As the hardwood foliage bursts in a blaze of colors on Columbus Day weekend, take in the spectacular sights and taste some award-winning cheese during the Maine Cheese Guild’s annual Open Creamery Day on Sunday, October 15, from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Visit many of the area’s cheese makers in their creameries, meet the animals, and learn the stories behind Maine’s more than 150 artisan cheeses. Along the way you can also visit a farmers’ market, stop at an orchard, explore one of Maine’s premier breweries or wineries, pick fruit at Maine’s legendary orchards, and drop-in on one of the many artisan bread makers our state has to offer. You’ll love the views, and the taste of Maine cheese, straight from the source, will be the best memory of all.
Appleton Creamery
Caitlin & Bradley Hunter
780 Gurney Town Road, Appleton 04862 appletoncreamery@gmail.com www.appletoncreamery.com
Visit the goats and sample the award-winning cheese at Appleton Creamery in Appleton, and enjoy the whole goat experience. Cheese is handcrafted daily using traditional methods with milk from our herd of Alpine goats, and local cow dairies. Joining us this year for GOATAPALOOZA will be Copper Tail Farm with goat milk caramels, cajeta and yogurt, Sisters Soap with goat milk soap, Dragonfly Cove Farm goat meat products, and Back Forty Breads. Local spinner Penelope Olson will be spinning goat fiber. The pizza oven will be cooking!
Barred Owl Creamery
Patti and Chris Hamilton
6 South Fowles Lane, Whitefield ME 04353 hamiltonfarm03@yahoo.com
Experience award-winning organic cheese (best in the nation goat/sheep farmstead feta) on a beautiful farm, in Whitefield. Meet the goats and sheep, tour Barred Owl Creamery and visit our farm store full of homemade products including baked products. For more than 15 years we have hand-milked our Fresian sheep and Nubian cross goats and produced MOFGA-certified organic feta, chevre and blue cheeses. We also have laying hens and heritage breed turkeys. We live in the heart of central Maine’s agricultural hub of Whitefield only six miles from Sheepscot General Store, Fuzzy Udder and several other cheese producers.
Fredrikson Farm
60 Danforth Road, China Village 04926. http://www.fredriksonfarm.com/ https://www.facebook.com/fredriksonfarm?fref=ts
Come join all the festivities at Fredrikson Farm, enjoy a farm tour and take a stroll on our beautiful walking trails. Experience Alpaca with the Northern Solstice Alpaca Farm from Unity. We will be joined by Younity Winery and Tree Spirits Winery with wine tasting. Boynton-Mckay Food Co. from Camden will be providing their amazing cuisine. Live music by the Oshima Brothers who will be providing “upbeat folk – sibling harmonies.”
Fuzzy Udder Creamery
Jessie Dowling, cheesemaker-farmer-activist
35 Townhouse Road, Whitefield 04353. fuzzyudder@gmail.com www.fuzzyudder.com https://www.facebook.com/FuzzyUdderCreamery/.
Fuzzy Udder Creamery currently milks 16 sheep and 12 goats and buys organic cows milk from Two Loons Farm, in South China. Our animals are raised on pasture, fed organic grain and Maine grown oats and given lots and lots of love. We make a variety of fresh, soft-ripened and aged cheeses from cow, sheep and goat milk. Come snuggle our fuzzy critters and taste our cheeses.
Kennebec Cheesery at Koons Farm
795 Pond Road, Sidney 04330. Kennebeccheesery@gmail.com www.KennebecCheesery.com
Licensed in 2008 with 10 goats we have expanded to an in-line milking system with PV panels on the cheesery roof and now milk 42 Alpine and Saanen cross goats. Come see the “working girls” and this year’s J-doelings? and taste the delicious soft and hard cheeses we make from?their milk. Many fun recipes provided. We also have a flock of Katahdin sheep who love apples. Come feed Bambi, CoCo, Snow White and the others.
ME Water Buffalo Co.
Brian & Jessica Farrar & family
232 Old County Road, Appleton www.mewaterbuffaloco.com mewaterbuffaloco@gmail.com
Come visit Maine’s only herd of water buffalo. At our state licensed dairy, we specialize in our fresh hand-stretched buffalo mozzarella along with other fresh buffalo cheeses and our creamy yogurt and gelato-all made with our own water buffalo milk. Pasture hayrides throughout the day to see the water buffalo up close. Some of our fresh buffalo cheeses will be available at our farm store to sample and purchase along with our other farm products. Pet the baby buffalo calves and feed our pet goats.
Responsible journalism is hard work!
It is also expensive!
If you enjoy reading The Town Line and the good news we bring you each week, would you consider a donation to help us continue the work we’re doing?
The Town Line is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit private foundation, and all donations are tax deductible under the Internal Revenue Service code.
To help, please visit our online donation page or mail a check payable to The Town Line, PO Box 89, South China, ME 04358. Your contribution is appreciated!
https://townline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/TownLineBanner.jpg00Website Editorhttps://townline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/TownLineBanner.jpgWebsite Editor2016-10-06 15:19:352016-10-06 15:36:48Area creameries to take part in Open Creamery Day October 15
0replies
Leave a Reply
Want to join the discussion? Feel free to contribute!
Leave a Reply
Want to join the discussion?Feel free to contribute!