Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles and also Janet King have actually quietly created a broad range 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 making ewe's milk cheeses with milk from their very own flock of East Friesian sheep. Clover, chicory, plantain as well as lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep allow, contented and full of personality-- no need to round them up at milking time, they hear Miles' voice and begin their own.
After years of hands on care, meticulous records and 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, many from ewe's milk and some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, varying from aged hard varieties to deliciously creamy.
Calmness and quietly spoken, Miles is hands-on from the first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the daily milking, cheesemaking, cutting and packaging. Each set of cheese is hand made in the factory on the farm, right alongside the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders all over New Zealand.