Artisan & Farmstead Cheese Makers

Small-batch cheese producers have taken the U.S. by storm, making everything from fresh goat cheese to fine rind-washed specimens. Here we list some of our favorites, including some that limit their cheese-making to those times when the grass is plentiful and the milk most flavorful.

Beehive Cheese Co.
Beehive Cheese Co. makes the renowned Barely Buzzed coffee-rubbed cheese.

Bellwether Farms Artisan Creamery
Learn about Bellwether Farms Artisan Creamery and their famously delicious cheeses and sheep milk yogurt.

Brad Sinko of Beecher's Cheese in Seattle, Washington
Kurt Dammeier founded Beecher's Cheese in 2002 and hired Brad Sinko to be its cheesemaker. Since then, Beecher's Flagship and other cheese have won national awards, and Sinko just keeps making the cheese, one vat at a time.

Bubalus Bubalis Real Mozzarella Cheese
Bubalus Bubalis makes freesh mozzarella from real water buffalos raised in Northern California and ships aroundthe country.

Bufala di Vermont
Bufala di Vermont in South Woodstock, Vermont makes mozzarella and yogurt from milk from their herd of water buffalo.

Cowgirl Creamery
Cowgirl Creamery has been making award-winning cheeses since 1997. Find information about their cheeses--and where to buy them--at their site. We're particular fans of Red Hawk and a properly stored Mt. Tam. For the true enthusiast, check out their Artisan Cheese Clubs for a regular supply.

Di Bruno Bros Homemade Burrata
Di Bruno Bros. burrata (a fresh mozzarella with creamy curds in the center) is made in Philadelphia and wrapped in the traditional freshness seal of leek leaves – if the leaves are yellow instead of green, the cheese is no longer fresh!

Faribault Dairy
Faribault Dairy makes Amablu Gorgonzola, Amablu Blue, and St. Pete's Select Blue – aged in sandstone caves outside Faribault, Minnesota. The blues are smooth, elegant, and wonderfully rich.

Grafton Village Cheese
Grafton Village Cheese Company makes plenty of delicious small-batch cheeses. Look out in particular for their Cave-Aged Truckle â€“ the one with a beer-soaked rind is yeasty sweet.

Haystack Mountain Farmstead Goat Cheese
Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy, located outside Boulder, Colorado, makes consistently delicious(and award-winning!) goat milk cheeses--from fresh Boulder Chevre to washed rind Red Cloud.

Maidenhead Cheese From Cherry Grove Farm, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Maidenhead washed rind cheese from Cherry Grove Farm in Lawrenceville, New Jersey has complexity, great taste, and a story.

Midnight Blue Cheese
This crumbly aged blue goat milk cheese from Colorado deserves its awards.

Nicasio Valley Cheese Company
Nicasio Valley Cheese Company is a certified organic farmstead cheese maker in West Marin country, north of San Francisco that specializes in Swiss-Italian style cheeses.

Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company
Read about Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company in Tomales Bay, California.

Red Rock Specialty Cheese
Red Rock Cheese out of Utah makes both cow and goat milk award-winning cheeses.

Redwood Hill Farm
Redwood Hill Farm makes all kinds of goat milk products.

Rogue Creamery
Famous for their Oregonzola, Rogue River Blue, and Smokey Blue, Rogue Creamery in Central Point, Oregon makes a range of flavorful, creamy artisan cheeses.

Uplands Cheese Company
Uplands Cheese Company in Dodgeville, Wisconsin makes the delicious Pleasant Ridge Reserve farmstead cheese.

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