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March 2023 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

March 2023 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

The March shipment of our monthly cheese club celebrates American legacy cheesemakers: each of these cheeses are made by some of the oldest names in American artisan cheesemaking! Read on to learn about this month's selections and sign up to have this month's club shipped straight to your door!

Lively Run Dairy: A Sustainable Future for Goat Cheese, With a Rising Star

Lively Run Dairy: A Sustainable Future for Goat Cheese, With a Rising Star

Three medals from the American Cheese Society would be a feather in the cap of any cheesemaker. In Pete Messner's case, it's an affirmation of what we at Saxelby Cheesemongers have known for years—that he's a rapidly rising figure in the American cheese revolution!

How to Pair Cheese and Whiskey

How to Pair Cheese and Whiskey

Wine and beer may be the most common pairings for cheese, but they're far from your only options. Believe in whiskey and cheese!

February 2023 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

February 2023 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

Cheese all day: that's the promise of February's monthly cheese club shipment. Representing three diverse styles and origins, each comes into its own at a different time of day for three distinct meals. Read on to learn about this month's selections and sign up to have this month's club shipped straight to your door!

Spring Brook Farm: Raising a New Generation of Cheese Lovers With Raclette

Spring Brook Farm: Raising a New Generation of Cheese Lovers With Raclette

Located in Reading, Vermont, Spring Brook Farm has been making delicious raw milk Alpine style cheeses since 2008. That cheese is a natural extension of their primary mission: a self-sustaining non-profit outdoor agrarian classroom for schoolchildren from urban backgrounds.

January 2023 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

January 2023 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

Our first cheese club shipment of 2023 features three cheeses particularly rooted in European cheesemaking traditions, but could only have been made in America.

Ploughgate Creamery's Cultured Butter Starts a New Chapter

Ploughgate Creamery's Cultured Butter Starts a New Chapter

A young, intrepid cheesemaker named Marisa Mauro churns some of the country's best butter. Here's what comes next.

December 2022 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

December 2022 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

The December shipment of our monthly cheese club features a beer-washed wheel, a square-shaped bloomy rind goat cheese, and a grass-fed taste of Appalachia. Read on to learn about this month's selections and sign up to have this month's club shipped straight to your door!

Sustainable Cheese—and Cheesemaking—on the von Trapp Farmstead

Sustainable Cheese—and Cheesemaking—on the von Trapp Farmstead

Sebastian von Trapp is the third generation to tend the land on this Vermont farmstead, and the first to turn to cheesemaking as a way to preserve a family legacy.

November 2022 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

November 2022 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

The November shipment of our monthly cheese club features three beloved cheeses made in three very different ways. Read on to learn about this month's selections and sign up to have this month's club shipped straight to your door!

Old Chatham Creamery: Shepherd of New York

Old Chatham Creamery: Shepherd of New York

In the world of American cheesemaking, sheep milk is a rarity. But Old Chatham Creamery isn't just surviving as a sheep milk dairy; it's thriving.

How to Pair Cheese and Cider

How to Pair Cheese and Cider

Sure you've heard of pairing cheese with wine, but have you tried pairing with cider? Here in the United States we're in a golden age of cidermaking, which is just winemaking by another name. In some cider producing parts of Europe that double as notable cheesemaking regions, cider and cheese are thick as thieves.

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