Category Archives: Events

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

Farm Business Skills Retreat

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Interested in improving your farm’s financial and production recordkeeping?

Want to connect with your customers on Facebook? Lacking the time and expertise to learn these skills?

Participate in The Farm Business Skills Weekend Retreat
Friday evening, March 9th thru Sunday noon, March 11th

Hosted by Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society and Knowledge Transfer Alliance

Bangor Motor Inn, Hogan Road, Bangor, Maine

REGISTRATION: To register, please contact Andrew Files of the Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society at 207.843.7581 or afiles@mesas.org. Space is limited, so register early!!

COST: The cost of the Weekend Retreat is $190 (for those lodging at the Bangor Motor Inn) and $50 (for those with other lodging arrangements). Lunch and dinner on Saturday, as well as snacks and refreshments throughout the weekend, will be provided.

Click here to download a PDF with all the event information.

Meeting: Maine Agricultural Trade Show

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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

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wiki_ornament300Our 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