Member Spotlight
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The cave she keeps under fifty degrees
A three-generation farmstead operation on cutting the propane budget without cutting the wheel count, and why she called us before she called her lender.
Read postThe rep who writes it down
A regional distribution rep keeps a private notebook on every cave she calls on — humidity, timing, what sold last visit — and it's become the reason producers…
Read postMember spotlight: a cave's summer solstice
While most of the federation preps caves for a cold holiday push, one member is three weeks from the longest day of the year, and her sheep-milk season…
Read postThe member whose cheese never leaves the house
She isn't a producer, a buyer, or a shop owner, and she's still logged more course hours than most professional members this year. We asked why.
Read postThe farmstead's first holiday season
A dairy farm that added a cheese program this spring is about to sell through its first holiday season. We asked what surprised its owner most about the…
Read postThe cheesemaker who wrote her first public comment
One farmstead member had never filed a public comment before this year. She told us what finally pushed her to write one, and why she thinks more members…
Read postThe apprentice who entered Alpine Styles
Two years after her first cheesemaking class, one member entered the Alpine Styles category for the first time and is already planning what she'd fix for next year's…
Read postThe cave that lost power first
A Gulf Coast member's aging cave lost power a full day before this week's hurricane made landfall. What she did in those 24 hours is worth every member's…
Read postThe buyer who rewrote her fall case in one afternoon
A specialty buyer at a Great Lakes cheese shop tore up her planned fall case after one bad tasting session, and told us why that's the job.
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