Twig Farm Goat Tomme is a raw goat's milk farmstead cheese made by Michael Lee and Emily Sunderman at their farm in West Cornwall, Vermont. It is aged for 80 days, during which the cheese develops a creamy, pliable texture and an earthy, soft grey-brown natural rind. Flavours delicately flow between fresh notes of herbs and grass and sweetness of goat's milk. This is a seasonal cheese, available generally between June – February.
Goat Tomme has won many awards, including a ribbon at the American Cheese Society competition in 2006.

Twig Farm Goat Tomme

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Produced by Twig Farm in Vermont, Fuzzy Wheel is a bloomy rind, aged cow and goat's milk cheese developed by cheesemaker Michael Lee. Coated by a fluffy grey mold called poil du chat (cat's fur), the interior is ivory white in colour with firm yet supple texture, dotted with small 'eyes' or holes. Flavours are evocative of butter, milk and cream with earthy undertones.

Fuzzy Wheel

Twig Farm Square Cheese is a raw goat's milk farmstead cheese made by Michael Lee and Emily Sunderman at their farm in West Cornwall, Vermont. It is aged for 80 days, during which the cheese develops a semi-soft texture and a natural, rustic-looking mottled rind.
Flavours delicately flow between herbs, grass, and toasted nuts with lovely pungency from goat's milk. The cheese is matured in a tied cloth that gives it a square shape. Marks in the middle of the cheese point to the indentation from where the knot was tied. This is a seasonal cheese, available generally between June – February.
Square Cheese has won many awards, including a Third Place in the Farmstead Goat Cheese category at the American Cheese Society Competition in 2007.

Twig Farm Square Cheese

Twig Farm Washed Rind Wheel is a raw goat's milk farmstead cheese made by Michael Lee and Emily Sunderman at their farm in West Cornwall, Vermont. It is also sometimes made with raw Jersey cow's milk sourced from Joe Severy's organic dairy in Cornwall. The wheels are aged for 65 days, during which the rinds are washed with brine made with lees from hard apple cider and whey. This gives it a semi-soft texture and a full flavour.
This pink Tomme has a farmyard aroma of hay and earth, balanced by lighter goat flavours and a distinct savouriness common to washed rind cheeses. This is a seasonal cheese, available generally between June – February.

Twig Farm Washed Rind Wheel

Twig Farm Old Goat is a raw goat's milk farmstead cheese made by Michael Lee and Emily Sunderman at their farm in West Cornwall, Vermont. It is a matured and a much larger version of the Goat Tomme. While the Tomme is aged for 3 months and weighs about 2 lbs, Old Goat is aged for nearly a year and weighs 5 to 10 lbs. The difference is size and ripening period, gives it a distinct character in terms of texture, appearance and flavour.Old Goat is a firm, ivory coloured cheese with a light brown rind covered in white moulds. It has a smooth texture that can be slightly crumbly and sometimes flaky. Flavours are sweet, nutty, caramel with a touch of salt. Only favourite localvores at the Middlebury Farmer's Market are allowed to sell this cheese. Sometimes, Twig Farm turn some of the Old Goats into a year-old subtle blue cheese called Blue Goats.

Old Goat

Twig Farm Mixed Drum is a blend of local raw goat's milk and Ayrshire cow's milk from Scapeland Farm (Crawford Family Farm) in Whiting. It is a natural rind semi-hard cheese, aged for 4-7 months, approximately weighing 5 pounds. This cheese has the best of both worlds: nuttiness and grassiness from cow's milk and mild lactic, yeasty notes from goat's milk. It is produced seasonally, from May to December.

Twig Farm Mixed Drum

Twig Farm Crawford is a raw cow's milk farmstead cheese made by Michael Lee and Emily Sunderman at their farm in West Cornwall, Vermont. The milk is sourced from Scapeland Farm (Crawford Family Farm) in Whiting. It is aged for 75 days, during which the cheese develops a semi-soft texture and a natural rind. The cheese is squarish round in shape, weighs 2 pounds and measures roughly 7" in diameter and 3" tall.
Crawford has a rich, sweet, milky flavour, with a hint of tanginess along with grassy and earthy tones. This reflects the primary grass diet the Brown Swiss and Holstein cows are fed on. It has a firm crust and dense yet pliable paste.
This is a seasonal cheese, produced only during the winter months.

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Twig Farm Goat Tomme

Fuzzy Wheel

Twig Farm Square Cheese

Twig Farm Washed Rind Wheel

Old Goat

Twig Farm Mixed Drum

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