OWEN SOUND — Steacy den Haan knew she could learn to love making cheese the first time she watched curds emerge from a batch of milk.
“It’s magical,” she said during a recent tour of a gleaming, new, 640-sq.-ft. cheese plant on her central Grey County dairy farm.
“In the last stages, it’s really neat,” she said of the transformations produced by her craft.
“It starts going … kind of jiggly … we’re feeling texture; it’s about the feel.”
In commercial production since early July, Primeridge Pure Dairy Products is among a handful of emerging artisan cheese makers in Ontario. For Steacy and husband, Scott, the cheese plant also answers some of the business questions they asked themselves four years ago about how a young couple can overcome the significant financial challenges of starting a dairy farm.
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