Following on from our collaboration with Neals Yard Creamery, we have now added Stichelton to our online shop.
Joe Schneider and the team at Stichelton Dairy have been friends for years. They hand make a top quality blue cheese in Stilton way, using raw milk from a single herd and traditional cheese making techniques in their farmhouse dairy. Now available individually and in a range of cheese selection boxes on our shop pages, including the ‘Pitch and Stich’ for a classic combo of cheddar and blue.
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We now have a collection of tailored Artisan gift and selection boxes. Perfect for a range of different occasions and tastes, and all designed to make delicious cheeseboards! Our cheese boxes are designed to make great gifts or just keep you in stock of your favourite cheeses.
The boxes include the “Perfect Picnic” designed as an indoor or outdoor picnic accompaniment for foodies, “Daisy’s Variety” a selection box of British cow’s milk cheeses, “The Larder Filler” and “The Feast” which are our largest selection boxes, perfect for families and special occasions. Due to it’s continued popularity we will be keeping on our intro box of just Gorwydd and Pitchfork, renamed “Trethowan’s Classic” Shop selection boxes We have teamed up with our long-standing friend, Charlie Westhead of Neal’s Yard Creamery to include his artisan handmade cow and goat’s milk cheeses as part of our online range. Charlie Westhead and his team take a truly artisanal, small-scale approach to cheese making, including creating all their own power with the use of green energy sources and sustainable water management. Like us, they choose to work with local suppliers whenever possible, and always source the best quality milk.
Todd first met Charlie 28 years ago and a firm friendship began. A shared ethos, strong work ethic and passion for good cheese has kept the friendships strong, so when we decided to open an online shop, Neal’s Yard Creamery were the natural choice for a partnership. Introducing Finn and Ragstone – available individually and now in a range of cheese selection boxes on our shop pages. We are back in production and our team is back in the dairy! We took the tough decision back in March to stop making cheese after the closure of restaurants and cancellation of key sporting and social events meant that a major part of our customer base disappeared over night. We had to look at ways in which we could sell our cheese through other avenues, which meant that we very quickly had to learn how to get an online shop up and running. Everyone who has purchased or promoted our Pitchfork Cheddar and Gorwydd Caerphilly has helped us get back up and running again, it really is entirely down to the fantastic support we have received from all of our customers that has meant we can begin production again and prepare for the future. A very big THANK YOU from the whole team at Trethowan Brothers. We will keep you updated with events in The Dairy and will be sharing tips on cheese care, tasting notes, recipes and anything cheese related over the coming months.
We have already expanded our online shop and you can now buy our Pitchfork Cheddar and Gorwydd Caerphilly in a range of sizes and weights from our website. We will also be expanding our shop range over the coming weeks. Watch this space for news on some new products and great new partnerships with other artisan cheese-makers and in the meantime, keep on eating and helping to save our Great British Cheese! Back in May, Cheese makers, Food writers, bloggers, cheese experts and cheese lovers all came together to create the Great British Cheese weekender – an online festival of all things cheesy to help save British Artisan cheese. As part of the weekend, we did a live session introducing our Pitchfork Cheddar and Gorwydd Caerphilly and showing how we make them in our dairy in Somerset. You can still see the tour on our Instagram feed.
We feature in Claire Finney’s brilliant article on how shopping has changed throughout the lockdown crisis. Exploring how small batch producers and retailers like us have had to adapt to the changing ways in which people shop and how this can be maintained once the restrictions start to lift.
Read the full article here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/texting-butcher-whatsapping-baker-new-world-buying-food-informally/ We’re so excited about the British Cheese Weekender this Bank Holiday weekend. The Cheese Academy and other organisations have put together a fantastic range of events, putting the spotlight on small-batch, artisan producers as well as hosting talks and dairy tours, giving the public a chance to learn about the amazing cheese culture that we have here in the UK. As part of this celebration of British Cheesemaking we will be taking part and also offering our own Instagram live event too. For a full list of our participation in the event see here: Saturday 9th May 4.30pm Harvey &Brockless live cooking event Making a Cheese Souffle with Pitchfork Cheddar https://blog.academyofcheese.org/british-cheese-weekender/lynher-dairies-cornish-kern-0 Saturday 9th May 5.30pm Cheese and Wine 101 with Patrick McGuigan https://blog.academyofcheese.org/british-cheese-weekender/patrick-mcguigan-cheese-and-wine-101 Saturday 9th May 7pm The History of British Cheese in 30 minutes with Ned Palmer https://blog.academyofcheese.org/british-cheese-weekender/ned-palmer-the-history-of-british-cheese Saturday 9th May 9pm Zoom “Cook-along” with No2 PoundStreet & talk by James Golding about choosing cheddar award winners Sunday 10th May 7.30pm LIVE on our Instagram channel - Trethowan Brothers: A Dairy Story Sunday 10th May 8pm Save British Cheese talk with Patrick McGuigan https://blog.academyofcheese.org/british-cheese-weekender/save-british-cheese That’s all from us. Have a great bank holiday weekend!
In a world of increasing homogenisation, it’s great to have someone championing the case for the use of raw milk and traditional methods of cheese making. Patrick McGuigan, writing in the Financial Times this week sets out the wonders of raw milk cheeses and the growing public appetite for small, farm-based manufacturers focusing on quality, welfare of their animals, environment, local economies and food culture.
It’s a tough market with increasing levels of bureaucracy designed to manage industrial scale producers but with no leeway for the artisan producer. Read the whole article here (put in link) and look out for the great photos of our Pitchfork Cheddar by Suzie Howell. - click here 5 raw milk cheeses you should try by Keith Kendrick This month we featured in the BBC Good Food Magazine. Our Pitchfork Cheddar was listed as one of the top 5 raw milk cheeses along with a recommendation on how to enjoy it (in our case, a tangy homemade piccalilli, but we think a good bottle of Somerset Cider would be a great accompaniment too!)
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Project name: New Cheddar The aim of this project has been to start cheddar production at Trethowan's Dairy. The funding has supported the purchase of all new equipment required to produce cheddar, as well the design and build of a chilled cheddar store adjacent to the current dairy. It is part funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development. |