Member Spotlight
Every post the Federation has filed under Member Spotlight.
Training three new hires before the rush
A specialty shop manager in the Pacific Northwest hired three seasonal staff for the holiday rush and has three weeks to get them ready. We asked how she's…
Read postThe cheesemaker packing gift boxes by hand
A farmstead producer preparing her first big holiday gift-box season learns that wrapping and cutting well is its own kind of craft.
Read postThe producer testifying between milkings
A farmstead member in the upper Midwest has spent this fall writing testimony on a state aging-rule hearing between chores. We asked what keeps her doing it when…
Read postThe buyer who plans the case early
A specialty cheese buyer at a member retail shop says the fall case gets built weeks before anyone tastes a wheel. We asked how she decides what earns…
Read postThe buyer deciding whether to renew
A specialty cheese buyer at a mid-sized retailer has never put his membership on auto-renew. We asked what he actually weighs each fall before he re-ups.
Read postThe apprentice who caught up fast
A second-year apprentice at Alpine Crest Fromagerie joined the federation eighteen months ago and has already stacked three courses on top of her day job. We asked what's…
Read postSeven years of restocking the same case
A longtime retail member reflects on seven years of running a specialty cheese counter and seven years of federation membership that grew alongside it.
Read postThe cheesemaker who plans her fall in August
A farmstead member at Fernholt Creamery walks us through the spreadsheet she builds every August to decide which wheels get a long fall cure.
Read postThe farmstead that split its own ledger
A small farmstead member spent August doing what our price-sheet piece this week recommended, before we'd even written it. Here's what splitting milk cost from everything else showed…
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