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WordPress.com have an really good article with some excellent pictures to illustrate turning 18 pints of Hurdlebrook Raw milk into cheese. Click here to see the article.

Here is Fenella’s next part of her Cheesemaker’s tale. As she explains it’s been a while since her last article but it has been all for very good reasons and worth the wait.

Ages since I last wrote which, I suppose, may be good as it shows I have been busy!

Ernie Drose and his mother Edith are having some of their Guernsey milk processed into cheeses by a newly established cheese company in Staffordshire. The cheese is being marketed under the Guernsleigh brand and is available in several flavours.

The Hereford Times reported on Kelsmor Dairy Ice Cream in a Herefordshire village created by Mark and Susan Jones. See what they had to say Click here.

29th May 2009 saw an article in the Farmers Guardian by Jack Davies titled Racing sources’ top food tips. Newbury Race course launched it’s 25 mile menu making it one of the first sporting venues in the UK to source almost all of its food from the local area.

It’s been sometime since the last entry and things have changed a little. Unchanged though, remains my excitement about making cheese although occasionally the moments are bleak especially when it is late at night and things haven’t gone right. Or when I very vaguely work out how much I may be making per hour in money terms! Not much is the answer and the answer to this lies in expanding production and finding other markets.

Crikey, where on earth to start on this one?! May I give a small tip: start looking as soon as possible if you need second-hand equipment as it is thin on the ground. I started looking at new but it was too expensive for a tiny concern like mine although I still look at the … Read more

The room itself has taken me a year to complete but that is mainly because I live on an island with almost full employment and busy builders. Of course, we’d all love to have a lot of room but most of us have to adapt what we already have. My space is a garage with … Read more

A few details about Fenellas cheesemaking training. It was an internet search that brought up AB Cheesemaking Courses. Various courses run by Chris Ashby and Val Bines who were a great double act on my first course and had been running the courses together for years but, by the second course, Val had left and now runs … Read more

Fenella Madison from Torteval, Guernsey has written the following:-  After about 2 years planning I am finally starting to make cheese. This diary/blog is intended to pass on my mistakes and successes. Perhaps even encourage others to do the same! A briefest scene set : My youth was spent never wondering what to do when … Read more