Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles and Janet King have actually quietly created a broad series of supreme ewe and also cow's milk cheeses on their idyllic 30-acre farm on the outskirts of Masterton, New Zealand.
Kingsmeade began making ewe's milk cheeses with milk from their own flock of East Friesian sheep. Clover, chicory, plantain and lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep are big, contented as well as loaded with character-- no demand to round them up at milking time, they hear Miles' voice and begin their very own.
After years of hands on care, meticulous records and genetic studies, Miles' flock has become New Zealand's initial registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.
Today, Kingsmeade makes nine various varieties of cheese, the majority of from ewe's milk as well as some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, varying from aged tough varieties to deliciously creamy.
Calmness and also quietly spoken, Miles is hands-on from the first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the daily milking, cheesemaking, cutting and also packaging. Each batch of cheese is hand made in the manufacturing facility on the farm, ideal beside the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders all over New Zealand.