Description
We’re excited to partner with Grazier’s Daughter Cheese located in Gad, Wisconsin to bring local cheese to local people!! This specialty cheese is our customers’ favorite.
Our friends at Tomandl Farms are officially releasing their artisanal, bloomy rind cheese made entirely from the milk of their grass-fed, seasonally grazed cows. Their farm is right here in our area, so all of the seasonal nuances of our climate, our soils and our landscape are included in this cheese.
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS:
Soft, white, downy rind with earthy notes adding to the flavor. This bloomy rind cheese has a subtly earthy exterior and a bouncy, lush interior. It is mild, buttery, milky, with the flavor complexity increasing with age. The texture is fudge-like, buttery, softer as you get to the center. This cheese is made with 100% milk from Joe and Abby Tomandl’s family’s grazing dairy farm; the milk is grass-fed and pasture-grazed, regeneratively farmed, and certified organic. Made by hand by skilled cheesemakers using traditional methods. Best eaten at room temperature.
Tomandl Farms is well-known for their involvement in not only practicing but teaching regenerative dairy farming systems through the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship Program. Receiving the Leopold Stewards of the Land Conservation Award.
Joe and his wife Christy Tomandl, both former teachers, started their farm not long before daughter Abby was even born. The original 80 acres farm was built upon values of conservation of the land, water and soil. They chose to raise a dairy breed known for its grazing efficiency, New Zealand Friesians. The cows are fed harvested perennial forages during the winter. A managed grazing system for the herd protects the farm’s woodlands and wetlands, and grazing is delayed in some areas for grassland nesting birds.
The Tomandls exceeded the soil conservation requirements of Wisconsin’s Farmland Preservation Program. Their cropland’s soil erosion rate is nearly zero. The University of Wisconsin’s Marshfield Agricultural Research Station called their system the gold standard in soil health for coupling farm profitability with environmental benefits like improved water infiltration and proven carbon sequestration. As an organic farm, the lack of pesticide use improves pollinator habitat in its pastures.
