Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles and Janet King have quietly created a broad series of supreme ewe and 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 allow, contented as well as filled with individuality-- no need to round them up at milking time, they hear Miles' voice and also come on their very own.
After years of hands on care, meticulous records as well as genetic studies, Miles' flock has turned into New Zealand's initial registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.
Today, Kingsmeade makes nine various varieties of cheese, the majority of from ewe's milk and also some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, ranging from aged difficult varieties to deliciously creamy.
Calmness as well as quietly spoken, Miles is hands-on from the first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the day-to-day milking, cheesemaking, cutting as well as packaging. Each set of cheese is hand made in the manufacturing facility on the farm, appropriate beside the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders all over New Zealand.