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Sequatchie Cove Creamery – The Birth of Our Farmstead Cheese…

Here are some photos from our first week of milking and making cheese in our new facility!

More info from the Creamery is soon to come…

: Coming in from the pasture for their morning milking

: Our Milking Devons…New Cheesehouse in the background

New Arrivals from Meadow Creek Dairy Farm to join our Milking Herd

The Milking Shed at Sequatchie Cove Creamery – ready for Morning Milking

The “Big Top” Corral – Where our cows gather daily waiting their turn in the Milking Shed

Preparing for milking

The daily ritual at Sequatchie Cove Creamery has begun!

This is the beginning of a beautiful thing here at the farm…we love what we do!

The Devons resting and grazing after their morning routine

Bringing hay to the herd

Cheese making at Sequatchie Cove has offically begun!

Cutting the curd

Bill’s all smiles about this cheese!

“Moulage”…French for “moulding of the curds”

Pressing to expell the whey

Our first wheel of Sequatchie Cove Cheese

Testing for proper pH

The new group lining up for evening milking

Evening Milking Crew

Preparing for using the milking machines

Attaching the milking machine

Milking machine in use – we can now milk up to 6 cows at a time, a huge step toward efficient cheese production at Sequatchie Cove!