CreamLine

CreamLine is a quarterly devoted to bringing small dairies together to share information and to facilitate the revival of the small local creamery. Though oriented toward small-scale commercial creameries, CreamLine has plenty to offer for non-commercial dairies as well, but tends to be on the technical side.

Current Issue -- #33 Spring 2008

Are Alternative Dairies Under Attack?; Raw Milk Cheesemakers' Association; Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund; Raw Cream is Living Food!; Chemistry of Cleaning and Cleaning Dairy Equipment; Farmstead & Artisan Cheesemakers' Training Manual (book review).

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The Home Dairy News

Especially for folks who are milking a cow or two, or who have dairy goats or sheep, but who aren't necessarily interested in going commercial, The Home Dairy News covers cheese, yogurt and other dairy foods, as well as the basics of keeping dairy animals.

Current Issue: Vol. VII, no. 2 (May-June 2008)

Washed Rind Cheeses; Health Awareness Seminar (Weston A. Price); Organic Milk from Pasture-Fed Cows Contains Higher Levels of Beneficial Nutrients; Cleaning Up With Dairy Goats; The Cheese Enthusiast -- Introduction

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Special Notice about The Home Dairy News -- Spring 2008

As of this fall, Home Dairy News will cease to exist and a new publication, The Cheese Enthusiast, will take its place with a new editor. Existing subscriptions will be converted to The Cheese Enthusiast when the transition takes place, but no new subscriptions to Home Dairy News are being accepted. The new editor, Susan Marquis, is working on her web site and expects to have her first issue out in September. Visit The Cheese Enthusiast web site.

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The Small Dairy Resource Book

The Small Dairy Resource Book is an annotated bibliography of books, periodicals, videos and other materials of interest to small-scale dairies. The major topics of this book are:

cheesemaking butter ice cream
other dairy foods dairy processing business & marketing
food safety dairy animals feeds and grazing

The appendix lists suppliers, consultants, dairy processing courses, related organizations, interesting Web sites and more.

The Small Dairy Resource Book is out of print, but is available online from Sustainable Agriculture Network. Currently the book is undergoing revision and updating, and will soon be available as an online database.

Click here for updates to The Small Dairy Resource Book. Unfortunately many web pages have been changed since publishing, and I have not been able to keep up with them!

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