Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles and also Janet King have quietly created a broad range of supreme ewe as well as 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 and also loaded with personality-- no demand to round them up at milking time, they hear Miles' voice and begin their own.
After years of hands on care, meticulous records as well as genetic studies, Miles' flock has actually become New Zealand's initial 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 tough varieties to deliciously creamy.
Tranquility and quietly spoken, Miles is hands-on from the first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the daily milking, cheesemaking, cutting and also packaging. Each batch of cheese is hand made in the manufacturing facility on the farm, ideal alongside the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders around New Zealand.