Friday, February 9, 2007

Farmer's market experience

Project introduction to locally Sharp Alpine cheese available
What is it?
-Sharp Alpine cheese is swiss mountain chesse. It is made in summer grass mountains. They come from Hawthorne valley farm.
Who sells it here?
-Matt, but the person who grow's name is Abe. Matt likes his job, because he works 2 days a week, and he likes being outside.
Basics of hoe they grow it?
-they take milk from cows, which is organic, and they have 15 different fields to run around, because the farm is 300 acres. They also run around with cows and pigs. They separate the milk and store it, then they add renate which is like yeast for bread and store it for about a year.
High quality wb links
-http://www.forkandbottle.com/cheese/mastercheese.htm
-http://www.epicurean.com/articles/homage-to-fromage.html
-http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2005/July/27/style/stories/01style.htm

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