Cheese
Standards - These cheeses are modeled after another cheese, typically of European origin.
Miami Erie Canal
Type patterned after: Emmentaler or Swiss
Aged: 4-6 months
Price per Pound: $14.60
Description: Nutty with a sweet note
Availability*: All Year
Named after one of the two canals which run just a couple of miles from the farm running north and south and following the eastern boundary of the farm.
Wabash Erie Canal
Type patterned after: Gruyere
Aged: 4-6 months
Price per Pound: $14.60
Description: Nutty with a complex finish
Availability*: All Year
Named for one of the two canals which run just a couple of miles from the farm running east and west.
Flat Rock
Type patterened after: Abondance
Price per Pound: $14.60
Description:
Availability*: All Year
mmBossie Cheddar
Type patterned after: Bandaged stirr curd cheddar
Aged: 60 days - 6 months
Price per Pound: $13.00
Description: Creamy and gets sharper and more complex as it ages
Availability*: All Year
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Black Swamp Gouda
Type patterened after: Gouda or Edam
Aged: 60 days - 6 months
Price per Pound: $14.60
Availability*: All Year
Description: Ranges from creamy and mild to harder and sharper depending upon when it is made during the year. Changes much more drastically than any of the other cheeses.
Named after the Great Black Swamp in northwest Ohio. This swamp at one time covered approximately 3 million acres.
Herb & Garlic
Type patterned after: Jack with flavorings
Aged: 60 days - 6 months
Price per Pound: $ 14.50
Description: Creamy with herbs and garlic
Availability*: All Year
Herbs used are: rosemary, cracked fennel, thyme, savory, basil, tarragon, dill weed, turkish oregano, lavendar, chervil, and marjoram.
Italian Herb
Type patterned after: Jack with flavorings
Aged: 60 days - 6 months
Price per Pound: $ 14.50
Description: Creamy with a hint of Italian style seasonings
Availability*: All Year
For the Italian food fans. Made with a jack cheese and flavored with turkish oregano, basil, marjoram, thyme and cracked rosemary. This is a wonderful cheese to put on pizza and melt.
Originals - These cheeses were created right here on the farm; interweaving old practices and techniques with new ideas for a clean unique tasting experience.
Lock 21
Type patterned after: Cheesemakers own creation
Aged: 60 days - 4 months
Price per Pound: $16.00
Description: Slight mushroomy taste with a wonderful earthly overtone.
Avalibility*: Seasonally
On any canal there is a series of locks that makes the canal work. Just 2 1/2 miles from the farm there is Lock #21. This cheese was a creation of the cheesemaker one day. What resulted was a white rinded cheese, that has a slight mushroom taste with a wonderful earthly overtone. This is a seasonal cheese that is made only when the cows are on pasture.
Charloe
Type patterned after: Cheesemakers own creation
Aged: 60 - 120 days
Price per Pound: $16.00
Description: This cheese is a washed rind cheese thats aroma is earthy along with toasted peanuts. Smooth and creamy with hints of toasted peanuts.
Availability*: Seasonally
Named for the little town of Charloe. This town was a boom town during the canal era. It was also home to the Charloe Indians and housed the counties first court house.
Mule Skinner
Type patterned after: Cheesemakers own creation
Aged: 60 - 120 days
Price per Pound: $16.00
Description: Imagine a brie like cheese but with buttery overtones and melt in your mouth feel
Availability*: Seasonally
The Mule Skinner was the one that was in charge of the mules that pulled the canal boats. Most may think of a mule skinner as someone who was mean, crude, and not very lovable. In reality the mules that they tended to where their family, they loved them and cared for them.
Chouda
Type patterned after: Cheesemakers own creation
Aged: 4-6 months
Price per Pound: $16.00
Description: The feel of a creamy Gouda with a Cheddar overtone
Availability*: Seasonally
How can one even think of a name for a cheese like chouda. Well imagine a cheese that has the feel of a creamy gouda with a cheddar overtone. What started out as one style of cheese turned into a wonderful oops!
Burr Oak
Type patterned after: Hard Grating Cheese
Aged: at least 1 year
Price per Pound: $16.00
Description: Nutty, Wild grapes, Yeasty, with a little sweet to the finish
Availability*: First come first serve, May and September
Grate this over any dish and enjoy. We are now producing two batches a year of this wonderful cheese. One in May and the other in September. Reserve yours today as it goes fast.
*Availability
All Year: We try as hard as we can to make sure that we have some all the time but there may be times when it is not aged enough to cut.
Seasonally: Are only made when the cows are out in the pastures. Usually theses cheeses will be ready by mid to late May and continue untill they are sold out in early Winter
First come first serve: Only one batch a year is made. The month listed is when the cheese will be cut and ready. Once it is sold out after that date that is it until we cut the next batch.