Herds and Curds

Carmen heads just north of Melbourne to the beautiful Macedon Ranges to chat to Sarah Azjner of Dreaming Goat Dairy about starting up her small goat farm and cheese production.Follow Herds and Curds on Instagram @herdsandcurds

In this month's Herds and Curds we continue our exploration of farmhouse cheeses in Tassie as Carmen chats to Nicole Gilliver of Grandvewe Cheeses about the joys and hard yakka involved in sheep farming and cheesemaking.Instagram:  @grandvewecheeses

Herds and Curds on tour in Tas. Carmen recently visited kate and Ian Field of Tongola Cheese and recorded  this conversation on site. It'sd a wonderful insight into their farming methods, thier relationship with their goats and life as farmhouse cheesmakers in Tassie ....hard yakka.Instagram @tongolacheese

This month's Herds and Curds features an excerpt of an event organised by the Australian Specialist Cheese Association (ASCA) that took place at Calendar Cheese earlier in the year. The event titled Revinventing Farmhouse Cheese bought together Bronwen and Francis Percival, authors of Reinventing the Wheel: milk, microbes and the fight for real cheese, Carla Meurs from Holy Goat Cheese, Andy Hatch from Upland Cheese (Wisconcin USA), Mateo Kehler from Jasper Hill Farm (Vermont, USA) and micro-biologist Ian Powell. Moderated by Richard Cornish with assistance from ASCA secretary Alison Lansley.Check out the speakers on Instagram:@holygoatcheese, @uplandcheese, @jasperhillfarm, @foodcornish, @bronwenpercival, @australian_cheese, @calendar_cheese

Leanne chats to Carmen in France having recently decended the Swiss mountains following her 2018 season on aplage with her small herd of ten goats. In this epsiode we go into more depth about Carmen's daily life with the goats, her cheesemaking techniques and experiments as well as her appreciation of some useful visits from industry professionals.

Don’t miss listening to Corinne’s passion for her animals, her production and her lo-fi work practices; a truely beautiful little exploration of her life as a farmhouse cheese maker in Drysdale, Bellarine Peninnsula.To find out more check out drysdalecheeses.com

This month on Herds and Curds we chat to Rachel Needoba about her Gippsland micro dairy and discover the process of making handmade unhomogenised milk and yoghurt from a local Fleckvieh herd.To find out more check out Rachel's Instagram Butterfly Factory.

This week Carmen and Leanne talk to Ann-Marie and Carla of Holy Goat Cheese about their journey to becoming world class farmhouse cheese makers and life and work on their Sutton Grange organic farm.

This week Carmen and Leanne talk to Ann-Marie and Carla about their journey to becoming world class farmhouse cheese makers and life and work on their Sutton Grange organic farm.To find out more check out Holy Goat Cheese.

Leanne McLean steps into the wilds with Carmen Bateson extrapolating the whys and hows of her incredible journey from inner city Melbourne to the Swiss Alps where she now spends the northern summers herding goats and making her very own raw milk goats cheese.