North Bay Dairy Women

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Valley Ford Cheese Company

Day #4 Highlighting Local Dairy Product Makers

Valley Ford Cheese Company

Valley Ford Estero Cheese

Valley Ford Highway One Cheese

Made by Karen Bianchi-Moreda

(a North Bay Dairy Women Member)

with milk produced on the family dairy,

Mountain View Dairy, in Valley Ford.

Dairy Princess Amanda Moretti & Alt. Samantha Spaletta

share the enjoyment of Valley Ford Cheese.

Thank you to Valley Ford Cheese company for generously providing their cheese for our sampling at the 2011 Sonoma-Marin Fair.

Estero Gold Cheese is an Italian farmstead style cheese, good as a snack or melted into pasta or polenta.

Highway One Cheese is a version of old style Fontina; aged for at least 80 days and was a bronze medalist at California State Fair.

It was a hit with the cheese tasters!

You can purchase Valley Ford Cheese at G & G Market, Oliver's and Petaluma Market as well as area Farmers Markets.

Check out their website at: http://www.valleyfordcheeseco.com/index.html

Monday, July 11, 2011

Wallaby Yogurt Company

Day #3 Highlighting Local Dairy Product Makers

Wallaby Yogurt Company

Organic Lowfat Yogurt

Thank you for sharing your yogurt for our sampling at

Sonoma-Marin Fair.

Dairy Princess Amanda Moretti & Alt. Samantha Spaletta

offer samples of Wallaby Organic Yogurt.

Wallaby Yogurt is in the style of yogurt made in Australia.

The milk is locally produced and the

product is processed in American Canyon (Napa Valley area).

Yummy!!

Susan treats youngsters to samples of yogurt.

Her family is a milk producer for Wallaby.

Visit their website at: http://wallabyyogurt.com/index.htm

Wallaby Organic Yogurt is available at Raley's, Lucky's and other area stores.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Nicasio Valley Cheese Company-Nicasio Reserve

Day #2 Highlighting Local Dairy Product Makers

Nicasio Valley Cheese Company

Nicasio Reserve

Thank you to Nicasio Valley Cheese for sharing your

Cheese for our sampling at Sonoma-Marin Fair.

Dairy Princess Amanda Moretti & Alt. Princess Samantha Spaletta

taste test Nicasio Valley Cheese!

Nicasio Reserve was a hit with the cheese tasters.

It is aged 3 months, semi-firm cheese and was a

Gold Medal Winner at California State Fair.

To find this cheese you can check their website:

http://www.nicasiocheese.com/index.html

Visit their store:

5300 Nicasio Valley Road, Nicasio, California

Thursday - Sunday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Or check your local grocery cheese section, including:

Oliver's, Whole Foods & Fircrest.

We suggest you try some soon!

Friday, July 8, 2011

Two Rock Valley Goat Cheese

Day #1 Highlighting Local Dairy Product Makers

Two Rock Valley Goat Cheese

Made by Don & Bonnie DeBernardi

Thank you to Don & Bonnie for sharing their

cheese for our sampling.

Many of the tasters were leary of trying a goat cheese, but all were pleasantly surprised at it's nutty flavor.

Dairy Princess Amanda Moretti gives out samples of Two Rock Goat Cheese while
Alt. Samantha Spaletta watches.
Don & Bonnie DeBernardi are Amanda's grandparents.

These two cheese tasters came back several times to taste
Two Rock Valley Goat Cheese!

Some of the places you can find Two Rock Valley Goat Cheese:

Local Farmer's Markets, Oliver's Market and Petaluma Market

Try some today!

Contact Two Rock Valley Goat Cheese at 707-762-6182

Thursday, July 7, 2011

2011 Sonoma-Marin Fair Cheese Tasting

On opening day of the 2011 Sonoma-Marin Fair, North Bay Dairy Women hosted cheese tasting in the Farm to Table exhibit building (Bev Wilson Hall).

Susan Bianchi worked with the fair and President Audrey Wheeler contacted several local cheesemakers. In all we served samples of seven types of cheese, sour cream and several flavors of yogurt.

All of the products were donated by the producer and we would like to thank them by highlighting each one, one per day for the next eight days.

The products we served were:

Point Reyes Farmstead Blue Cheese

Nicasio Valley Cheese Company Nicasio Reserve Cheese

Wallaby Organic Yogurt in several flavors

Wallaby Organic Sour Cream

Two Rock Valley Goat Cheese

Marin French Cheese Brie

Marin French Cheese Pesto Brie

Valley Ford Cheese Company Estero Gold

Valley Ford Cheese Company Highway One

Thank you to all of them for the generous donation of product.

There was a great response from the public and many pleasantly surprised at the variety of locally produced milk products.

So, beginning tomorrow, watch for photos and highlights of these local dairy product producers.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

June Dairy Baby

Each year North Bay Dairy Women present a gift basket of dairy products & "moo" related gifts to the first baby born in June at Petaluma Valley Hospital.

This year our Dairy Baby is Jasmin.

(Mom is not pictured for her privacy)

Dist. #3 Dairy Princess Amanda Moretti presented the gift basket.

Baby Jasmin was born at 9:58 A.M. on June 2 and weighed 6 lbs., 6 oz.

Princess Amanda even got to hold Dairy Baby Jasmin!

The nurses were also presented with a gift basket of treats.

Thank you to Cindy Bordessa, Princess Amanda & Bonnie DeBernardi for their help in making the 2011 Dairy Baby Presentation.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Bernice Hadermann Memorial Scholarship

Congratulations to Joe Stefanoni

2011 Bernice Hadermann Memorial Scholarship Winner

The Bernice Hadermann Memorial $500 Scholarship is awarded to a male student enrolled at Santa Rosa Junior College who is pursuing an education in an agriculture field.

The scholarship is presented annually at the District #3 Dairy Princess Contest & Ball.

Joe plans on attending Oklahoma State University in the Fall 2012.

His major will be Agriculture Economics with a minor in Political Science

Joe hopes to secure a job as a governmental affairs director for a non-profit, agricultural organizations such as California State Grange or California Farm Bureau Federation.

He has bee very active in local and state Grange Organizations.

Congratulations, Joe and best wishes on your bright future!

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Come try some local cheese. North Bay Dairy Women will be hosting cheese sampling at the Sonoma-Marin Fair Sustainable Ag Building today, Wednesday, June 22 from 1:00 to 8:00 PM. Thank you to the local cheese makers for the donations: Pt. Reyes Blue Cheese, Two Rock Valley Goat Cheese, Marin French Cheese Co., Valley Ford Cheese, Wallaby Yogurt Company, Nicasio Valley Cheese Co.