MOFGA certified organic milk available July 29 to Aug 4th. We are currently making ~400# per day, last test 6-17-13 3.5BF 3.0P 48SCC. We are due to test again the week of July 15th and will have current numbers available. Jersey & Normande cows, grazing herd. FMI, Contact Heather or Doug 213-3159 or 213-3158 balfourfarm@gmail.com
Good Food Awards 2013
The Good Food Awards launches its fourth year with a call for entries to American food producers across the nation, representing the best in tasty, authentic and responsible foods. Categories include: beer, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate, coffee, confections, oils, pickles, preserves, and spirits. Entries are judged at a blind tasting with 150 food movement leaders. Entry period is open July 1-31 at www.goodfoodawards.org ($60 fee to cover cost of storing, sorting and transporting the entries). New and renewing members of the Good Food Merchants Guild receive one free entry.
New Wave of Maine Cheese on the Radio
Last night Maine Things Considered broadcast a story about the new wave of Maine cheese makers by reporter Jennifer Mitchell featuring soundbutes from Caitlin and myself. (I gave Mitchell several other names of people that she should talk with, but I’m not sure what happened with that).
In the broadcast piece I told a story about the cheese making history of Monroe, where I live, which she included in the broadcast piece, and after I got home from the interview I dug out a copy of the oral history that had been passed along to me when I started my cheese business in Monroe. I went ahead and typed it up and posted it to the Guild web site so anyone else can learn about “Skipper Cheese.”