Cheese
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.
Available: Yes
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 - 2012 Good Food Award Winner
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.
Available: Yes
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.
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
Available: May 2012, reserve yours today!
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.
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
Available: Yes
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
Available: Yes
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 ( a French mountain cheese)
Price per Pound: $14.60
Description:
Available: Yes
mmBossie Cheddar - not availabe for wholesale
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
Available: Yes
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Black Swamp Gouda
Type patterened after: Gouda or Edam
Aged: 60 days - 6 months
Price per Pound: $14.60
Available: Yes
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.