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Beautiful Bovines
How Award-Winning Cabot Cheeses Are Made
Have you ever wondered how your favorite Cabot cheeses are made? Great-tasting food comes from quality sources, which are the beautiful bovines cared for by the farm families who own Cabot. Although the milk produced by their Holsteins and Jerseys...
Women Farming
The Face of Farming: Celebrating Cabot’s Women Farmers
In 1987, we proudly dedicated our original Visitor’s Center in Cabot, Vermont to Farm Women Everywhere, and even today, our appreciation has never been stronger. Like all farmers, Cabot farm women have a variety of roles on farms, and their...
Vermont Biking and Creemee Tour
Vermont Biking and Creemee Tour
“Can I get a maple creemee please?” If you crossed into Vermont from New Hampshire, New York or Massachusetts and questioned why folks are suddenly calling soft serve ice cream “creemees” - don’t. Don’t argue or question, just accept that...
Vermont
Vermont by Vermonters
We know what draws you to Vermont: maple syrup, skiing, foliage, and (of course!) the World’s Best Cheddar. Those are four pretty amazing things, and definitely worth the visit. But have you ever wondered what makes us Vermonters stay? There are...
Mountain Biking
Cabot Farmers Support Mountain Biking
Over the course of more than one hundred years working with farmers and communities throughout New England and upstate New York, Cabot has always strived to be more than just another company.  Connecting with communities through their support of schools, parents, and...
Whittier Farm Family
Our Co-operative's Awards
Before the awards. Before the grocery-aisle displays. Before the cool of the cheese caves. Even before the products—the best cheddar and cottage cheese and yogurt and clothbound and the rest. Before that, there was simply this: a powerful love for...
Woody Hills Farm
Woody Hills Farm Salem, NY
Change of Heart Mark Cary did not plan to be a farmer. He grew up on small dairy farm east of Saratoga Springs, one of seven children. “I knew I didn’t want to farm after long, hot days throwing hay...
Woodcrest Dairy
Woodcrest Dairy Lisbon, NY
 Woodcrest Dairy lies just a few miles south of the St. Lawrence River and the Canadian border, in the flat, fertile farmland of Lisbon, New York. The property covers nearly 10 square miles, and houses more cattle than the entire...
Wilcon Farm
Wilcon Farm North Ferrisburgh, VT
Ben Dykema runs the Wilcon Farm in North Ferrisburgh, Vermont, and its name is a combination of his parents’ names, Wilma and Cornelius. After emigrating from Holland and getting married in New Jersey, Wilma and Cornelius purchased the family farm...
Whittier Farms
Whittier Farms Sutton, MA
More Than Milk Since 1945, Whittiers have worked together to make good food for neighbors. In addition to their dairy herd, they run The Milk Store, which they describe as a 40-year-old, overgrown 4-H project. It has grown from a table under a tree piled with sweet corn to a year-round store bursting with vegetables grown...
Wheeler Farm
Wheeler Farm Wilmington, VT
Year-Round Schedule Rob and Karen Wheeler share the early-morning milking, which means being at the barn by 4 a.m. They don’t mind it though. “I appreciate the serenity, the peacefulness of the valley,” says Karen. “You’re at one with what’s...
Storm Field Swiss Farm
Storm Field Swiss Wappinger Falls, NY
Wappingers Falls, New York, is located along the eastern bank of the Hudson River, just south of Poughkeepsie. The village dates back to the mid-18th century, when much of the area was farmland. Today, due to the constant bustle of U.S....