How Pineland Farms Creamery Became The Biggest Cheesemaker In Maine
October 26, 2015 | 1 min to read
It wasn’t that long ago that cheese aficionados in Maine were limited to American cheese and not-very-sharp cheddar, but these days cheese counters are packed with varieties of goat cheese, blue-veined offerings and aged cheeses of many varieties. And among those likely to be found in Maine grocery stores are the offerings of Pineland Farms Creamery in New Gloucester.
Just a decade after the nonprofit Libra Foundation started the creamery at the Pineland complex in New Gloucester, it has become the only Maine cheesemaker that competes on a national scale. You can find it in stores all over the eastern part of the country, and the creamery easily produces the lion’s share of all cheeses made in the state.
“We have the resources that allow us to compete with major players nationally,” Bill Haggett, the president and chief executive officer of Pineland Farms Inc., said this week. “We compete with Cabot [Creamery of Vermont], and we think that our quality is certainly competitive. As a matter of fact, we like our cheeses better than theirs.”
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