Harvie Green member farm visits so far: 3 / 2239 = .13%!
Our goal is to have every Harvie Green member to visit a farm or a producer within the next year. Visited someone on your own? Let us know!
We are setting up visits with farms now and will send you a personal invite based on producers you’ve ordered from and the number of slots we have for each visit. So look for an email from me with an invite soon! – Simon Huntley. CEO, Harvie
Best in Show Producer Highlight! The Farm at Doe Run, Chester County, PA
Just last week, The Farm at Doe Run’s St. Malachi cheese won “1st place- Best in Show” at the American Cheese Society’s Judging and Competition Awards. This is one of the top awards in the cheese community and it shows that Pennsylvania is home to some of the best cheeses in the world.
The Farm at Doe Run is well deserving of recognition- their philosophy is based on simple, sustainable farming. They believe that the flavor of the cheese starts at the farm and the cheese should reflect the bounty of the seasons. Olivia Haver, their director of deliciousness says “aging cheese is beyond creating something delicious, but a way of connecting to the land. We are below the earth, a part of it, while coaxing out the personality of a cheese that is a product of the weather, flora, and the animals’ microbiome.” Their small batch farmstead cheeses are made from the rich whole milk given by their herd of Jersey and Normande grass-fed cows and from seasonal milking goats and sheep.
The award winning cheese, St. Malachi, found on Harvie, is most similar to Gruyere or an aged Gouda, but there’s something else going on in this natural rind beauty. There are notes of roasted nuts, dried fruits, bourbon, toffee–even buttered toast. It is a cheese worth sitting with.