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• Intro to Goat Cheese - Date depends on milk availability

  • When
    May 28, 2025
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    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    18 Spring Street, Belfast Maine - United Farmers' Market, Miller Street Entrance

  May 28  , 2025, 10 am - 4 pm - 1 Day - Learn the basics of goat cheese. We will make chèvre (a French style of fresh goat cheese), and many of its variations, as well as feta. We’ll discuss how goat milk is different from other milks, and why certain cheeses are better made with goat milk. Basic use of ripening cultures and rennet and milk chemistry will be covered. Do you have goats and want to make cheese? Are you thinking of getting goats? We can help!
  -$150/person -  Sign up and learn more here.

  Presented by Capercaillie Consulting/Appleton Creamery
  
  

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• Basics of Home Cheesemaking - 2 day Workshop

  • Start
    June 18, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • End
    June 19, 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM
  • Location
    18 Spring Street, Belfast Maine - United Farmers' Market, Miller Street Entrance

  June 18 & 19,  2025 – 10 Am. - 4 pm - Two Days. A hands-on workshop in basic home cheese making. In this two-day workshop we’ll be using simple equipment you may already have at home to make a jack cheese the first day, press overnight, then finish the second. In addition, we will also make feta, yogurt, a lactic cheese, quick mozzarella, and ricotta, depending on the interests of the class. This workshop will concentrate on basic cow cheeses using Springdale Farm cow milk but will also delve briefly into goat cheese. Basic use of ripening cultures and rennet and milk chemistry will be covered. You will go home with cheese that you’ve made!
  $300 , $500/couple  – Learn more and sign up here.

  Presented by Capercaillie Consulting/Appleton Creamery

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• Intro to Hard Cheese

  • Start
    June 25, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • End
    June 26, 2025
  •  
    1:00 PM
  • Location
    18 Spring Street, Belfast Maine - United Farmers' Market, Miller Street Entrance

  
    June 25 & 2610 am. – 4  p, 10 am. – 1:00 pm (half day). – In this day-and-a-half class, we will spend the first day making one hard cheese, but along the way we’ll discuss the different steps that go into making a hard cheese, and how a slight change here or there will result in a totally different cheese. We’ll discuss the differences between milks, starter cultures, rennet, pH, aging and rind development. We will press it overnight, then finish the next morning.
  Fee: $200 –  Learn more  and Sign up here.
  

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• Cheesy Gifts

  • When
    July 02, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    18 Spring Street, Belfast Maine

  July 2, 2025 – 10 am to 4 pm . 1 day - In this class, we will make feta and a soft cheese in the morning, and we will then marinate in olive oil in jars in the afternoon. If time, we will also make cheese balls.We will have some jars for the class. If you have any special ones at home, bring them! Pint size, wide-mouth is best. Bring an apron, hair covering, and lunch, as well as a fancy jar or two to fill.$150  - Sign up and learn more here.

  Presented by Capercaillie Consulting/Appleton Creamery
  
  

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• Italian Fun - Mozzarella & Ricotta

  • When
    July 09, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    18 Spring Street, Belfast Maine - United Farmers' Market, Miller Street Entrance

  July 9, 2025 – 10 am - 4Pm. -  1day
  Mozzarella and Ricotta are two iconic cheeses of Italy, and so easy to make! You will learn how to make both in this hands-on class, and go home with cheese you have made! $100/person.  Learn more and sign up here.

  Presented by Capercaillie Consulting/Appleton Creamery

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