Dick and Paula from Arrowhead Farm sent us the MA Department of Agriculture newsletter announcing:
”Massachusetts Cheesemakers Bring Home the 2009 American Cheese Society Awards”
The American Cheese Society announced the 2009 American Cheese Society Awards on August 7th in Austin, Texas. Massachusetts farmstead cheese makers Carlisle Farmstead Cheese, Carlisle; Shy Brothers Farm LLC, Westport and Westfield Farm Capri, Westfield fared well in the competition in many categories:
Soft Ripened Cheeses made from Goat’s Milk – 2nd Place, Carlisle Farmstead Cheese, Ada’s Honor
Soft Ripened Cheeses with flavor added -3rd Place, Shy Brothers Farm LLC., Hannahbells Shallot
External Blue Molded Cheeses All Milks – 1st Place, Westfield Farm, Classic Blue Log, 2nd Place, Westfield Farm, Bluebonnet, 3rd Place, Westfield Farm, Hubbardston Blue Cow
Farmstead Cheeses Goat’s Milk aged 60 days or more- 3rd Place, Carlisle Farmstead Cheese, Greta’s Fair Haven
Fresh Goat’s Milk Cheeses, flavored with peppers- 1st Place, Westfield Farm, Herb Garlic Capri
The American Cheese Society “applauds all the cheesemakers who work daily to bring the traditions of American made cheese to life, to market and to the largest ACS Cheese Competition to date. “ The American Cheese Society’s goal is to give positive recognition to those cheese that are of the highest quality in their aesthetic evaluation for flavor, aroma and texture, as well as their technical evaluation.
The Massachusetts Wine and Cheese Trails, produced by DAR’s MassGrown & Fresher and the Massachusetts Farm Wineries Association is available at www.mass.gov/Massgrown and includes 11 of the 18 Bay State cheese businesses open to the public. This year’s ACS winners from Massachusetts are open by appointment. Massachusetts cheesemakers make more than 75 varieties of artisan and farmstead cheeses.
Westfield Farms also makes an amazing chocolate goat cheese that you can pick up at the farm or mail order.
Awesome sounding Elizabeth. Do you use in in some ‘desert’ like way? Or more like a Mexican mole’ sauce?
Gloria,one of our readers, sent in this note by email about Cheeses
Although Westfield Farms’ wonderful goat cheeses are available in stores locally, I generally get them at the Farmer’s Market in Brookline. At the end of the season, generally the last week in October, I pre-order a 3lb. block. It lasts through the winter as it freezes well.