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Vermont Cheese Summit is a 2-day event that helps distributors, retailers, groceries, restaurants, and other wholesale buyers and food professionals connect with and experience cheese producers’ production sites and stories firsthand. Saturday:  Cheese producers site visits with our industry-only tour day. Sunday: A day of education sessions, networking, and one-on-one sampling and sales conversation with Vermont’s cheese producers. This is a great opportunity for industry buyers to network with each other, cheese producers, and distributors. Part of Vermont Cheese Week: A week-long, state-wide celebration with educational panels, delicious tasting and sampling opportunities, on-site farm and creamery experiences, and the opportunity to meet cheesemakers firsthand across the state.

NOTES FOR ATTENDEES: 
  • Maximum two tours per attendee. Headcounts limited - registration required.
  • We recommend you don’t select tours that have less than 3 hours between start times.
  • Use filters to plan your sessions by geographic region, milk type, producer size, and more. On a desktop: "Filter by Type," lower right of screen. On Mobile: Filter Sessions button.
  • Downloadable Farm & Facility Tour Map (including farm addresses and milk type)
  • Important Farm & Facility Navigation Tips (including travel time matrix)
  • Questions: Haley B. Elkins, Program Coordinator, Vermont Cheese Council, haley@vtcheese.com
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Saturday, September 14
 

9:00am EDT

Good Hands Creamery
Saturday September 14, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Good Hands Creamery
DESCRIPTION: Good Hands Creamery is an artisanal creamery located in Windsor, VT. We create small-scale batches of unique and flavorful raw milk cheeses, all made by hand and aged with care. We partner with Cedar Mountain Farm in Hartland, VT for sourcing raw Jersey cow milk. It’s important to us to source from a dairy farm that uses regenerative grazing practices to enrich the soil and the environment.

TYPES OF PRODUCTS: raw milk tomme, cider-washed alpine

NAVIGATION HELP: Our property has an old white farmhouse, a bright yellow farmstand, and an old barn.  Please park in the driveway marked with parking signs!  Google Maps provides accurate directions.  Cell service is limited on the property.

NEED TO KNOWS: Please wear clean clothes as you will be touring a cheese cave.  Hair nets and shoe covers will be provided to you.

Saturday September 14, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Good Hands Creamery 3528 Route 44, Brownsville, Vermont 05037 USA
  Farm & Facility Tours

10:00am EDT

Cabot Creamery Cooperative
Saturday September 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Cabot Creamery Cooperative
DESCRIPTION: The Northeast farm families who own Cabot Creamery Cooperative love what they do. And they’ve been doing it for a long time—every single day since 1919. Over 100 years later, we’re proud of our thriving farms, strong communities, and happy, healthy cows that produce the rich, buttery milk that we use to make Cabot’s award-winning cheese and dairy products.

TYPES OF PRODUCTS: Cheddar (aged, flavors, slices & shreds), Monterey Jack, Muenster, Butter, Sour Cream, Greek Yogurt

NEED TO KNOWS: Please note that Cabot is offering a 10:00am and a 2:00pm tour.

Saturday September 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Cabot Creamery Cooperative
  Farm & Facility Tours

10:00am EDT

Crowley Cheese
Saturday September 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Crowley Cheese
DESCRIPTION: Crowley Cheese is America's oldest cheese business, celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. It continues to make, entirely by hand, its unique, raw milk, rinsed curd, cheddar recipe in America's oldest cheese factory, which has operated continuously sine 1882. It has received a First Place Award in the ACS competition. The factory is open to visitors 7 days a week.

TYPES OF PRODUCTS: Crowley only makes its historic recipe, but offers 16 different cheeses varying by age, breed of cow, or flavoring.

NAVIGATION HELP: We are located on Healdville Rd, which runs south from Route 103, about 5 miles west of Ludlow (on the backside of Okemo Mountain.)

NEED TO KNOWS: We can offer a specific window for an industry-directed tour, but Crowley is open to the public from 10A-4P.

Saturday September 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Crowley Cheese 14 Crowley Ln, Mount Holly, Vermont 05758 USA
  Farm & Facility Tours
  • Vermont Region Southeast
  • Producer Size Small
  • Type of Milk Cow
  • Farm or Facility Website: crowleycheese.com

10:00am EDT

Parish Hill Creamery
Saturday September 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Parish Hill Creamery
DESCRIPTION: At Parish Hill Creamery, we make raw milk cheese when the cows are out grazing the unseeded, hillside pastures of Elm Lea Farm. Our cultures are creamery propagated clabbers, made from the milk of Sonia, Helga, Clothilde, and Abigail. Our mission is to make the very best cheese possible: understanding that exceptional milk, traditional methods, and staying open to new ideas are all necessary to make folk cheese in the modern world.

TYPES OF PRODUCTS: natural cheeses: raw milk, autochthonous starters, rennet, Maine sea salt. monastic, mountain. Natural, as defined by Slow Foods International.

Saturday September 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Parish Hill Creamery 873 Patch Rd, Westminster West, Vermont 05346 USA
  Farm & Facility Tours

10:00am EDT

Shelburne Farms
Saturday September 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Shelburne Farms
DESCRIPTION: Shelburne Farms is an education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future. Since 1980, our cheddar has been crafted on our farm campus, using raw milk from our herd of pasture-raised Brown Swiss cows. Everything we produce connects learners to the working landscape and helps them better understand their role in sustainable food systems. Our entire historic campus is a living classroom that invites program participants, visitors, and overnight guests to learn, grow, and be inspired.

TYPES OF PRODUCTS: Cheddar; various age profiles, Smoked & Beer

NAVIGATION HELP: Tour guests will meet at the Welcome Center parking lot. The Welcome Center is at the main entrance of Shelburne Farms. We are located 1.7 miles off Route 7.

NEED TO KNOWS: We are a working farm. We recommend wearing closed toed shoes you don't mind getting a little dirty.

Saturday September 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Shelburne Farms 1611 Harbor Rd, Shelburne, Vermont 05482 USA
  Farm & Facility Tours

10:00am EDT

Vermont Creamery
Saturday September 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Vermont Creamery
DESCRIPTION: Vermont Creamery, a pioneer in artisanal cheese and cultured butter, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Founded in 1984 by Allison Hooper and Bob Reese, the brand has a rich heritage and a reputation for crafting exceptional dairy products.

TYPES OF PRODUCTS: soft ripened cow and goats' milk cheese, fresh chevre, cultured butter, creme fraiche and mascarpone.

NEED TO KNOWS: Bring farm-appropriate footwear and expect to wear disposable booties over top of the shoes.

Saturday September 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Vermont Creamery 20 Pitman Road, Websterville, Vermont 05678 USA
  Farm & Facility Tours

10:00am EDT

Vermont Shepherd
Saturday September 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Vermont Shepherd
DESCRIPTION: Vermont Shepherd is a family owned and operated sheep farm and dairy located on 250 acres in Westminster West, VT. We are one of the oldest sheep dairies in the country and we make a variety of aged and fresh sheep cheeses as well as cow and sheep mixed milk cheeses and dairy products.

TYPES OF PRODUCTS: Basque-style aged cheeses, fresh cheese, and yogurt

Saturday September 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Vermont Shepherd 281 Patch Farm Road, Putney, Vermont 5346 USA
  Farm & Facility Tours, Small

10:00am EDT

von Trapp Farmstead
Saturday September 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
von Trapp Farmstead
DESCRIPTION: We are an organic creamery on a third generation family farm dating back to 1959. We believe that wholesome, flavorful food begins with healthy soil and animals. As farmstead cheesemakers, we can look out the window and see the cows that produced the milk we are turning into cheese or yogurt. Our products are infused with a deep appreciation & desire to honor the land and cows that allow us to practice our craft.

TYPES OF PRODUCTS: Cheese, Yogurt, Whey Fed Pork, Beef, Eggs

NAVIGATION HELP: Park in our Farm Store Parking lot or the staff parking located behind the farm house

NEED TO KNOWS: Shoes will need to be changed, clean clothing required, uneven ground

Saturday September 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
von Trapp Farmstead 251 Common Road, Waitsfield, Vermont 05673 USA
  Farm & Facility Tours

11:00am EDT

Stony Pond Farm
Saturday September 14, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Stony Pond Farm
DESCRIPTION: Stony Pond Farm, nestled in the Green Mountains of Vermont is a first generation, organic farm run by husband and wife team, Melanie and Tyler Webb. While they both enjoy milking the cows, Melanie makes and cares for the cheese, while Tyler manages the grazing and the fieldwork. The cheese is a culmination and celebration of the whole farm ecosystem.

TYPES OF PRODUCTS: Soft-ripened, Alpine, Tomme style

NAVIGATION HELP: Our farm is located on Emch Drive off of Chester Arther Rd. Once you turn on Emch, pass the blue house and then follow the "check in" past my house (with the red roof) and up to the barns. You can park up by the barns.

NEED TO KNOWS: I will have shoe covers for a creamery tour and you should wear appropriate footwear for an outdoor farm tour of the cows and pastures.

Saturday September 14, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Stony Pond Farm 336 EMCH Dr, Enosburg Falls, Vermont 05450-5592 USA
  Farm & Facility Tours

12:00pm EDT

Plymouth Cheese
Saturday September 14, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Plymouth Cheese
DESCRIPTION: America's Oldest Cheddar made in the Plymouth Cheese Factory, built in 1890.

TYPES OF PRODUCTS: Cheddar, Brie

NAVIGATION HELP: Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site

Saturday September 14, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Plymouth Cheese 106 Messer Hill Road, Plymouth, VT 05056
  Farm & Facility Tours
  • Vermont Region Southeast
  • Producer Size Medium
  • Type of Milk Cow
  • Farm or Facility Website: plymouthcheese.com

1:00pm EDT

Grafton Village Cheese
Saturday September 14, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Grafton Village Cheese
DESCRIPTION: Grafton Village Cheese Company produces handcrafted cheeses with premium unpasteurized hormone-free milk from local farms. Our original aged cheddars are aged for up to 2 years and include a selection of infused cheddars. Our small batch Cave Aged cheeses are made with cow, sheep and mixed milk and are aged in our caves in Grafton. Head Cheese Maker Mariano Gonzalez has over 30 years of experience producing both cheddars and original creations and has won multiple World’s Best titles for his cheeses.

TYPES OF PRODUCTS: Cheddar, infused cheddar; cave aged clothbound cheddar, mixed milk cheddar, alpine-style and wash-rind sheep milk cheeses.

NAVIGATION HELP: Townshend Rd. is a right or left hand turn off of Main Street (Rte 121). The Grafton Inn is on the corner on the left. Continue on Townshend Rd out of town for about 1/2 mile. The Cheese Plant will be on the left next to a covered bridge. If you end up at Grafton Trails and Outdoor Center, you have gone too far.

NEED TO KNOWS: Shoe coverings and hair/beard nets are required and will be provided.

Saturday September 14, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Grafton Village Cheese 533 Townshend Rd, Grafton, Vermont 05146 USA
  Farm & Facility Tours, Medium

1:00pm EDT

Jasper Hill Farm
Saturday September 14, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Cellars at Jasper Hill
DESCRIPTION: When you combine our high-quality milk with the technique and expertise of our cheesemakers, you get award-winning cheese. Our two creameries produce a twelve distinct kinds of cheese. Our cheesemakers strive to preserve the quality and flavor of our milk in every curd, carrying our Taste of Place as each wheel eventually makes its way toward peak ripeness. Our cheeses are ripened at The Cellars at Jasper Hill, our 22,000 square-foot underground cave-aging system.

NAVIGATION HELP: We are on google maps - make sure to select GREENSBORO location. The Hardwick location is our fulfillment center.

NEED TO KNOWS: Wear socks, please! Please note this tour is 90 minutes long. 

Saturday September 14, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Cellars at Jasper Hill 884 Garvin Hill Rd, Greensboro Bend, VT 05842
  Farm & Facility Tours

2:00pm EDT

Cabot Creamery Cooperative
Saturday September 14, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Cabot Creamery Cooperative
DESCRIPTION: The Northeast farm families who own Cabot Creamery Cooperative love what they do. And they’ve been doing it for a long time—every single day since 1919. Over 100 years later, we’re proud of our thriving farms, strong communities, and happy, healthy cows that produce the rich, buttery milk that we use to make Cabot’s award-winning cheese and dairy products.

TYPES OF PRODUCTS: Cheddar (aged, flavors, slices & shreds), Monterey Jack, Muenster, Butter, Sour Cream, Greek Yogurt

NEED TO KNOWS: Please note Cabot is offering a 10:00am and a 2:00pm tour.

Saturday September 14, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Cabot Creamery Cooperative
  Farm & Facility Tours
 
Sunday, September 15
 

9:00am EDT

Educational Sessions & Sampling Event
Sunday September 15, 2024 9:00am - 3:00pm EDT
Basin Harbor Resort
Venue: Our 2024 Vermont Cheese Summit will be held at the beautiful Basin Harbor Resort outside of Vergennes, Vermont, nestled in the dairy country of the Lower Champlain Valley.

Description: A day of education sessions, as well as time for one-on-one sampling and sales conversation, with Vermont’s cheese producers. This is a great opportunity for industry buyers to network with each other, cheese producers, and distributors.

Tentative Schedule:
9:00am: Arrival & Check-In
9:30am: Welcome
10:00am: First Educational Session
11:00am: Second Educational Session
12:00pm: Sampling & Sales (light snacks provided)
2:00pm: Third Educational Session
3:00pm: Adjournment

Specific educational sessions to be announced in mid-to-late April

Questions? Contact Program Coordinator Haley B. Elkins at haley@vtcheese.com.

Sunday September 15, 2024 9:00am - 3:00pm EDT
Basin Harbor Resort 4800 Basin Harbor Road, Vergennes, VT 05491
  Sampling & Education Day
 
2024 Vermont Cheese Summit
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