Member Spotlight
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The stand that watched the conference too
One member ran her farmers market stand and streamed the Annual Conference on a phone propped against the cooler, at a market that's finally back to something like…
Read postThe creamery budgeting hay before cheese
A drought-stressed feed market has one Midwest farmstead member rewriting her production math for the second half of the year, cheese case first and cave second.
Read postRenewed from a kitchen table
A one-person farmstead operation nearly let her membership lapse last year. She renewed anyway, and now credits the federation's online coursework with keeping her business on track.
Read postThe long way into cheesemaking
A former restaurant manager spent last year's slow season working through our online courses one at a time. She's now running a small make room of her own.
Read postThe box that outlasted the program
A federal food-box program that carried her creamery through the worst of it wound down this month. The mailing list it built didn't.
Read postA farmers market stand without samples
A farmstead cheesemaker in the upper Midwest rebuilt her farmers market stand this spring with a sign-up sheet instead of samples, and found the ledger held anyway.
Read postThe cave she finally trusts in spring
A member spent her first two springs fighting her aging room's humidity swings. This year she stopped fighting it and started planning around it instead.
Read postThe buyer still tasting cheese over video
A specialty grocery buyer in the Southeast still hasn't sat across a cutting board from a producer in over a year. She's built a tasting process that works…
Read postThe first pallet she shipped overseas
A member in the upper Midwest spent the winter learning export paperwork by trial and error. Her first overseas pallet shipped last week.
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