Cheese farmer made be a made up term but when you make artisan cheddar cheese from the dairy cows you milk, it seems fitting so it’s what I called David Hemme as I visited the...
Cheese Making & Enjoyment: A Great Cheese Vocabulary List
- September 13, 2023
- Tagged as: cheese, dairy
Love that we get to talk about so many different ideas in the world of cheese with our conversation with artisan cheddar cheesemaker and dairy farmer David Hemme with this episode! 1. Curds: The solid…
Milk is in just about everyone’s fridge. And cheese, yogurt, sour cream, and ice cream. Especially ice cream. Dairy products are so ubiquitous that it can be easy to take them for granted and not…
Common ground is a phrase that is said less frequently these days, and environmental common ground isn’t what everyone expects happens when environmental scientists and farmers sit down together. But maybe we should. The health…
There are titles that go almost unnoticed, but being a cheesemonger definitely stands out! It took a long time but eventually, I met a cheesemonger. That cheesemonger, Jessica Keahey (founder of Sweet Freedom Cheese in...
Maybe it started with PBS as a kid, but I love to compare and contrast things. So when the team at Midwest Dairy recently asked if I would like to see two different dairy farms...
How a Sustainable Dairy Farm Upcycles Things to Produce Great Milk
- May 2, 2022
- Tagged as: dairy, food waste, Missouri
This post about a sustainable dairy farm is sponsored by Midwest Dairy. I was compensated for my time, but all wording and opinions are mine. In the first podcast I posted, background on how my…
Biosecurity or Zoonoses: What it Means to Keeping Livestock & People Healthy
- January 17, 2022
- Tagged as: beef, cattle, dairy
In our episode talking about farming chickens, Lauren mentioned biosecurity. Another big word connected to livestock and human health is zoonoses. The word zoonoses…. seeing that on my screen makes me wonder how many of…
With agritourism on the rise, there has been a lot of diversification of efforts and one niche is agritainment. That’s where the Leonard family found themselves after dealing with the challenges of urban sprawl and...
Hearing Paula Hynes talk about her experiences of spending time with the Maasai people in Kenya offers a whole new perspective on farming. Paula, who has a dairy farm with her husband Peter in Ireland...
How did we come to talk about Irish butter? As we’ve been doing these interviews, I have found inspiration for episodes in a range of places. The inspiration for this one? Making a grilled cheese...
Knowing the first episode of our second season would be published the first week of March, it was obvious we needed to talk about the Cheese-A-Day Challenge started by “Farmer Tom” in the UK! Getting...
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