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Ardith Mae Farmstead Goat Cheese is a small goat cheese dairy located in Stuyvesant, New York. It works with many farms in the surrounding Hudson Valley as part of the local food movement.
History of the farm
[edit]Husband and wife Shereen and Todd Wilcox founded in 2006 Ardith Mae Farmstead Goat Cheese with an original goat farm located in Hallstead, Pennsylvania.[1][2] By January 2009, the dairy was making cheese from 31 goats.[1] In 2010, it began selling goat cheese at the Union Square Greenmarket, 77th Street Greenmarket, and Columbia Greenmarket in New York City.[1][3] In February 2013, Shereen Alighanian had divorced from Todd Wilcox and sought to move the dairy to Columbia County, New York.[2] Through the Farmer Landowner Match Program of the Columbia Land Conservancy, she secured a location for Ardith Mae Farmstead Goat Cheese on the property of Monkshood Nursery in Stuyvesant, New York.[4][5] By August 2013, the farm had set up its new barn and cheese facility on the Monkshood Nursery property and begun selling goat cheese again at New York City greenmarkets.[2]
Products and process
[edit]As of 2014, Ardith Mae Farmstead Goat Cheese sells 8 varieties of goat cheese: Bigelo, Doolan, Feta, Fresh Chevre, Green Peppercorn Pyramid, Herb Coated Button, Honey Lavender Chevre, and Mammuth.[6] The food publication Edible Brooklyn described Ardith Mae's chevre as "loose and airy, pillow-soft and perfectly spreadable, flecked with a gentle dusting of sea salt."[7] The farm raises Saanen and LaMancha dairy and meat goats that have been approved by the U.S.-based Animal Welfare Approved organization.[8]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c Fishner, Ben. "Market Scene Profiles: Ardith Mae Goat Farm". Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ a b c "Ardith Mae front page". Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ "Making food isn't easy Q&A with Shereen Wilcox of Ardith Mae Goat Farm". Small Farming in the Northeast. Wordpress. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ McConnell, Elizabeth. "An Unlikely Partnership". Hudson Valley Agriculture. pages.vassar.edu. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ "Ardith Mae Farm – a double farmer landowner match success story". Columbia Land Conservancy. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ "Current products". Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ Olin, W. Eliot. "Get Your Goat". Edible Brooklyn. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ "Ardith Mae Farm, Stuyvesant, NY". Animal Welfare Approved.