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What happened to the NY State Farmstead and Artisan Cheese Makers Guild?Last summer I went to a really fun event at Sprout Creek Farm in Poughkeepsie, NY, hosted by the New York State Farmstead and Artisan Cheese Makers Guild. It was called "Cheese Day" and it featured talks from cheese makers and fromagers alike, as well as tours of the cheese making facilities at Sprout Creek and basic cheese making workshops. I was looking forward to going back this year, but it doesn't appear to be happening. And the guild's website, once an informative repository of New York State-related cheese links, events, and resources, has been down for months. Does anyone out there know what's going on with this organization? Have they folded already, or are they just going through a transition? UPDATE: The Guild's website is back up, but at a new address. New York State Farmstead and Artisan Cheese Makers Guild Bookmark/Search this post with:
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Bustrip to Sprout Creek in October
A CHEESY FIELDTRIP!!!
Date From October 21, 2006 8:00 AM
Until October 21, 2006 6:00 PM
Saturday, October 21 bus departs 8:30am sharp(1 1/2 bus ride) returning in the evening.
Location Saxelby Cheesemongers, Essex Street Market
120 Essex Street
New York, NY 10002 [map it!]
Info Line 201-370-2301
Website http://saxelbycheese.com
Contact Matthew Scott
201-370-2301
culematty@aol.com
I wish to register for this event.
Description
Saxelby Cheesemongers is proud to announce...
A Cheesy Fieldtrip! Join Matthew Scott and Anne of Saxelby Cheesemongers on a bus trip to one of New Yorks finest Artisanal Farmstead cheesemakers in the beautiful Hudson Valley. Farm tours, cheesemaking demonstrations and samplings of Sprout Creeks fine products followed by a lunch prepared by the CIA trained Sprout Creek Staff. Apple picking amongst peak fall foliage in the afternoon. Note to prospective fieldtrippers, buy pie crusts for bags of apples you will cart back to the City.
Enjoy all this while helping raise money for an amazing nonprofit farm that always has open doors to the community. See Sproutcreekfarm.org for a look at the many wonderful things they do besides turning out some of the finest cheeses available. All proceeds will go to support Sprout Creeks many programs. All this for $75!!!
Notes
see Saxelbycheese.com for directions to bus pick up.
NYCHEESE.ORG
The New York CHeese Guild was created by the Regional Farm and Food Project. They were unaware it was down for a month till I contacted them. I would not know of half the cheesemakers in NY if not for the website. Many of these farmers/cheesemakers are not marketers at all and without this website are completely off the radar for us folks down here in the city. Hope they get it together, I will keep prodding them along.
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