Landaff Caerphilly Gets Off On The Right Foot

Doug and Debby Erb made a decent living as New Hampshire dairy farmers until 2006, when milk prices cratered. That's when they knew the milk from their 85 registered Holsteins wouldn't pay the bills, and they would need a new strategy for the farm they had purchased from Doug's parents more than 15 years before.

Like so many others in the same straits, they began to think about making cheese, but what kind? They knew that their town, Landaff, was named after a Welsh village, so Debby did some online digging to determine what cheeses might be typical in that part of the world.

A fine one, as it happens. Caerphilly, now made primarily in England, originated in South Wales, in the vicinity of Llandaff (the Welsh spelling).

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