Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles and also Janet King have silently created a broad variety of supreme ewe and cow's milk cheeses on their idyllic 30-acre farm on the outskirts of Masterton, New Zealand.
Kingsmeade started making ewe's milk cheeses with milk from their very own flock of East Friesian sheep. Clover, chicory, plantain and lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep are big, contented and also full of character-- no demand to round them up at milking time, they listen to Miles' voice and also begin their very own.
After years of hands on care, meticulous records as well as genetic studies, Miles' flock has actually turned into New Zealand's very first registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.
Today, Kingsmeade makes nine different varieties of cheese, a lot of from ewe's milk and some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, ranging from aged difficult varieties to deliciously creamy.
Calm and silently spoken, Miles is hands-on from the initial steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the daily milking, cheesemaking, cutting and also packaging. Each set of cheese is hand made in the manufacturing facility on the farm, best beside the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders throughout New Zealand.