Who I am and what my mission is.

I spent ten years making cheese in the US before beginning to travel globally volunteering with cheesemakers and herders in 2019. I wish to document the intersection of traditional and modern techniques, and portray the global diversity of dairying, cheesemaking, and grazing practices. In doing this I want to show how the final cheese is the end product of a complex series of relationships and decisions made by humans, that are embedded in a a cultural, geographic, and climatic setting. I advocate for raw milk, a natural starter cultures, heritage breeds, regenerative or ecologically responsible grazing, and the right of all humans to ferment milk in their own homes, selling in local markets. In order to further my mission I am writing a book, and hope to build an online archive, a global database of cheese, dairy, and grazing knowledge. I would love to talk with anyone interested in hosting me anywhere in the world and hearing about how you do things.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

My New Home!!


I just arrived here this evening and got moved into one of three rooms in an apartment within a farm house in royal oaks California, outside Watsonville which is near Santa Cruz.  The Ranch consists of 40 acres on hilly terrain about 7 miles from the coast.    This place is incredible and I know I'm going to love it here. There are pigs, goats, ducks, chickens, cats, and dogs along with a grip load of Sheep.  My housemates are Jess who works at Happy Boy produce doing farmers markets and Rebecca who runs Garden Variety Cheese.  

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