![]() ![]() Rowden and Andrus hired two employees and started carting the goats to their new home in June. Over the last year, the partners bought the Hardwick farmland and about 350 goats from a Windsor dairy. Brickley said the couple stood out because they had experience running a scaled, technologically advanced goat farm and wanted an ownership stake. The company found that expertise with Andrus and Rowden. But Jasper Hill wanted to make sure it had experts on board before stepping into the field. So they reached out to the Vermont company with a pitch: ever consider making goat cheese?īrickley, the Jasper Hill marketing director, said customers had always asked about goat products. “Their attention to quality, their connection to the land, their intention to everything they do,” Rowden said. He listened to a presentation by Mateo Kehler, who owns Jasper Hill with his brother, Andy. The couple had been looking for a new opportunity when Andrus, 38, attended an American Cheese Society conference in 2017. Zoe Brickley leaves one of the caves at the Cellars at Jasper Hill Farm, a cheesemaker in Greensboro, on Friday, October 11, 2019. The partnership is an opportunity to tap into growing interest in both non-cow-milk and artisan cheeses, said Zoe Brickley, Jasper Hill’s marketing development director. About 250 goats live there, and around 100 more will soon arrive. The farm spans 240 acres north of downtown Hardwick. Now, the company is introducing a third cheese, Highlander.Īll three products use milk from Bridgman Hill, a former cow dairy bought last year and co-owned by the couple and the company. The technology helps to make better cheeses. Half of the cheeses online are made by Jasper Hill Farm, others are made by neighboring dairies and sent to Jasper Hill to take advantage of the huge, state-of-the-art, underground aging cellars. Both are made of half cow’s milk and half goat’s milk. The cheeses are sold at fine retailers and e-tailers nationwide, and also on the Jasper Hill website. Since this summer, Jasper Hill has launched two hybrid cheeses: Eligo and Bridgman Blue. That’s a first for Jasper Hill, the Northeast Kingdom company whose cow’s milk products have won global and national awards. Rowden, her husband Ryan Andrus and the Greensboro cheesemaker have teamed up to expand into a new market: goat’s milk cheese. They may be Jasper Hill Farm’s future, too. The several dozen kids aren’t only future milk producers. “This is future milk right here,” the 31-year-old said while the young goats - called kids - clambered to meet their visitor inside a barn at Bridgman Hill Farm. HARDWICK - The baby goats craned their necks over green pen fencing as Annie Rowden walked by. Bridgman Hill sells their goat milk to Jasper Hill Farms, a cheesemaker in neighboring Greensboro. Farmer Annie Rowden visits with young goats at Bridgman Hill Farm in Hardwick on Friday, October 11, 2019. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |