Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles as well as Janet King have actually silently created a broad variety of supreme ewe and also cow's milk cheeses on their idyllic 30-acre farm on the outskirts of Masterton, New Zealand.
Kingsmeade started out 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 are big, contented and full of personality-- no need to round them up at milking time, they hear Miles' voice as well as begin their own.
After years of hands on care, meticulous records and genetic studies, Miles' flock has actually developed into New Zealand's initial registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.
Today, Kingsmeade makes nine 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.
Calmness and also silently spoken, Miles is hands-on from the first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the everyday 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 throughout New Zealand.