Member Spotlight
Every post the Federation has filed under Member Spotlight.
The quality manager who rereads every recall notice
A farmstead quality manager has spent years turning industry recall notices into checklist items before they become her problem. We asked her how that habit started.
Read postThe counter that started keeping tasting notes
A retail member started writing down what customers actually said about a wheel before it sold out, and turned three years of scrawled notes into a case that…
Read postThe quality manager covering two shifts
A quality manager at a mid-sized creamery has spent years building its food-safety program. This month she's also been running the floor, and she told us what she…
Read postThe apprentice who spent January on the phone
A second-year apprentice at a Midwest creamery spent her holiday break calling wholesale accounts that had gone quiet. Here's what she learned about the accounts, and about herself.
Read postThe membership she almost didn't renew
A small-batch cheesemaker nearly let her membership lapse at the worst possible moment. Renewing it instead is the reason her cave is still running today.
Read postThe counter running on one fewer person
A cheesemonger at a small retail counter on how she's covering a holiday rush with a smaller crew than she planned for, and what she's letting go of…
Read postThe cohort that stayed a cohort
A composite from members who took a course together this year: what happens when a class of strangers on a video call keeps meeting long after the last…
Read postThe listing that lagged a job change
A member who changed creameries this spring found her federation profile still pointed to her old employer months later, and she's not the only one.
Read postThe quality manager who triple-checks the label
One member has spent three holiday seasons as quality manager at a small farmstead creamery. We asked her what she double-checks in the week before Thanksgiving.
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