland Farms for

  • Salsa Jack
  • Onion and Garlic
  • Smoked Monterey
  • Smoked Salsa Jack

Appleton Creamery for

  • Chevre in Olive Oil
  • Georges Highland aged sheep cheese

Longfellow Creamery for

  • Feta