Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles and also 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 began making ewe's milk cheeses with milk from their very own flock of East Friesian sheep. Clover, chicory, plantain as well as lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep allow, contented and packed 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 actually become New Zealand's first registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.
Today, Kingsmeade makes nine different varieties of cheese, a lot of from ewe's milk and also some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, varying from aged tough varieties to deliciously creamy.
Tranquility and also quietly spoken, Miles is hands-on from the first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the everyday milking, cheesemaking, cutting and packaging. Each batch of cheese is hand made in the factory on the farm, ideal alongside the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders around New Zealand.