Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles and also Janet King have actually silently created a broad series of supreme ewe and cow's milk cheeses on their idyllic 30-acre farm on the outskirts of Masterton, New Zealand.
Kingsmeade began making ewe's milk cheeses with milk from their very own flock of East Friesian sheep. Clover, chicory, plantain and lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep are big, contented and filled with character-- no requirement to round them up at milking time, they listen to Miles' voice and also come on their very own.
After years of hands on care, meticulous records as well as 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, most from ewe's milk as well as some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, ranging from aged hard varieties to deliciously creamy.
Tranquility and also quietly spoken, Miles is hands-on from the first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the daily milking, cheesemaking, cutting and packaging. Each batch of cheese is hand made in the manufacturing facility on the farm, best alongside the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders throughout New Zealand.