Fairy Tale Farm lives up to its name: storybook-pretty, but with thorny thickets, secret caves, and dark woods. For 150 years, people raised sheep here, and the sheep love the ledges and rocky terrain.  Modern farm machinery, not so much.  So we’re learning how to do some things the old fashioned way, which suits us. 

We make the cheeses and gelato at our farm in a very small but very fine (we think) creamery.  Our sheep are milked from late spring to mid-fall in our dairy, and we buy cow milk in the winter from neighboring small farms. All our aged cheeses are raw milk cheeses, named for obscure fairy folk.

Dairy sheep are seasonal creatures, who prefer to get pregnant as the days get shorter and lamb when it begins to get brighter and warmer.  They allow us to live more in harmony with the seasons as well, with the busy time of spring lambing, the high gear of summer milking and making, slowing down in the late fall and winter to read and sleep more, and fix things. 

Currently you can find our cheeses at Middlebury and Burlington area Farmers Markets, and locally at City Market, Dedalus Wine Shop, Healthy Living Market, and Cheese and Wine Traders in Burlington, the Middlebury Natural Foods Coop, the Vermont Food Collaborative, the Mad River Taste Place, the Vergennes Laundry, and Eve and Murray's Farm to Home.