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Posts about Workshops, Meetings, Festivals and conferences with a focus on cheese, dairy and agriculture.

Meeting: MONDAY Dec 16th at Noon

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We had our Holiday Party which was postponed to a new day — MONDAY — December 16th (due to the snowy Sunday) from Noon to 4pm at 3 Level Farm in South China. Please consider attending for a merry potluck, including (hopefully!) a vast spread of Christmas Curds to taste…including some of yours!

I look forward to heralding and toasting good tidings with you all as we begin a journey into a new year…

–Eric Rector
President, Maine Cheese Guild

Maine Chamber Annual Dinner – 11/15

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Last year Eric represented us at the Taste of Maine reception in DC. The Maine Chamber is replicating that model at the annual Maine Chamber Annual Dinner meeting on November 15th. Eric mentioned this in his post from last month’s meeting.

Here are the highlights of the event:

Don’t Miss the Chamber’s Annual Dinner with featured Guest U.S. Senator Angus S. King, Jr.

Join us on November 15th for the Maine State Chamber of Commerce’s 2013 Annual Awards Dinner – “Mr. King Goes
to Washington: An Independent’s Perspective on his First Year.”

They will be showcasing Maine foods at the reception and have invited us to participate. I will be there with my cheese and will represent the Guild. If anyone wants to donate cheese to the table and/or join me at the event, please let me know. The ideal time to bring cheese to include for the event is the annual meeitng on Monday, the 11th.

Hope to see everyone on Monday!!

Cathe
State of Maine Cheese

Meeting: October 7 at Turner Farm in North Haven

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North Haven Island, Maine, USAAlas.

Our Meeting at Turner Farm was a wash-out in more ways than one. As the small group that gathered in the Rockland Ferry Terminal waiting room chatted merrily as we waited to board the ferry to North Haven, the ferry left without us.

It was pouring buckets of rain that morning, and Steph at Turner Farm was a good sport about it when I let her know we had *missed the boat* but it was still a shame to realize that we had struck out.

The group in the waiting room was so small I decided that I would send off my agenda items to the group electronically to get your feedback. The one topic I need to hear back about is an immediate workshop proposal:

Michael Kalish is an Affineur who has studied in Europe and worked at the Herve Mons caves. I will email around the links he sent from earlier classes he has put on for other groups, and he has said he can be available to teach a class here in Maine in late March 2014.

Are Guild members interested in scheduling an Affinage Workshop? For one day? Two days? More? Please respond by posting comments on the Guild web site article for the October 7th meeting.

Additional Items on my Agenda:

  • More ideas for 2014 Workshops? Any follow-up info from earlier ideas?
  • Most people should know this: Sarah from Winter Hill Farm is organizing Open Creamery Day — contact her if you would like to be added to the listings for this event, or want to print out a poster to advertise the event.
  • The Maine Chamber of Commerce has announced that they want to organize another Taste of Maine event on November 15th at the Augusta Civic Center. For more information please contact Maine State Chamber Program Manager Amy Downing at (207) 623-4568 ext. 104, or adowning@mainechamber.org. If someone in the Guild would like to organize a Guild table as we did for the Washington, DC event in April, please let me know.
  • The Guild has lost its Logo banner — it’s about two feet wide by three feet tall with the Guild log printed on it. Does anyone know where it might be stored (it is NOT with the trade show display)? If not, does the Guild want to replace it? I would argue that it’s very helpful, especially in events that do not favor the use of the trade show display. Please comment on the article about this if you have some ideas.

Our next meeting will be our Annual Meeting which we always hold at State of Maine Cheese Co. in Rockport. I hope to see you there.

–Eric Rector
President, Maine Cheese Guild