Cheese Making

Mark is preparing for our Cheese and Yogurt workshop on the weekend. Here is the Colby he made yesterday. It is a washed curd hard cheese. The cheese will air dry over the next few days and will be ready for waxing on Saturday as a demonstration at the workshop.  

In addition to the Colby we will be making whey ricotta and paneer, and demonstrating the making of yoghurt. If you would like to learn more about making cheese at home we still have a number of places available for our workshop this Saturday.

Welcome to the Newest Addition

We have been waiting for the arrival of a calf from Bella....

 We expected her to give birth in October, but no calf appeared. It seems that she had a phantom pregnancy.
Meanwhile while our attention was on said cow, young Patsy has silently and secretly been blossoming....
About 2 weeks ago it came to our attention that Patsy's udder was starting to grow, She was bagging up, which could only mean one thing. Just under 9 months ago a bull had got to her. We were unsure when the calf would be born as we had no idea when the bull visited. We hoped that it might have appeared for the visiting school children, but sadly no. But late yesterday afternoon we discovered this....

A beautiful little heifer

Here she is with her mum and grandmother.

It will be so good to have creamy fresh milk again!