Kingsmeade Artisan Cheese

About

Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles as well as Janet King have quietly created a broad variety of supreme ewe and also cow's milk cheeses on their idyllic 30-acre farm on the outskirts of Masterton, New Zealand.

Kingsmeade started making ewe's milk cheeses with milk from their own flock of East Friesian sheep. Clover, chicory, plantain as well as lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep allow, contented and filled with personality-- no requirement to round them up at milking time, they listen to Miles' voice as well as come on their own.

After years of hands on care, meticulous records and genetic studies, Miles' flock has actually developed into New Zealand's initial registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.

Today, Kingsmeade makes nine various varieties of cheese, a lot of from ewe's milk as well as some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, varying from aged hard varieties to deliciously creamy.

Calmness and also silently spoken, Miles is hands-on from the very first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the everyday milking, cheesemaking, cutting and packaging. Each batch of cheese is hand made in the factory on the farm, appropriate next to the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders all over New Zealand.