'It was a struggle to get any of the French technicians who work on this type of equipment,' Brickley explains. The kettles came from a French creamery in the Jura region that used them to slowly and evenly heat milk for making Comte. The farm also invested in two six-foot-wide copper-lined kettles and curd-sucking vacuums to expand their selection of Alpine-style cheeses, including Highlander and the smooth-melting Whitney. Faced with a tectonic shift in the the cheese market, the Jasper Hill Team applied for a state grant that, combined with a PPP loan, provided funding for marketing expenses and machinery to cut and wrap smaller pieces of cheese, which don't require a monger to slice from a wheel. However it's also provided unique opportunities. But we were able to avoid laying anyone off.' We had cows in the milking shed, but not animals walking around the farm, which was heart-wrenching. 'We spaced out our cows to our two partner dairies that were operating under capacity. 'We pulled back on production and put more milk into hard cheese,' says Zoe Brickley, Jasper Hill's director of communications. Like every other farm, the pandemic has taken its toll on Jasper Hill. If you've tasted their cheeses, like Harbison, Alpha Tolman, and Whitney, you know why-these people know their dairy! These are but a few reasons we consider Jasper Hill Farm one of the great cheese success stories of the past 25 years. The farm counts over 100 employees, not including the small family farms that have exclusive contracts with Jasper Hill to buy their milk at above-market rates. The Cellars at Jasper Hill, a facility for aging award-winning cheeses that opened in 2006, is the largest of its kind in the United States. Today, cheeses from Jasper Hill Farm rank among our top sellers. Their mission was straightforward, but ambitious: to build a sustainable business in agriculture that offered a more profitable and secure path than the industrial approach favored by big farms. Back in 1998, brothers Andy and Mateo Kehler decided to buy some land in Greensboro, Vermont.

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