Artisan Cheeses will only be available at the Bigfork Summer Farmer's Market 2024
All of our milk is produced on our farm Mission Mountain Sheep Dairy in the beautiful and bountiful Mission Valley, Montana
Cloud Blue is a bloomy rind brie style blue cheese that has a soft gooey center with a funky white mold rind. This cheese is variable, often it is predominately blue and at other times absent of blue and is a traditional brie.
Our Farmstead Blue Cheese is a Stilton-style 100% sheep cheese aged 6-12 months. The texture is crumbly with a complex sweet to tangy blue flavor in one flavorful bite.
The Rock Blue Cheeses - roqueforti blue cheese. The taste of these cheeses is mild to strong depending on the variety of Roqueforti penicillium culture used and aging.
Fresh Sheep Milk Feta and Ricotta are made weekly for the markets. The distinctive heart shaped Feta envokes the Love Ewe theme of the creamery. The Feta is creamery, full flavor, dry salted making it ideal for snacks, garnishes and melting on your favorite Italian dishes.
The Ricotta is an unsalted Mascarpone style creamy cheese that can be used in desserts.
Our dream of a farmstead dairy & creamery began in 2013 with the purchase of our first dairy ewe, Margaret. In 2015, we added a parlor & milk room. We completed the creamery in 2022. We raise and care for a flock of 60 high producing East Friesian/Lucane dairy ewes.
Our ewes are selected for milk quality & volume, physical appearance, gentle dispositions and production of multiple lambs. They graze on pasture during 90% of their seasonal lactation. All lambs are raised by their mothers for at least 30 days prior to the ewe entering the milking parlor.
We specialize in the "blue cheeses." Sheep milk cheeses are rich, creamery, with the taste associated with fine European blue cheeses. We age our cheeses to allow the blue cheese to mature and deeply vein for a full flavored blue unique to our locale & sheep herding practices.