Vermont Cheese Festival Announced

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vt_cheesefest_logoVermont is hosting a Vermont Cheesemakers Festival on August 23rd at Shelburne Farms.  We have about 35 cheesemakers attending with tables and would like to see any of the NH guild members or Maine Guild members would be interested in having a table. The thinking is that a one-day regional event might capture a lot of the retailers from New York North who might not be traveling to Austin.  We are hoping for 1000 attendees (consumer and trade) .  This would be a great opportunity for any cheesemaker who is looking for good regional exposure and new customers.  If you think that there would be interest, I would be happy to put together a more formal letter to your members.  I would need to get your assistance in distributing it.  Thanks in advance for your thoughts.  The almost ready site is at www.vtcheesefest.com.

Allison Hooper
Vermont Butter & Cheese Company
P.O. Box 95
Websterville, Vermont  05678
800-884-6287www.vtbutterandcheeseco.com

Ag Day At the Legislature 2009

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Above you can see me telling Governor Baldacci about how Maine Cheese is such a great dairy success story!

Along with about thirty ag focused groups, I spent the morning of March 31 offering samples of Maine cheese (thanks to State of Maine Cheese Co., and Pineland Farms) to state house workers and legislators (in between sessions) and asking them if they’d like to know more about Maine cheese. Most of the did, and most of them very much liked the samples of the cheese.

For the legislators, I handed them one of the color Guild brochures and pointed out that when we printed the brochure two years ago there were 20 licensed cheese makers in Maine (as it states in the first paragraph of the brochure), but that currently there are 37 licensed cheese makers, which shows how many new folks are stepping up and putting more Maine milk to good use.
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