Store bought goat cheese

Babies due end of Feb. Come to my house after the beginning of March. I'll give you some chevre and some feta that'll make your mouth water.

Ruth

I'm considering hitting the local Farmers' market this summer. The Amish sell food all the time without any permits. I'm going to sell cheese and offer free samples. Maybe even comparison samples with store bought yucky cheese.

Ruth

That's our problem. I wanted to get into cheese etc. but in order for me to have my own goats to use for it there were too many hoops. I'm actually ok with some regulation but it was ridiculous. Here it's illegal to even give free samples, to share the milk/products with your family etc. When I read through the regs it looked more like dairy board control than safety issues. The safety related stuff was tiny compared to the marketing/selling/purchasing stuff.

The dairy board, for the longest time, used to exclude any milk that wasn't cows. Then they realized their mistake and sucked us all in. It's such a bummer.

I wish they did it like eggs - here if you have a flock of less than one hundred you can sell ungraded without regulation. They should have a similar "smallholder" policy for dairy, I think.

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Peace

I've tried both an imported chevre and a block of goat colby from wisconsin...both were really bad and 'bucky" flavored....I heard the mt. sterling goat cheese company in wisconsin just went out of business.

I've had goat cheese purchased at Vancouver, Washington's Saturday market; yummy yummy yummy! Also, we have right here in our own community, Cypress Grove Chevre....holy buckets, I love the "Humboldt Fog" and the "Bermuda Triangle" and the "Purple Haze"(I think that's the name of that one). But I've also gotten the inexpensive little logs at our big chain store Winco that come from Wisconsin and they've been darned tasty. Haven't had any awful stuff, yet.

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Joan Crandell
Wild Iris Farm
"Fair"- the other 4 letter F word." This epiphany came after almost 10 days straight at our county fair.

Jcran - you've been very lucky! I've had good and bad experiences with boughten goat cheese. I agree with the whole verdict of 'tasting like licking a buck's nose'. I've had cheese like that - eeeewww!

Black Mesa Ranch sells goat's milk cheese and candies online - their cheese isn't goaty and their toffee is TO DIE FOR. Serious. I sent it to my family for Christmas - everyone raved. So, I guess See's Candy is no longer our Christmas candy tradition! lol Black Mesa Ranch is totally off-grid also - wind turbine and solar powered. Pretty nice folks too. Their goats are VERY happy - I've visited a bunch of times. Healthiest, happiest goats I've ever seen. The products aren't cheap, though.

Niki

Hopefully I will be up and running to sell my cheese this year or next, Maybe the next time you all discuss who has the best comercial cheese I will be on your list.
Steff

Ok, now I'd like to flame you I am a SERIOUS toffee addict, so I RACED to their page....ONLY at the HOLIDAYS?! Thanks A LOT Niki! GROWL...didn't you know I am on a diet and after 5 days with prepubescent 5th graders (Mel Brooke's "Springtime For Hitler in Germany" but rewritten to be "Springtime with 5th Grade-It's Puberty") I was SOOOOOOOOO ready to order toffee. I will haaaaave to waiiiiiitttt!!!(LOKS-Leaning over keyboard sobbing). And I don't even have any babies coming for a month!!!!! More LOKS.

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Joan Crandell
Wild Iris Farm
"Fair"- the other 4 letter F word." This epiphany came after almost 10 days straight at our county fair.