One-Day Natural Cheesemaking Workshop with David Asher

Churchtown Dairy is a working bio-dynamic farm that intends to serve as a beacon for those working to promote regenerative agriculture and sustainable communities.  We support the development of resilient and sustainable food systems while raising public awareness of the positive impacts ecological agriculture can have on the health of the human being and the earth.  We strive to imbue all our work with beauty—the buildings, the gardens, the care for the animals, and the economic and social systems within which we work.

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An Exploration of Natural Cheesemaking Methods with David Asher

This one-day class is designed to give a basic understanding of the philosophy of natural cheesemaking. Students will learn about raw milk’s microbiology, and how to cultivate an effective starter culture from it; how to curdle their milk with natural rennet; how to make a basic rennet cheese; how to ferment that cheese and stretch it into a fresh mozzarella; and how to age the same cheese into a Camembert with a natural white rind.module 1: raw milk’s microbes; and cultivating a natural starter from themmodule 2: curdling milk with rennet; and making a basic rennet cheesemodule 3: salting cheese &amp; aging into a Camembertmodule 4: fermenting curd and making Pasta Filata cheesesThe course is demonstration style with class participation: students will observe David making cheese, learning about the various aspects of the make as the milk evolves into its final products.The class runs from 9am (EST) to 4:30pm, with a 1 hour break for lunch (12pm-1pm) and two 15 minute breaks.About David:David Asher is an organic farmer, farmstead cheese maker and cheese educator based on the gulf islands of British Columbia, Canada. David does not make cheese according to standard industrial philosophies - he explores traditional and natural methods of cheesemaking. David offers cheese outreach to communities near and far with the Black Sheep School of Cheesemaking.  Through workshops in partnership with food-sovereignty-minded organizations, he shares his distinct cheesemaking style. His workshops teach a cheesemaking method that is well suited to the home kitchen or farmstead production. He is the author of The Art of Natural Cheesemaking.

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One-Day Natural Cheesemaking Workshop with David Asher

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