{"id":2640,"date":"2014-04-14T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2014-08-29T22:09:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T03:09:39","slug":"next-meeting-may-5-at-little-falls-farm-in-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=2640","title":{"rendered":"Meeting: May 5 at Little Falls Farm in Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our May meeting was held at Little Falls Farm in Harrison. Although they are tucked away in the foothills of Western Maine this is a unique dairy that is well worth any length of drive to visit. Mary and John Belding raise a small herd of certified organic dairy goats on their little patch of fields and woods along the Crooked River. They make a *truly* farmstead product &#8212; a single variety of hard aged goat cheese called Riffle that is certified 100% organic because all ingredients besides the salt come from their farm, an excellent example of the breadth of varieties of cheeses made in Maine.<\/p>\n<p>There was a presentation from David Mathieu (www.cheesesociety.org\/david-mathieu-clauger-north-america), representative of Clauger North America.  They are a French company recommended to us by Michael Kalish.  They are involved in atmospheric controls at <a href=\"http:\/\/cheesenotes.com\/post\/76488026297\/crown-finish-caves\">a new cheese cave in Crown Heights, NY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We also had a presentation for a web site redesign that we will be considering for 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2664\" title=\"DSC04155\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC04155-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC04155-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC04155.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2665\" title=\"IMG_3806\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3806-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3806-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3806.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our May meeting was held at Little Falls Farm in Harrison. Although they are tucked away in the foothills of Western Maine this is a unique dairy that is well worth any length of drive to visit. Mary and John Belding raise a small herd of certified organic dairy goats on their little patch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-guild","tag-guild-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}