Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles as well as Janet King have silently created a broad series of supreme ewe as well as 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 as well as lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep allow, contented and packed with character-- no requirement to round them up at milking time, they listen to Miles' voice as well as begin their very own.
After years of hands on care, meticulous records and genetic studies, Miles' flock has actually become New Zealand's very first registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.
Today, Kingsmeade makes 9 different varieties of cheese, the majority of from ewe's milk and some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, varying from aged difficult varieties to deliciously creamy.
Calm as well as quietly spoken, Miles is hands-on from the very first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the daily milking, cheesemaking, cutting and packaging. Each batch of cheese is hand made in the manufacturing facility on the farm, best next to the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders around New Zealand.