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Cheese

Cheeses that we make - check the Cheeses Currently Available page for current availability

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

 

mmboss, mmboss, brings the cows into the barn when it is time for milking.

 

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.