Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles and Janet King have silently 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 filled with individuality-- no requirement to round them up at milking time, they hear Miles' voice and also begin their own.
After years of hands on care, meticulous records as well as genetic studies, Miles' flock has turned into New Zealand's first registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.
Today, Kingsmeade makes nine 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.
Calmness and also silently spoken, Miles is hands-on from the initial 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 beside the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders throughout New Zealand.