Member Spotlight
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The apprentice who built her own cohort
A second-year apprentice at a small Midwest creamery didn't have a mentor down the hall this year, so she found four of them on a screen instead. Here's…
Read postThe stand she's setting up again
A farmstead member who spent a year selling entirely through a mail-order list is putting a folding table back up at her regional farmers' market this month.
Read postThe apprentice who built her own tasting panel
An affinage apprentice couldn't find an in-person tasting group last year, so she started a weekly video call with four other members instead. It's still running.
Read postThe creamery rewriting its own label copy
A three-person farmstead creamery spent the winter turning what its owner used to say across the counter into a page a stranger could read alone. This week she…
Read postThe program she rebuilt for a screen
A cheese-counter program director spent a year turning case conversations into something a customer could read on a screen. A year later, it's still paying off.
Read postThe clerk who learned to read a ledger
A counter clerk at a small cheese shop spent last year's slow months learning the store's books. She told us why that, not a new cheese, changed how…
Read postThe creamery that rebuilt its year online
One small farmstead creamery spent last year replacing nearly everything it relied on in person. We asked what's actually sticking now that it's a habit rather than an…
Read postThe creamery that kept a ledger of what worked
One farmstead creamery spent 2020 writing down every change it made, good and bad. On New Year's Day, that notebook is worth more than a resolution.
Read postThe counter that hired for the first time
A one-person cheese counter in the upper Midwest brought on its first part-time hire this month, right in the middle of the busiest week of the year.
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