My name is Barbara Martin. I am a 3rd generation dairy farmer who married a 3rd generation dairy farmer 26 years ago. Our dairy farm is located in Central California. I am the very proud mother of 2 great college kids.I have begun this blog with one goal…to help put a face on the farmer. I feel that in our fast pace lives so many people forget exactly how the food they eat gets on their plate. I hope to help give a better understanding of our life and industry.
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Barbara,
I love your blog. You inspire me! I am the wife of a dairy farmer in Visalia. I came into this lifestyle pretty naive, and am now learning quite a bit! I stumbled upon your blog on cows and crops. You’re doing exactly what I’ve been wanting to do for a few years: put a face on the farmer. My husband is a 3rd generation dairy farmer, and his son is the 4th (Brooke’s family journal). We are in danger of losing our farm, and it’s just heart breaking. Thank you for calling attention to the injustices that are happening. Keep up your great work!
Julie Bakker
Hi Julie! Thank you. These are tough times but we have to keep at it! I will be sending out an urge to Congress to request for the USDA Cheese purchase for food banks. So keep posted so that we can fight this TOGETHER! That purchase can bring immediate help to our milk price.
Sincerely,
Barbara
Dairy Goddess,FYI
I recieved this from Greg Wickham from Dairylea here in the northeast. It is details about cold storage reporting your right it isn’t mandatory for most products. It is also state run. Products stored for 30 days or more are on the report.
Bryan Gotham
1) NASS performs the function;
2) All the leg work is done at the state level and “rolled up” to DC; the collection includes responses from all of the lower 48 states;
3) The state offices are responsible monthly reporting and for discovering new locations;
4) The survey respondents who normally store any product for 30 days or more in a refrigerated facility of 50 degrees or below are required to report information on all product in the warehouse; however, reporting is not mandatory for most products with the exception of cheese, butter.
5) This limits the response to locations that are true storage facilities versus just a distribution center or facility that caters to export;
6) The sample frame is both public and private facilities – a public facility has product form any customer – like Americold or Milliard or US Cold & a private facility would be a storage facility that is owned by a manufacturing entity such as a DFA warehouse attached to a plant;
7) NASS searches public lists of storage facilities, state licenses and trade associations to find new facilities – again this is done at the state level;
8) Stocks of butter, cheese, dry whey, and nonfat dry milk are mandatory under Public Law 106.532 and107.171. Butter and cheese are covered under Cold Storage. Dry whey and nonfat dry milk are covered under the Dairy Products report. The Cold Storage Report does not have an auditing mandate from Congress; if the industry wants this we should ask for it; however it will not be as simple as getting prices like the Dairy Product Prices report does – the population is more broad and diverse so it will be more costly and difficult; also the DPP is undergirded by both the legal requirement to report and the long standing legal requirement to report annually the pounds of dairy products manufactured (the Dairy Products Report – FYI the monthly DP Report is totally voluntary but all plant over a minimum size threshold are required to report annually and have been so for a long time)
9) Dairy Product Prices are audited – money was appropriated, a procedure was in place and the audit process is performed by AMS;
10)
Click to access ColdStor-08-21-2009.pdf
; – the web link for reports – if you’ve never seen one take a look there are many items covered;
11) For information on Cold Storage call David Colwell at (202) 720-8784
12) All commodities reported on the cold storage report are regardless of ownership or origin. In other words, we do not differentiate between commodities owned by manufacturer, producer, or retailer. Nor do commodities reported differentiate between domestically produced vs.
imported.
I have one more inquiry out to better understand the mandatory nature of the Cold Storage reporting. When I get that I’ll pass it on.
This is cut out of the last page of the Cold Storage Report
Reliability of Cold Storage Estimates
Survey Procedures: Questionnaires are mailed about the 24th of each month to all operators on the list of approximately 1,400 public and private cold storage warehouses. In addition, apple data are obtained from special surveys and other sources (State Departments of Agriculture, U.S. Apple Association, etc.). All survey data represent stocks as of the end of the month.
Data are collected from warehouses artificially cooled to a temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit or lower, and whose food products are normally stored for 30 days or more. All food items in these facilities are reported regardless of the number of days stored at the time of the report. Also included are specialized storage facilities meeting the 30 day requirement, such as fruit houses, dairy manufacturing plants, frozen fruit, fruit juice, vegetable processors, and poultry and meat packing plants. Excluded are stocks in space maintained by wholesalers, jobbers, distributors, chain stores, locker plants containing individual lockers, meat packer branch houses, and frozen food processors whose entire inventories are turned over more than once a month.
Estimating Procedures: Data for reporting firms are added to estimates for non-reporting firms to obtain regional and National totals. Estimates for non-reporting firms are obtained by multiplying the previous month’s figure by a percent change from the previous month. The percent change is calculated for each item from totals of the current and previous month summed from firms that reported both months.
Revision Policy: Data are revised the following month based on late reports or corrected data. Final figures are published in the annual summary in February of the following year.
Reliability: Reports are received from 900 firms each month which represent about 70 percent of the total capacity. Firms that are not on the list or firms who have never reported are not represented in the data. Monthly data can vary due to different firms reporting month to month. Survey data are also subject to non-sampling errors such as omissions and mistakes in reporting and in processing the data. While these errors cannot be measured directly, they are minimized by carefully reviewing all reported data for consistency and reasonableness.
This is a one page PPT slide from when we had a NASS person here in the office working on the transition from Dairy America and the requirement that DFA would report Dairy Product prices to NASS on NFDM. I asked him to make a few comments on the cold storage data collection.
Population all warehouses
Artificially cooled to 50 degree F or below
Stored for more than 30 days
Public and Private
Monthly Estimation Program
All plant data are summed to Regional and National totals
Non-Reporting Firms are estimated Elvin Hollon Director Fluid Marketing / Economic Analysis Dairy Farmers of America, Inc.
phone : 816 – 801 – 6422
fax : 816 – 801 – 6423
mail : Northpointe Tower
10220 Ambassador Drive
Kansas City MO, 64153
email : ehollon@dfamilk.com
Bryan, Thank you for your comment. Your information is pretty much what I had found out but I appreciate your time and clarity to explain it so detailed. Approximately 800+ storage facilities report and NONE of those have any type of audit function! Imagine how if each facility was off even slightly how that could indirectly effect our price! Dairy farmers seemed to be “dinged” for just about everything. For example fuel goes up, surcharge on fuel. Processors electric bill goes up, increased make allowance (being a bit sarcastic, I know) We pay into the CWT and other industry support??? Money directed towards the accountability of those reporting to NASS would be money well spent. Every other person/business is accountable for their reporting….I will continue to ask…Why not those reporting to NASS???? Let us work to get an answer to that question…it just does not make sense.
Barbara – What a great and VERY informative blog! I think it is wonderful that you are doing this. Keep it up!
Jill (Albers) Hettinga
Hi Barbara,
Was so nice to meet you this week! Great blog site. Have fun this weekend at the blog-her convention!
Take care,
Kristina
Really enjoyed meeting you! Hope to see you again soon!
I am looking forward to YOUR blog! Barbara
Dear Barbara,
I am preparing PR tearsheets for Issue 15 of our Progressive Dairyman magazine. Our Editor, Walt Cooley mentioned you in his editorial comments.
Could you please send me your current contact information so that I can send you a tearsheet of this article?
Thanks in advance.
Lisa Gibbons
Thank you so much Lisa you can reach me at my e-mail address tbtamartin@aol.com.
I appreciate it very much 🙂
Barbara
Thanks for bringing a face to the farmer! I myself am a farm girl… I grow Farm Fresh produce and have been selling at a roadside stand in Southwest Washington for the past 5 years. I love your videos! Thanks for sharing.
Hi Barbara-
I read about your blog today in the SJ Mercury. I’m a big believer in dairy products, but am otherwise not involved in dairies in any way. Still, I signed up on wordpress, just to ask you a question.
My boyfriend and I like to hike in the Eastern Sierras and, since I still work, we usually have to leave our homes in the Monterey Bay area in late afternoon and only arrive at our destination motel late at night. Thus, we often drive through the Central Valley towns after dark. We don’t always take the same route, but have noticed on two or three occasions that there is one dairy farm that keeps the cows under cover with inescapable bright lights. This seems to us to be pretty insensitive to the cows’ day/night cycle, as well as being unnecessary and unkind. Why would the farmer do this, we wonder. Does it increase milk production? But what about animal stress?
I’d appreciate your thoughts.
Thank you so much for asking the question! I think it is so important to have dialog so that we can explain different methods of dairy farming.
I believe what you are driving by is a dairy with a “Freestall” barn. Those cows are housed under those sheds to keep them from the elements. Those cows are fed in there as well. They have lovely bedding which is usually sand or similar. They lay down and rest as much as they like. Most have exercise areas and have a short jaunt to the milk barn. Cows are milked 2 or 3 times a day. There is different types of lighting that help with milk production generally they have 16 hours of light followed by 8 hours of continuous darkness. If cows are under stress or not rested properly they will not produce as much milk (like us humans). We spend most of our days creating our cows with the greatest of comfort. There is also different light levels depending on the time and dairy schedule. Those “bright”ones might be during the time they are bringing cows into milk at night and also for herd check to make sure the ones that are calving are not having difficulty or need assistance. On a light note….with the cost of electricity and our milk price…running those lights JUST for more production without their necessary rest…would not pay off 🙂 Again I thank you for the opportunity to clarify! Barbara
Barbara:
I love your blog. Keep up the good work in helping to educate the non-farming public. We and our cows (yes, our cows are happy, too, here in Wisconsin – LOL!!) appreciate anything that can be done to speak out about the plight and the lives of the farmers, especially in these trying economic times.
Barbara: I really enjoy your great blog and your promotion of the dairy industry. You are truly needed to get the word out.
Hey, please do me a quick favor? Please go to a blog that I am starting and become an official “follower.” You can click on the follow button and enter your first name. I need as many people as I can to be “followers” for professional considerations.
If you can please have EVERYONE in your office and at home do the same, it would be great! And of course you do not have to be truly following it, although it would be nice to have you drop in from time to time.
Thanks so much for your help.
Here is the link to the blog.
http://www.aginthewest.blogspot.com
With Kindness,
Patrick Cavanaugh
Good luck with the blog…I will be happy to support! We need all the help we can get!
Hi Barbara,
This is Lucas Smith from Osborn & Barr. I just wanted to say that it was a pleasure meeting you and your husband at World Ag Expo. Your blog and twitter page are awesome, I love the graphics!
Thanks for stopping by and keep in touch!
-Lucas Smith
Will do and thanks!
Hi,
I’m working on the restoration of the Octagon Barn in San Luis Obispo (see http://www.octagonbarn.org). The barn was built in 1900 as a dairy barn, when SLO County’s largest industry was dairy farming.
I’m interested in whether you might know of a history of dairy farming in the state, or in the Central Coast?
Thank you.
Hello B.K.! Actually Harmony has a nice site for the Central Coast history. For me (not just because I am of Portuguese decent) LOL but this book was done by a non-Portuguese and really nailed it. He breaks down the different areas of CA. and Agriculture/Dairy. Here is the link http://www.portuguesebooks.org/graves/theportuguesecal.html I have a copy if you do not wish to purchase. My son is studying in SLO (Cal Poly) if you would like he can get the book to you. I am so happy to see the restoration of the Octagon Barn. Preserving History is so important.
BTW when clicking on the link the couple sitting on the hay bales are my neighbors. They are still in dairy. They were just married in that picture and now have 5 children. I also give a perspective in the book as I grew up in LA county on our dairy. My pic is from the 1980’s LOL…it is a very nice book. Hope that helps!
Barbara
Barbara
I think you do a great job of putting the human touch and face to dairy farming with your blog here. I think this is a great way to combat the notion that dairy farms in America are nothing but “factory farms” that exploit cows.
As an ag journalist I didn’t always put the human face to my stories inasmuch as I think I was simply trying to show how important agriculture is to our economy and our way of life. So, kudos to you for doing this.
This kind of message needs to be touted better by the dairy trade organizations out there. After all, you’re selling a perishable commodity (product) to consumers; without those consumers you have no markets.
The competition for food products out there without dairy is pretty fierce, particularly in the fluid markets. What’s the industry doing to sell more milk to consumers?
Thank you Todd for you kind words. I actually have been at odds with my blog post regarding the convention. I have ALOT to say…too much actually. I am so frustrated with those who represent us. I have been screaming for unity of AG. Imagine if we were to take a “One for all and all for One” attitude. Within the “groups”, it is not happening. I think they like the seperation as with unity there is loss of power by some. Those that hold the power long enough believe themselves invincible so they do what is often “safe”….safe for them! With social media there is a way to unite. I have become in touch with corn,pork,beef etc. I would have NEVER known them if not for social media. I would like to see an AG ambassador, like Charleton Heston was for guns. LOL! We need to united. Teach our true ways to consumers not let our “leaders” run the agenda the way THEY want.
Barbara-
You’ve got a great blog. I’m relatively new to the farming community but the deeper I go the more fantastic it is. I recently made a short documentary about a family dairy farm in OH. I’d be curious to know what you think: tinyurl.com/grasstocheese. Anywho, keep up the good fight.
Sincerely,
Todd Tue
Milk Products Media
Hi Todd…. I LOVE this! Not only cause I love to see more red headed dairy farmers LOL but I too am in the process of making cheese. It is a big task but I hope to be selling by summer. I too have gotten tired of the processors and retailers taking advantage of us and having none of the risk. So this is my attempt to take a bit of control. Best of luck to the Nolan family…they are beautiful and I loved the documentary. I posted it also on my “dairygoddess” fan page on facebook. Thank you so much for your words and sharing!
Great blog!! (Are you sick of hearing that yet!?)
I’m really looking forward to following what you have to say!
Karlee Stevens
Alberta Milk
Hi Karlee…nope never get tired of hearing “great blog” LOL! Thank you so much! I look forward to sharing with you!
Thanks for the “great blog”! I LOVE love love your title art! Wherever did you find it? Dairy farming isn’t popular around here and it wasn’t ’till I started my blog that I found others “like me”. It’s great to see other women in ag and to know we haven’t totally gone extinct!
We often can feel like we are a rare breed…that is why social media is such a great tool for us to reach out!
Barbara
I read your Letter to the Editor in the Fresno Bee this morning, April 27, 2010 and was happy to see that someone else was upset by the Beakman Jax segment for children in the Fresno Bee, April 22, 2010. The question was asked, “How can a calf have a baby at the age of 15 months?”. Their answer was fine, however the segment went on to be very negative, full or errors and and written in such a way as to be distastful to any age of reader. I am not invoved with the dariy industry, and was distrurbed by their article. My hopes in writing to you is, that with your contacts, you would contact associations and in turn address Beakman Jax. I feel that they owe the dairy industry and their readers an apology and a correction for such pathetic journalism.
Suzanne Ward
Fresno Kings CattleWomen
Thank you Suzanne! How agriculture is represented by these false statements and supposed “jokes” is terrible. I believe that all of Agriculture must rally together to defend ourselves and correct the lies that are put out against us so that they can push their agenda’s forward. The damage, if we continue to allow this, can be the demise of our industry. Thank you for your support! I did send a message to Beakman Jax and have yet to receive a response. Barbara
Barbara
Ditto, I also sent a e-mail to the author of UCan Beakman Jax. We shall see what type of response we get. Suzanne
Barbra, you are a leader in the industry. If you have not heard yet there is a terriable video of and ohio dairy doing awful things to there cows. Please assist me in getting our leading industry organizations to publicy condem this treatment. We as and industry need to get out in front of this thing now.
Thank you Matthew! Yes I have heard of this video last night. I attempted to watch it but could not. I can not watch such terrible acts against animal or man.
Many of the industry leaders eg American Farmers Union, Milk Advisory Board, and most state boards have responded and will continue. Abuse is an ugly thing
in life but is NOT the norm. Most people realize that. I personally would like to use a “pitchfork” on them they way they did on the cows…I hope they go to jail!
Here is some great info on REAL dairy care!
http://causematters.wordpress.com/ please pass it around!
what happens to the calves produced on your dairy farm?
Hi Candice, We raise all of our female calves to then be part of our milking herd. The bulls are raised for breeding or for beef.
Great question from Candice. Does this mean you have a “closed” herd?
Our herd is 98% closed…almost 100% our goal!
Hey!! AJ gave us some of your cheese and it was DELICIOUS! Thanks so much! =)
Ohhhhh I am so glad you like it! Thank you!
Karen & I had a blast.. Thanks for having us at the Lemoore dairy and Cayucas. Good luck with the cheese room. I can’t wait for more cheese (and wine). Love you..
Love you too! Thanks for visiting the blog! 🙂
Barbara,
I live in Lemoore and pass Dairies all the time but I don’t know anything about them. What is the best way to get a tour of one? Do you know any that offer tours?
Thanks
Tom
Hi Tom, I am in the middle of preparing my cheese room but the best way to get tours is to contact Beth from Kings County Farm Bureau ( beths@kcfb.org ) . That goes for anyone…just contact your local farm bureaus if that is something you are interested in where ever you are! June is dairy month so there might be other events for dairy that you can attend in your areas!
Thanks for the question Tom!
I love your blogs,
i am a college student going into the dairy industry, i showed dairy cattle all threw out high school, i love dairy cows with a passion,they are amazing animals! little troopers 🙂
Why THANKS Bryanna! They are great animals! I love them so much!
Good luck with college…a great time!
Great blog! You should really start a facebook page for Dairy goddess! Check out The wife of a dairyman, I have her on my FB page. She has great stories! Great to see a local girl doing something like this though! Wife of a dairyman is from way up north so it’s a little different up there!
Good luck with the cheese! I can’t wait to try some!!!
Annie Dutra
Wife of a Dairyman is awesome. She does a GREAT job!
I do have a facebook page http://www.facebook.com/Dairygoddess
Thanks so much!
Hi there!
Love the website! I am an agriculture college student at Cal Poly, SLO. I belong to a club called the Agriculture Communicators of Tomorrow. I was wondering if you would ever consider doing a speaking engagement for our club? We’d love to have you come and speak with us! Again way to make the farmer a real person! Thanks!
Hi Lizzy! Thank you so much! I appreciate your kind words. I would love to come speak with your club. Since I started blogging and reaching out to put a “face on the farmer” I had hoped to get young people involved. They can communicate to their peers and know how to reach out to the younger people…”tweens” are a group we need to reach as they get fed so much in media that is confusing. They trust teens/young adults more…they are way cooler than myself! LOL….I will be at the Cal Poly Symposium. If you are there come up and introduce yourself and we can talk more about this! I would be honored to share what I know with your club.
I can’t be at the symposium unfortunately. Is there any other way to contact you?
Hi Barbara –
I found your blog on networked blogs and I just LOVE it. I am just getting started in the blogging world!
My grandfather built and operated a small (120 head) dairy farm here in central Indiana for over 50 years. My mother was raised on the farm and we used to visit often when I was growing up. My grandfather passed away last year and the milk barn has been closed. The pasture that once housed my beloved “Snoopy Cows” is now a field full of corn.
Your blog brings back very special memories for me. Days spent with Grandpa in the milk house, helping the cows give birth, feeding the calves with bottles, and having fresh milk for breakfast in Grandma’s kitchen.
My husband and I believe in the value of raising our kids in the country and have bought 14 acres to start our “farm” on. Although I don’t think we’re up for starting a dairy business (we have day jobs!), we’re exited to be here starting something!
Thank you for sharing your stories!
Christi Randle
Thankyou Christi for your kind words. There is not greater gift than the gift of happy memories.
I think it’s wonderful that you want to keep that lifestyle going as there is nothing quite like it.
Best of luck as you join the blogging world. I find it very rewarding and great therapy! LOL
As best to you and your farming adventure…it will prove that indeed!
Keep us posted!
Barbara
Hello Barbara,
Great job on your blog! I am also a farmer blogging to help teach people what it’s like owning a dairy farm. My husband and I have a centennial farm in Michigan.
My blog is at truthordairy.blogspot.com – please visit! Would you please consider adding me to your blog roll? Thank you so much!
Carla
Hi Carla, Thanks for stopping by! It too like your blog and will be adding it to my blog roll! Keep up spreading the truth!
Thanks for following my blog. Yours is great too!
Hi, I’m the community manager of the Dutch Dairy Council and wondered if you find some time enlightening me about the way American Dairy is promoted through social media and public affairs.
I will attend an International summit about that from 15.11 – 23.11 in SF and would be delighted to speak to you,.
Kind regards,
Evert Jan Koning
Community Manager Dutch Dairy Council
I would be happy to speak to you! Email me at tbtamartin@aol.com to set something up.
Barbara
Hi dairygoddess…I have a question. The dairies in our area are closing. Our friends are generational dairymen, they have lost their home and had a 3k head of cow dairy, now down to 80 cows. They have 34 people who are invested and stand to lose everything. the feed company has raised feed so high they cannot keep up. NOw they are in negotiations and the feed company are holding them over a barrel. Can nothing be done, are there no gov. bale out of a dairy? they sell their milk to Alta Dena who has been supportive but cannot feed the cows. What can we do, to get oats in those cows to produce? Help if you can. my email is fanning7@verizon.net email me if poss…I fell onto this blog and dont know if I can find it again.
Hi Barbara!
My name is Rachael, and I’m a second year journalism major at Cal Poly. I stop by your booth at farmers every week and came across your blog! For my agricultural communications class I have to make a video on a local agriculture professional. I would love to film and interview for my video if you’re up for it! The video would highlight the benefits of agriculture in the Central Coast and show people how fun and interesting it can be! If nothing else, it would be great PR 😉 Please email me or write back if you have any interest! Thank you!
Hi Rachael, I am going through my blog and am afraid I had missed this request. I am so sorry about that.
Let me know at tbtamartin@aol.com if I can still help you. Barbara
hi am a kenyan who really wants to venture in dairy farming.how can i get that breed of holstein dairy .
You can check with your local Holstein Association in Kenya.
They would ne happy to direct you.
Good Luck to you.
Hi Barbara,
I am new to Twitter. I appreciate your Tweets and Blog! A suggestion: Could you put a few more words in news-breaking Tweets like 4/9/12 tweet:
Barbara Martin @dairygoddess
#Dairy #Farms closing. Too much #milk http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/article/20120509/ROI/205090303 http://fb.me/1ghjy1leG
I totally did not SEE this Tweet among the 100’s I receive each day and then sent out a similar Tweet 1 hour after your Tweet. @FunWithBulls tweeted back that news of these closings was old news. So I looked back and saw your above Tweet.
Thanks for being a superTweeter/reporter,
@genojoan
genojoan@comcast.net
http://www.dairycrossbreeding.com
I will try… Twitter can be a challenge to me LOL…Thank you so much!
Hi Barbara,
I believe that this video would be of interest to you – if you could take a second to share something DairyCo have been working so hard on, that would be fantastic…
Imagine Life Without Dairy
Just stop, hold that thought for a while. What would the world actually be like? No lush countryside, no cows, no dairy. Nothing.
It’s quite a sobering concept isn’t it? DairyCo’s latest campaign is highlighting this very issue. At the heart of this is an animation that takes people on a journey from a bleak city scene to the good life in the country, and show the true value of dairy farming in all its glory.
The animation, designed in an original style that echoes a pop-up book, begins with a breakfast, incorporating all the Dairy products we know and love. It then takes us on a journey through the hustle and bustle of the city, transitioning into the fresh, crisp air of the countryside. This is a place where people can kick back and relax, and then the story unfolds into a dairy farm which is a new chapter of the book with a glamping campsite and finally, a farmer looking after his prime cow.
You can find the video and embed it into your site here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wZfOsE8dXQs
You can find the guide to city dwellers here: http://www.thisisdairyfarming.com/
About DairyCo
DairyCo is a levy-funded, not-for-profit organisation working on behalf of Britain’s dairy farmers. Our remit is to solve ‘market failure’ in the dairy industry – to tackle issues not currently being dealt with sufficiently to meet the needs of the industry.
Hi Gareth,
Thank you for sharing this with me. I am honored you took the time to do so. I have featured it in my blog. I hope you like it and share it with my brothers and sister dairy farmers across the pond.
Sincerely,
Barbara Martin
Dairy Goddess Farmstead Cheese and Milk
Bonjour Barbara!
Love your blog!
Thought you might be interested in this :
I’m trying to raise awareness for the mimolette, that funny looking and great tasting French cheese that is currently held at the frontier by the FDA for no (good) reason.
I created a facebook page, “Save the mimolette”, which has become viral in the last days, but mostly among French people, and we need American cheese lovers too!
Here is a post on my blog where I explain it
http://frenchandparfait.com/lafayette-come-back-and-save-the-mimolette/
And a story that was written on Yahoo http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/french-mimolette–the-hardest-cheese-to-get-your-hands-on-201743901.html
Thanks for your help!
Cécile
http://www.Frenchandparfait.com
twitter @frenchandparfait
instagram @frenchandparfait_
I hope they Save the Mimolette. Or as I call it Cantaloupe cheese 🙂 Why now? Silly! I have shared this also on my Facebook page! http://www.facebook.com/dairygoddesscheese
Good Luck…keep us posted!