Business Strategies and Cheese (NOFA-VT Summer Workshop Series Event)

Pre-registration required (limit 20)

Get a behind-the-scenes tour of Blue Ledge Farm as Greg Bernhart and Hannah Sessions extrapolate on what it takes to start and maintain a farmstead cheese operation. We will discuss equipment needs and costs for both the dairy and cheese production areas, value added ideas, and labor needs. They will “crunch the numbers” as to size and profit. Blue Ledge Farm was established in 2000 and now produces 40,000 pounds of artisanal cheese annually from the milk of their own 80 goats as well as two other area farms. Participants may purchase cheese after the workshop.

Directions to 2001 Old Jerusalem Rd, Salisbury: From Middlebury (North): Rt. 7 South to Halladay Rd (take right). At Stop sign take right onto Shard Villa Rd. Go 3.5 miles on paved road. Go straight onto Leland Rd (graveyard on right). Blue Ledge Farm is 3.5 miles on left.

From Brandon (South): Rt 7 North to Arnold District Rd (take left). At stop sign go left. Go one mile and take right onto dirt road which follows creek (Old Jerusalem Rd). Blue Ledge Farm is 2 miles on the right.

From Whiting & Rt 30 (West): From Rt 30, go east on the Leicester-Whiting Rd. Go approximately 3 miles to Leicester Jct. Take left (Old Jerusalem Rd) immediately after bridge. We are 2 miles up Old Jerusalem Rd on the right.

Parking: Park in U-shaped driveway