Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles as well as Janet King have actually quietly created a broad variety of supreme ewe and cow's milk cheeses on their idyllic 30-acre farm on the outskirts of Masterton, New Zealand.
Kingsmeade started making ewe's milk cheeses with milk from their own flock of East Friesian sheep. Clover, chicory, plantain and lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep allow, contented as well as loaded with character-- no demand to round them up at milking time, they listen to Miles' voice and begin their very own.
After years of hands on care, meticulous records and also genetic studies, Miles' flock has actually turned into New Zealand's very first registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.
Today, Kingsmeade makes 9 different varieties of cheese, a lot of from ewe's milk as well as some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, ranging from aged difficult varieties to deliciously creamy.
Calm and also quietly spoken, Miles is hands-on from the very first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the daily milking, cheesemaking, cutting and packaging. Each set of cheese is hand made in the manufacturing facility on the farm, appropriate next to the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders around New Zealand.