Most people don’t think of agriculture when it comes to “work at home” business opportunities. But they can still be not only viable, but award winning. Here’s the story of Green Valley Dairy.
Green Valley Dairy presents Pennsylvania Nobel organic cheese, a rich, tangy, vintage Cheddar Cheese with the character and flavor that comes only from careful curing, cave aging, organic raw milk, and all natural ingredients. Even though it is only aged 7 months, it has character and rich flavor with a smooth after taste. It is more creamy, soft and smooth than what is usually found with Cheddars. It isn’t made exactly like Cheddar. It does not have as salty a feeling because we skip the brining part of usual cheddar process.
The Green Valley Dairy Story
Having turned their land organic, at the end of the 1980s and in the early 1990s Aaron Lapp and Henry Stoltzfus, two Amish family farmers, decided to let their cows pasture freely and stopped feeding them corn or hormones. While the quality of the milk soared, the quantity produced, per cow, dropped by at least fifty percent. The richness of this high-quality organic milk produced allowed for high-quality cheese to be made. Following age-old European processes, the farmers built a cave designed to age the cheese they produced.
This authentic artisanal production of organic, raw, cow milk and cave-aged cheeses does not imitate any other cheese and owes its taste to a unique combination of many factors: the methods used, the type of cows, the soil, and particular environment of South Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , USA.
Green Valley Dairy was incorporated early in 2003 for the purpose of distributing the cave-aged cheese produced with the milk from these free-range cows. During 2003, Green Valley Dairy saw some of the best restaurants and chefs of Philadelphia and Lancaster County become regular clients, and has found repeat business among the retail clients they serve at higher-end farmers’ markets, such as the Reading Terminal in Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania Noble was awarded Philadelphia magazine’s Best of Philly Cheese Award in 2004. It was awarded Best Cow Cheese 2005 by the American Artisan Treasure Association, Beverly Hills in California.
Their products are available online from GrassFedTraditions.com
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